Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-03-26
Buyer: NPC ‘Ukrenergo’
Country: UA
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services

Technical requirements: Administration and the supervision of the 3 contracts for rehabilitation of the 9 substations with voltage class from 330 kV and higher.
Ukrenergo’s modernisation plan encompasses a total of 9 designated existing Ukrenergo HV substation sites located in Dnipro Power System of Ukraine.
Private Joint Stock Company ‘National Power Company ‘Ukrenergo’ (hereinafter referred to ‘Ukrenergo’ or ‘the Client’) has received a loan from the European Investment Bank – EIB (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Bank’). The Bank’s financing will be focused on comprehensive works for automation and upgrade of 9 330-750 kV substations in Dnipro power system of Ukraine. The main objective of the project is to increase the reliability of electricity transmission, improving the efficiency of the transmission network and reducing the costs of operating and repairing the TSO substations. The automation of the control processes at the substations will facilitate the parallel and synchronised operation of the power system of Ukraine with ENTSO-E.
The investments will be procured in accordance with the EIB Procurement Guide for projects financed by EIB and this procurement notice.
Ukrenergo and the Bank have now agreed that the assistance of an experienced and reputable consultancy firm or consortium of consultancy firms (the ‘Consultant’) is required to provide construction supervision services as FIDIC Engineer.
1) To supervise the civil works for 3 contracts (9 substation with voltage class from 330 kV and higher) as the ‘Engineer’ under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant&Design-Build (First Ed., 1999) Yellow Book;
(ii) by preparing of monthly and quarterly progress reports under the Project in accordance with the client’s requirements;
(iii) by monitoring and reporting on the conditions precedents to all disbursements and covenants effectiveness;
(iv) by reviewing and updating of the provided by the client generic Environmental and Social Management and Monitoring Plan (hereinafter referred to as ‘ESMMPz) according to the Bank requirements.
1) firm’s previous project experience in construction (or reconstruction) supervision in the capacity of engineer under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract during the last 10 years; firm shall demonstrate that it successfully completed at least two contracts with a minimum value of EUR 2 Mio during the last 10 years; (30 points);
2) firm’s previous project experience in construction (or reconstruction) supervision of TSO projects for 330 kV and higher voltage level during the last 7 years (30 points);
3) firm’s previous experience in projects of similar nature (construction or reconstruction of substations 330 kV and higher voltage level) (30 points);
(b) details of firm’s/consortium’s similar experience and related assignments covering the last 7 years and strictly related to the envisaged services, including information on contract value, contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided (if different from duration), main activities, objectives (maximum 15 references);
(d) EIB Covenant of Integrity duly completed and signed. Form is available under https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf. (please see important information under Section VI.3).
Submission deadline not later than 4 May 2021 at 10.00 Kyiv time. The expression of interest shall not exceed 30 pages, one file (pdf or Word). File size shall not exceed 5 MB. Expression of interest shall be in English. Translation in Russian or Ukrainian is desirable.