Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-31
Buyer: ESO EAD - Elektroenergien Sistemen Operator EAD
Country: BG
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30210000 | 48000000 | 72000000 | 72300000
Submission deadline: 2017-07-07

Technical requirements: EBGU - Implementering af datacenter for retablering efter katastrofer ved det nationale ekspeditionscenter (BG-Sofia)
This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project which was published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices, on March 31, 2014 and updated on 20 January 2017.
Elektroenergien Sistemen Operator EAD – ESO EAD, hereinafter referred to as the “Employer” has received a grant from Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund (the “KIDSF”), administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “Bank”) towards the cost of the Project „Implementation of disaster recovery data centre for National Dispatch Centre (NDC)” of ESO.
The Employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following Contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the grant:
Procurement, installation and commissioning of a new Disaster Recovery Data Centre for NDC, including the necessary software, hardware and engineering services for system deployment, parameterisation and training of operational and maintenance personnel. The project will also include engineering, deployment, setup and commissioning of IT infrastructure in both the primary data centre in Sofia and the backup data centre in Plovdiv.
To be qualified for award of Contract, Tenderers must satisfy the qualification requirements set forth in the Tender Documents.
The contract financed with the proceeds of KIDSF Grant will be subject to the Bank's Procurement Policies and Rules and will be open to firms from any country. The proceeds of the KIDSF Grant will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or 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 or official regulation of the Employer's country.
Tender documents may be obtained from the address below upon payment of a non-refundable fee of EUR 50 (fifty euro) or equivalent in BGN:
Upon request, the documents will be promptly despatched by courier, but no liability can be accepted for loss or late delivery.
If requested the documents can also be dispatched electronically after the presentation by the prospective tenderer of appropriate evidence of payment of the non-refundable fee. In the event of discrepancy between electronic and hard copies of the documents, the hard copy shall prevail.
All tenders must be accompanied by a Tender Security of EUR 65,000.00 (sixty five thousand euro) or its equivalent in a convertible currency.
The Tenders must be delivered to the address below on or before 07.07.2017, 14:00 local time, at which time they will be opened in the presence of the tenderers’ representatives who wish to attend.
Prospective tenderers may obtain further information from, and inspect and acquire the tender documents at the following office:
EBWE - Einrichtung eines Datenwiederherstellungszentrums für das staatliche Lieferzentrum (NDC) (BG-Sofia)
This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project which was published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices, on March 31, 2014 and updated on 20 January 2017.