Contract Award Notice

1. The Republic of Tajikistan has received financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) toward the cost of the Wholesale Metering and Transmission Reinforcement Project. Part of this financing will be used for payments under the contract named above. Bidding was open to Bidders from eligible source countries of ADB.

2. The Joint Stockholding Company "Barqi Tojik" (“the Employer”) invited sealed bids from eligible Bidders for the Installation of 448 wholesale meters at 500kV, 220kV, 110kV, and 35kV levels including Current Transformers, Voltage Transformers, meter cabinets and communication equipment in substations (“the Facilities”).

3. International Competitive Bidding has been conducted in accordance with ADB's Single-Stage: Two-Envelope bidding procedure and was open to all Bidders from eligible countries as described in the Bidding Document.

4. The Contract has been awarded to:

Consortium JSC “Tojikgidroelectromontaj” (TGEM) Tajikistan and Ningbo Sanxing Medical & Electric Co., Ltd PR China

N. Huvaydullaev Street 377/1, 734060 Dushanbe city, Republic of Tajikistan

Bid Price read-out: US$7,791,042.44

Contract Amount after arithmetic correction: US$7,791,042.47

5. Other Bidders:

Shaanxi Coal & Chemical Industry Construction (Group) Co., Ltd. JV Xinjiang Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. (SXCCIC-XEPCC JV)

Unit 18, EE Court, FENGCHENG Eighth Road, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, PR China

The bid was considered incomplete and was not evaluated technically.

The financial bid was not opened.

TBEA Co., Ltd

Unit 18, EE Court, FENGCHENG Eighth Road, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, PR China

The bidder did not meet the qualification criteria.

The financial bid was not opened.