"Tender No.: 394/2001 XLPE Underground Cables Successful Tenderer Brief Description of Contract Work 1. EXTENT OF CONTRACT - The Contract includes the manufacture, inspection and testing at manufacturer’s Works, packing for export shipment and delivery CFR Limassol or Larnaca, Cyprus, of the following XLPE cables: GROUP I Item No. Quantity in km Short Description 1 26 70 sq.mm. 3½ - core Al. cable 600/1000V 2 140 185 sq.mm. 3½ - core Al. cable 600/1000V 3 180 300 sq.mm. 3½ - core Al. cable 600/1000V 4 16 500 sq.mm. 1-core Cu. cable 600/1000V 5 300 25 sq.mm. 2-core Al. cable 600/1000V GROUP II Item No. Quantity in km Short Description 6 380 185 sq.mm. 1-core Al. cable 11.000V 7 900 300 sq.mm. 1-core Al. cable 11.000V 8 10 630 sq.mm. 1-core Cu. cable 11.000V 9 6 3x(1x185) sq.mm. Al. cable 11.000V 10 6 3x (1x185) sq.mm. Cu. cable 11.000V 2. SHIPMENT - The port to which the cables should be shipped is Limassol or Larnaca on the South Coast of Cyprus. 3. DELIVERY - The cables are required to be delivered in four consignments. The first consignment must be delivered in 4 months from Contract award, the second in March 2002,the third in September 2002 and the fourth in Μarch 2003.The Authority reserves the right to change the quantity and date of delivery of each consignment by giving 6-month notice to the Contractor. 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 Authority’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. 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) Type Test Certificates establishing that the goods offered comply with the specified Standards. (ii) A valid ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certificate of the goods 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 manufacture of the goods offered is equivalent to the Quality System requirements specified in the ISO 9001 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 at least 10 years of experience in the design and manufacture of XLPE cables. They must also 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. VALIDITY - Tenders are required to be held open for acceptance for 120 days from the Closing Date specified. 11. 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 Group I C£ 80.000 (eighty thousand Cyprus Pounds) Group II C£200.000 (two hundred thousand Cyprus Pounds) It is clarified that Tenderers offering both Groups may submit one Tender Security in the total amount of C£280.000 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. 12. PERFORMANCE BOND - The successful Tenderer will be required to furnish an irrevocable Performance Bond to the amount of 10% of the total Contract value. The said Bond shall be valid up to 18 months after delivery of the cables. 13. TENDER DOCUMENTS - Tender Documents will be available from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus as from 12 March 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. 14. CLOSING DATE - Tenders are returnable to the Head Office of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, by Friday 27 April 2001, at 12.00 hours noon local time. 15. PUBLIC OPENING - The public opening of the Tenders will take place at the Authority's Head Office on Friday 27 April 2001, at 12.30 hours local time. 16. AWARD - Each Group of items will be adjudicated and awarded separately. 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 Tender. 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."