procurement notice

5964-GPN-36112

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

This notice is an update to GPN published on EBRD’s website on 31 May 2006.

Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare (KESH) has applied for and intends using the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) towards the parallel financing of the rehabilitation of six transmission substations crucial to the operation of Albania’s transmission system and to its participation in the regional energy market (“the Project”). This infrastructure development is part of an overall series of improvements needed in Albania and elsewhere in South East Europe for respective domestic purposes which will also assist the region to achieve greater integration with the EU as planned under the ECSEE Treaty leading to a single electricity market.

The proposed project has a total estimated cost of USD 52 million. The components to be financed are as follows, and will require the procurement of the following goods, works and services:

1. Equipment for 220 kV Elbasan 1, Fier, Tirana 1 substations and control, monitoring and protection (CMP) system for Fier substation.
2. Equipment for 220 kV Fierza HPP substation and CMP system for Fierza, Komani and Vau Dejes HPP substations.
3. Equipment and CMP system for 220 kV Burreli substation and 400 kV Elbasan 2 substations.

The Proposed Project would be completed by 30 September 2011.

Tendering for the Bank financed packages (packages 2 and 3 above) is expected to begin in the third quarter 2009. The Bank financed packages will be procured as single-point responsibility supply-and-install contracts with fixed price.

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 suppliers, contractors and consultants should contact:

OST- Operatori i Sistemit te Transmetimit
Mr. Elton Radheshi
Head of PIU
OST sh.a.
Bulevardi "Gjergj Fishta"
Tirana , Albania
Tel.: + 355 4 2220812
Fax: + 355 4 2220812/2225581