Request for Bids, Small Works

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Republic of Moldova

Name of Project: Fruit Garden of Moldova

Contract Title: Works for Installation (in the existing building) of a cold storage room for agricultural products

Final beneficiary: National Centre for Seed Research and Production/ CNCPS (Pascani vill, Criuleni district)

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

RFB Reference No.:  COLDROOM_CNCPS_2025B

Date: July 18, 2025

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 provision of: Works for Installation of a cold storage room for agricultural products for the National Centre for Seed Research and Production (Pascani village, Criuleni district), from Moldova. The works are procured within the INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE component of “Fruit Garden of Moldova” Project.

2. The implementing agency/ Employer - Consolidated Unit for Implementing and Monitoring the Wine Sector Restructuring Program (UCIMPRSVV) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for provision of Works for Installation (in the existing building) of a cold storage room for agricultural products for the National Centre for Seed Research and Production from Moldova (Pascani village, Criuleni district). Contract implementation period is up to 7 months from contract award date. Bids shall be valid for 120 calendar days since bids submission deadline date.

3. Bidding will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding using a Request for Bids (RFB) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the EIB Guide to Procurement (https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf ).

4. The Bidder shall furnish documentary evidence that it meets the following Qualification Requirements (complete list of qualification requirements are in the tender documents):

Financial Situation:

 (i) The Bidder shall submit the audited financial statements, acceptable to the Employer, for the last 2 years (2024, 2023), that must demonstrate the current soundness of the Bidder’s financial position and indicate its prospective long-term profitability and that it has adequate sources of finance to meet the cash flow requirements on works currently in progress and for future contract commitments.

Experience:

(i) Experience for construction of cold storage refrigerators contracts in the role of prime contractor starting with 1^st January 2021.

(ii) A minimum number of 3 cold storage refrigerators construction contracts that have been satisfactorily and substantially completed as a prime contractor starting 1^st January 2021, each of minimum value of 3 mln MDL (or equivalent in EUR / USD);

5. Interested eligible Bidders may request an electronic copy of the bidding documents from: UCIMPRSVV, Attn. Procurement Department; 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 e-mail mentioned above). Firms originating from all countries of the world are eligible to submit bids under this RfB.

Bids must be delivered, in a sealed envelope, on or before hour 13.00, July 31, 2025, to the following address:UCIMPRSVV, Procurement Department, 18 Calea Basarabiei str. (yellow building), MD-2023, 2^nd floor, City: Chisinau; Moldova.

6. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below at hour 00, July 31, 2025.

7. All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the amount of 40.000,00 MDL (or equivalent in EUR or USD). Bid Security validity must be minimum 28 days after the end of bids validity period.