Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-10-24
Buyer: SCE “Kostanay Heat and Power Company”
Country: KZ
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2017-11-22

Technical requirements: This Invitation for Expression of Interest follows the updated General Procurement Notice 8853-GPN-47396 for this project which was published on 16 October 2017 on the website of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - www.ebrd.com
The State Communal Enterprise “Kostanay Heat and Power Company” (hereinafter called the “Company”), a state-owned municipal district heating company incorporated in the City of Kostanay, has received financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “Bank”) in the form of a loan toward the cost of the Kostanay District Heating Project.
The Company intends using part of the proceeds of the loan towards the cost of the contract for development and implementation of the hydraulic modelling system for the Company’s DH network in the City of Kostanay.
The Company is seeking to engage a qualified Consultant to assist in whole complex of works for digital map and hydraulic modelling of district heating system in the City of Kostanay.
Assignment Start Date and Duration: it is anticipated that the assignment will start in January 2018 and will have an overall duration of approximately 14 months.
The Consultant should be a firm or a consortium of firms with competence and substantive experience in heat supply and with clear understanding of features of design and construction works in the region. The Consultant should have:
- expertise and experience in development of computer models and hydraulic simulation of heating systems;
- expertise and experience of work on similar assignments in the CIS countries, preferably in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Consultant is required to provide independent, impartial technical, cost, management, financial and legal advice, and as such will not be permitted to have a commercial interest in any other contracts or agreements related to the Project.
The Consultant’s team shall include at least the following specialists with engineering and technical expertise and experience in hydraulic simulation and heating system analysis, and with at least 10 years of general experience and 5 years of experience specific to the position they are nominated for:
Interested consultants are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest. In order to determine the qualifications and competence of consulting firms seeking to be shortlisted, the information submitted should include the following:
• details of similar experience of firm or group of firms and related assignments undertaken in the previous five years, including information on contract value, contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided, assignment budget, percentage carried out by the Consultant in case of association of firms or subcontracting, main activities, objectives;
• CVs of key experts who could carry out the assignment detailing qualifications, experience in similar assignments, particularly assignments undertaken in the previous five years, including information on contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided, assignment budget, main activities, objectives.
One original and two copies of the expression of interest, in English and in Russian, shall be submitted to the Client in an envelope marked “EXPRESSION OF INTEREST for Kostanay District Heating Project – Development of Digital Map and Hydraulic Model of District Heating System” to reach the Client not later than 22 November 2017 at 17:00 local Kostanay time. Late submissions might be rejected.
EBWE - Erstellung einer digitalen Karte und eines hydraulischen Modells für das Fernwärmesystem (KZ-Kostanay)