Achiziții de bunuri și contractări de servicii

Specific Procurement Notice

Request for Bids (Goods)

Country: Republic of Moldova

Name of Project: Fruit Garden of Moldova

Contract Title: Supply and installation of maintenance and service equipment for agriculture machines, for educational purposes, for the final beneficiary: Technical Agricultural College from Soroca, procured within the INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE component of the “Fruit Garden of Moldova” Project.

Finance Contract No: FI N° 83.887 (MD) Serapis N° 2014-0041

RFB Reference No:  TOOLS_SOROCA_2023B

1.      The Republic of Moldova has received financing from the European Investment Bank toward the cost of the Fruit Garden Project (in amount of 120mln EUR), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for: procurement of maintenance and service equipment for agriculture machines, for educational purposes, for the final beneficiary: Technical Agricultural College from Soroca, procured within the INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE component of the “Fruit Garden of Moldova” Project.

2.      The implementing agency/Purchaser - Consolidated Unit for Implementing and Monitoring the Wine Sector Restructuring Program (UCIMPRSVV) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Supply and installation of maintenance and service equipment for agriculture machines. Supply period is up to 60 days from contract award date. The Bidder must bid for 100% of requested items and adjacent services.

3.      Bidding will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the EIB Guide to Procurement.

4.      Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information and/or request an electronic copy of the bidding documents from UCIMPRSVV (PIU); Email: office@winemoldova.md. The Bidding Documents are provided free of charge (in electronic format) and shall be sent via e-mail, upon written request (to the email mentioned above).

5.       Bidders Qualification Requirements:

(i)Experience and Technical Capacity

The Bidder shall furnish documentary evidence to demonstrate that it meets the following experience requirement(s):

a) It should have been in operation for a minimum period of (past) 3 years (2022, 2021, 2020) being: a supplier of agriculture machinery or supplier of maintenance equipment and tools for servicing agriculture machinery/trucks/buses.

b) The Bidder shall demonstrate that it has successfully completed at least 3 (three) similar complexity/magnitude contracts (supply of agriculture machinery and/or maintenance/servicing equipment) of similar goods in the past 5 years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018).

Note: this documentary evidence can be presented together with the bidding documents, or within 10 calendar days after receiving such request from Purchaser.

6.      Bids must be delivered in a sealed envelope to the address below (1) at or before 10.00 AM, October 19, 2023. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected.  Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend in person, at the address below (1) at 10.00 AM, October 19, 2023.

The addresses referred to above are: (1) For bid submission and bid opening purposes, the Purchaser’s address is: Attention to: PIU Executive Director, Address: 18, Calea Basarabiei str., MD-2023, 2nd floor, City: Chisinau, Moldova. For bid submission: office # 2; For bid opening: office # 8.