Specific Procurement Notice

Request for Bids

For

Supply, Delivery, Installation and Testing of Laboratory Equipment

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Maldives

Name of Project: Sustainable Fisheries Resource Development

Contract Title: Supply, Delivery, Installation and Testing of Laboratory Equipment

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: D175 - MV

RFB Reference No.: (IUL)30-PMU1/30/2022/270

1. The Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Sustainable Fisheries Resource Development Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Supply, Delivery, Installation and Testing of Laboratory Equipment.

2.      The Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Supply, Delivery, Installation and Testing of Laboratory Equipment. Details of place of supply and delivery period/schedule may be seen from the bidding documents.

3.      Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” of July 2016, Revised November 2017 and August 2018 - (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

4.      Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture, Ahmed Yamin, [email protected].

5.      Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 13:00 hours of September 26, 2022. 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 on September 26, 2022 at 13:00 hours.

6.      All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of MVR 20,000 or US$ 1300.00 or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency.

7.      Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.

8.      The address referred to above is:

Attention:  Fathimath Azma

Finance Manager

Sustainable Fisheries Resources Development Project

Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture

H.Whitewaves

Moonlight Hingun, Male’, 20025

Republic of Maldives        

Tel: (960) 3322328