procurement notice

5707-GPN-36204

This is an updated GPN first published in August 2005

CET Colterm S.A. (“Colterm” or the “Company”), the district heating company owned by the City of Timisoara, has applied for a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “Bank”) for the modernisation of the municipal district heating system. The Company intends using the proceeds of the loan for the installation of new gas and steam turbines with hot water recovery boilers for cogeneration of heat and electricity of 20 MW gross electricity production with a 29 MW thermal output and for district heating and corporate management consultants. Colterm will be the implementing agency.
The proposed project, which has a total estimated cost of EURO 22.5 million, will require the procurement of works and services for the following components:

(a) Erection, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contract;

(b) procurement and implementation supervision (already contracted);

(c) corporate development programme (already contracted)

Contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank will be subject to the Bank's Procurement Policies and Rules and will be open to firms from any country. The proceeds of the Bank's loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, of for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations or under a law of official regulation of the Purchaser's country.
Interested contractors and consultants should contact:

Aurel Matei
Deputy General Manager
Colterm S.A.
Str. Ep. Joseph Lonovici nr. 4
300092, Timisoara
Romania
Tel: 0040 256 434 614
Fax: 0040 256 431 616
Email: aurel.matei@colterm.ro

This notice refers to goods, works, services or consultancy services to be procured through open and competitive tendering for projects financed by the EBRD. Potential tenderers desiring additional information on the procurement in question or the project in general should, unless indicated otherwise, contact the project agency and not the EBRD.