Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-08-20
Buyer: Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning
Country: MK
Region: Pološki
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 24310000 | 24962000
Estimated value: 6717267 MKD
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Procurement of chemicals and precursors for the technological process in the waste-water treatment plant with 6-valent chromium in the village Jegunovce.
The carrier of the procurement shall deliver the subject of the contract at the following location: Jugohrom Ferro-alloys DOOEL — village Jegunovce.
The Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning has set as priority the settlement of 1 of the biggest hotspots of Vardar River pollution and this is contamination with 6-valent chromium (Cr6+) by the old industrial landfill in Jegunovce. The Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning is implementing the project ‘Protection of Vardar River from contamination with chromium’. This project is part of the programme for environment reconstruction in South-eastern Europe as segment of the Stability Pact. The treatment plant conducts treatment of waters contaminated with Cr 6+ in the vicinity of the village Jegunovce, collected by 3 individual systems, resulting from the former operation of HEK Jugohrom:
Treatment of waste-waters containing Cr6+ is carried out through technological process consisting of several chemical reactions. Under the agreement between MEPP and Jugohrom Ferro-alloys DOOEL from the village Jegunovce, 1 of the obligations of the MEPP is to cover the costs for consumed chemicals that are necessary for the technological process for treatment of waste-water containing Cr6+.
The main goal of this project is to provide continuous operation of the waste-water treatment plant thus ensuring continuous treatment of polluted ground waters, decontamination of contaminated soils in the surrounding of the village Jegunovce and preventing polluted waters from the industrial landfill (both ground and leakage waste waters) to run directly into Vardar River. This will prevent possible pollution of the springs of Rasche which is the main source of water supply for the City of Skopje. Continuous operation of the treatment plant will be secured only by timely supply of required chemicals for the technological process of contaminated waters treatment.
The location of the treatment plant is within the site of Jugohrom Ferro-alloys DOOEL — village Jegunovce, where polluted waters are brought by the 3 systems of different concentration of contamination. The populated place Jegunovce is located at a distance of 16 km from Tetovo and around 50 km from Skopje.
The treatment plant performs treatment of waters contaminated with Cr6+from the 3 systems. The main process of treatment is reduction of the toxic Cr6+ into significantly less toxic Cr3+ which under normal conditions forms unsolvable compounds that are not dangerous for the environment. The system of treatment of waters contaminated with Cr6+ consists of the following functional components:
Polluted waters from wells, drainage systems and landfill are brought to the equalization tank where diffuse equalization of concentrations of Cr6+in the water is performed. The pump abstracts water from the equalization tank and it is transported to the treatment plant for further treatment;
Contaminated water from the equalization tank is brought to reduction tubes. Depending on pH value, sulphuric acid is dosed so that pH value is maintained below 2,5. By measuring of redox potential, Sodium disulphide is dosed. Through this process, Cr6+ is reduced to Cr 3+;
Required costs for chemicals depend on the treatment of water/concentration of contamination. To estimate the costs for chemicals, the Final Report on ‘Protection of land, surface and ground waters against pollution with chromium in the surrounding of Jegunovce’ was used, ‘GIUGLARIS039 — Recovery — EAR-SK; EU FWC Lot 6 Environment’, prepared by the expert Mr Miroslav Chernak engaged by the European Reconstruction Agency, as well as the experience of ЕКОМАК from the operation of the treatment plant in the past.
— Publication of the contract notice regarding the data, actions or omissions to undertake actions referred to in the contract notice;
— Opening of tenders, regarding the actions or omissions to undertake actions related to the tender documentation, i.e. the tender opening procedure;
— Expiry of the time period for adoption of a decision for selection or cancellation of the procedure in accordance with Article 162 paragraph (2) of of the Law on Public Procurement (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia no 136/07, 130/08, 97/10, 53/11 185/11, 15/13, 148/13, 160/13, 28/14, 43/14, 130/14, 180/14, 78/15) in respect to the omission for adoption of decision for selection or cancellation of the procedure in the corresponding deadline;
— Receipt of the decision for an individual right in the contract award procedure regarding the determination of the competence of the requests to participate or the evaluation of tenders and the decision; or
— Acknowledgement of the illegal conduct of the contract award procedure, within a time period of 1 year at the latest as of the day of completing the conducted procedure.


Winner: Company for Construction, Manufacturing, Wholesale and Retail Elektrovodomont
Number of bids: 2