Tender No.: 414/2002 132KV XLPE underground cable between SOPAZ substation and R. PRENTZAS substation Successful Tenderer Brief Description of Contract Work 1. EXTENT OF CONTRACT - This turn-key Contract covers the design, manufacture, inspection and testing at manufacturer’s Works, packing for export, shipment, insurance, transport, customs clearance, delivery to site, complete installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance for a period of twelve (12) months of 132KV XLPE underground cable having 800mm2 copper conductors and fibre optic cables. 2. SHIPMENT - The port to which the equipment should be shipped is Limassol or Larnaca on the South Coast of Cyprus. 3. COMPLETION - All works under the Contract must be completed within 32 weeks from the date of Contract Award. 4. CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT - The Conditions of Contract will be the Electricity Authority of Cyprus Conditions and the Contract will be in conformity with the laws of the Republic of Cyprus and shall be governed by such laws. 5. PAYMENT - The work will be financed from the Purchaser’s funds and the Contract will provide terms of payment as quoted in the above mentioned Conditions of Contract. 6. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS - Unless another standard is specifically mentioned in the Specification, all materials used and provided under the Contract must, where such standard exists, be in accordance with the latest edition of the British Standards Institution, or the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) or the International Organisation of Standardisation (ISO) or in accordance with any of the recognised standards appropriate to the country of manufacture, which in the opinion of the Authority, ensure an equivalent or higher quality. All work assosiated with the Contract shall be executed in strict compliance with the Cyprus Labour Legislation, British standards or their European equivalents, European Community directives and approved Codes of Practise. 7. QUALITY ASSURANCE - The Tenderer must have an ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certificate issued by the Cyprus Organisation for Standards and Control of Quality, or any member of the IQNET or other Organisation accredited for this purpose by a National Accreditation Body. OR The Tenderer must implement a Quality Assurance system which ensures that the procedures, processes and other measures taken by the Tenderer are equivalent to the Quality System requirements specified in the ISO 9001 Standard. 8. CERTIFICATES - The Tenderer must furnish as part of his Tender: (i) Test Certificates establishing that the goods offered comply with the specified Standards and (ii) A valid ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certificate for the Contracting work to be executed, for the 132KV cable, for the duct optical cable and for the accessories. Also a valid ISO 9002 Quality Assurance Certificate for the cable warning tape and for the plastic pipes. The Certificates must be issued by the Cyprus Organisation for Standards and Control of Quality, or any member of the IQNET or other Organisation accredited for this purpose by a National Accreditation Body. OR A certificate, accompanied by the relevant Assessment Report, issued during the last 12 months prior to the Closing Date establishing that the Quality Assurance System implemented for the manufacture of the goods and services offered is equivalent to the Quality System requirements specified in the relevant ISO 9001 and ISO 9002 Standard. The certificate may be issued by the Cyprus Organisation for Standards and Control of Quality, or any member of the IQNET or other Organisation, accredited for this purpose by a National Accreditation Body. 9. EXPERIENCE - The Tenderers must have proven and extensive experience in the execution of Contracts of similar nature and value, home and abroad and must submit evidence that they have manufactured goods to the specified standards. 10. LOCAL INVOLMENT - The Tenderer must employ a local subcontractor to carry out the relevant civil works. The said subcontractor should be registered with the Cyprus Council for the Registration and Control of Civil Engineering and Building Contractors for civil works and be of the Class appropriate to the work to be carried out. 11. VALIDITY - Tenders are required to be held open for acceptance for 120 days from the Closing Date specified. 12. TENDER BOND - The Tenderers are required, as a security for the due performance of their obligations under the Tender, to submit with their Tender an irrevocable Bank Guarantee issued or confirmed by a local Bank carrying out full Banking Operations in Cyprus, in the sum of C£ 130.000 (One hundred and thirty thousand Cyprus Pounds). The validity of the said Bond shall not expire prior to 30 days beyond the validity of the Tender. The above shall be returnable to the Tenderers’ Bankers if their Tender is not accepted. 13. PERFORMANCE BOND - The successful Tenderer will be required to furnish a Performance Bond to the amount of 10% of the total Contract value. The said Bond shall be valid up to 12 months after completion of the Contract. 14. TENDER DOCUMENTS - Tender Documents will be available from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus as from 4 January 2002, upon payment of C£ 50 - plus V.A.T. for a set of 4 Documents. This payment will not be refundable. Where Tender Documents are to be mailed by the Authority abroad, an additional amount of C£20 - per set should be paid, in order to cover packing and postage costs. 15. CLOSING DATE - Tenders are returnable to the Head Office of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, by Friday 22 February 2002, at 12.00 noon hours local time. (Amended to 15 March 2002). 16. PUBLIC OPENING - The public opening of the Tenders will take place at the Authority's Head Office on Friday 22 February 2002, at 12.30 hours local time. (Amended to 15 March 2002). 17. GENERAL - The Electricity Authority of Cyprus does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender, nor will it be responsible for any costs incurred by the Tenderers in making their Tenders. 18. LOCAL AGENT - No more than two Tenders which nominate the same Local Agent will be accepted by the Authority. It is brought to the Tenderers’ attention that in case three or more of the Tenders submitted nominate the same Local Agent, then all these Tenders nominating the same Local Agent will be rejected by the Authority.