Tender No.: 390/2001 Erection of 132 kV Transmission Lines Successful Tenderer Brief Description of Contract Work 1. EXTENT OF CONTRACT - This Contract includes the erection and commissioning of 132kV transmission lines including foundations, tower assembly and erection, and stringing at various locations. The work does not include the design of the line (survey, profile, tower type and tower centre positioning) since this work is the responsibility of the Purchaser. All materials required will be supplied by the Purchaser and it is the Contractor’s responsibility to supply and use all required tools and equipment to erect the lines to the highest standards of workmanship and internationally reputable code of practices. A copy of the code of practice employed by the Contractor and a list of tools/equipment to be used shall be submitted with Tender. However all materials related to the civil works such as concrete, reinforcement steel etc and other minor materials (such as barbed wire, danger and number plates etc) shall be supplied by the Contractor. The Contract shall provide for all parts of the work to be completed in every respect for commercial operation to the requirements of the Engineer not withstanding that any details, required for the complete installation and satisfactory operation of the Plant are not specifically mentioned in the Specification, such details are to be considered as included in the Contract Price. The Tenderer shall sub-contract the civil works (excavations, foundations etc.) to a local Civil Contractor who is a Registered and Certified Contractor for Technical Works in accordance with the law of 1973 and its subsequent amendments regarding the Registration and Control of Contractors for Structural and Technical works. Relevant certificates shall be submitted with Tender. In case that the Tenderer decides to subcontract the tower erection to another Sub-Contractor the same requirements as applied to civil works Sub-Contractor shall be applied. Sub-Contractors shall be approved by the Engineer. Only one Civil Sub-Contractor shall be appointed for the whole Contract. 2. PROGRAMME – The 132 KV transmission lines must be erected, tested, and taken over within 18 months from the date of contract award. 3. 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. 4. PAYMENT - The work will be financed from the Authority’s funds and the Contract will provide terms of payment as quoted in the above mentioned Conditions of Contract. 5. 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. 6. QUALITY ASSURANCE - The Tenderer must have an ISO 9002 Quality Assurance Certificate for erection of 132 KV transmission lines 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 9002 Standard. 7. CERTIFICATES -The Tenderer must furnish as part of his Tender: Valid ISO 9002 Quality Assurance Certificate of the services offered 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 services offered is equivalent to the Quality System requirements specified in the 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. 8. EXPERIENCE - The Tenderers must have at least 10 years proven and extensive experience in the execution of Contracts of similar nature and value, home and abroad and must submit evidence that they have provide services to the specified standards. However, for the OPGW work 5 years experience in substantial lengths is adequate. 9. VALIDITY - Tenders are required to be held open for acceptance for 120 days from the Closing Date specified. 10. 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£150.000 (one hundred and fifty 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. 11. 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 taking over of erection of 132 KV transmission lines. 12. TENDER DOCUMENTS - Tender Documents will be available from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus as from 20 February 2001, 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. 13. CLOSING DATE - Tenders are returnable to the Head Office of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, by Thursday, 26 April 2001 at 12.00 hours noon local time. 14. PUBLIC OPENING - The public opening of the Tenders will take place at the Authority's Head Office on Thursday, 26 April 2001 at 12.30 hours local time. 15. 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. 16. 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.