INVITATION

for expressions of interest for the provision of

Grant 0622-TAJ Reconnection to the Central Asian Power System Project

Project

The Republic of Tajikistan has applied for a grant financing with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the implementation of Reconnection to the Central Asian Power System Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to pay for consulting services in project implementation period. The project consists of the following components:

(i) Installation modern relays, circuit breakers, instrumental transformers and ancillary equipment and systems for reliable synchronous operation at six 220kV and two 500kV interconnection points with CAPS;

(ii) To establish two new 500kV interconnection points with CAPS; and,

(iii) To provide capacity building to Barqi Tojik staff to improve reliability of parallel operations of Tajikistan power system with Uzbekistan and CAPS.

Consulting services

The Project Management Unit (PMU) of BT intends to engage a consulting company as implementation consultant (IC) to provide assistance with supervising and commissioning the project. Primary objectives are:

(i) Effective project administrative support for the PMU.

(ii) Effective design and engineering input.

(iii) Effective contract management.

(iv) Effective financial management.

(v) Effective quality control of materials, equipment, systems, software and communications.

(vi) Effective management of relay protection system installation, testing, commissioning, handover and guarantee.

(vii) Assistance in reporting that complies with ADB and government.

(viii) Effective environmental and social management and reporting

(ix) Capacity enhancement of PMU.

All consultants financed by the project will be selected and engaged to work in accordance with ADB procurement policy 2017(as amended from time to time), and Procurement Regulations for ADB Borrowers 2017(as amended from time to time) as per the quality-cost method of selection (QCBS) using weightage ratio of technical: financial (90:10).

Expression of Interest

Consulting companies from countries that are members of the ADB may submit relevant documents, which will be the basis for subsequent evaluation and a short list of participants. Expressions of interest should be submitted to the address below or through link: https://selfservice.adb.org/OA_HTML/adb/xxcrs/jsp/ADBCsrnFwd.jsp?sel=148768 not later than 3 March 2019, 15:00 PM Dushanbe Local Time.

Consulting companies must provide, its expression of interest using the latest form in CMS link https://selfservice.adb.org/OA_HTML/adb/xxcrs/jsp/ADBCsrnFwd.jsp?sel=148768. Invitation to submit full technical and price proposals (Request for Proposal) will be prepared for the companies included in the short list. OSHC "Barqi Tojik" / SE "PMUES" reserve the right, without explanation, to include or not include in the short list of any or all of the companies that submitted their expressions of interest.

For more information, you may refer to:

State Establishment "Project Management Unit for Electro-energy sector"

Mr. Nazar Nazarzoda - Executive Director of SE "PMUES"

Kahorov 39 A St., 734042, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Fax: +992 37 222 25 56; Tel: +992 37 222 25 56;

E-mail: pmu_tj@mail.ru