Request for Bids

For

Supply and Installation of Vessel Location Devices

(EXTENDED)

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Maldives

Name of Project: Sustainable Fisheries Resource Development

Contract Title: Supply and Installation of Vessel Location Devices  

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

RFB Reference No.: (IUL)30-PMU1/30/2022/208

1.  The Ministry of Fisheries 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 and Installation of Vessel Location Devices.

 2.      The Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Supply and Installation of 200 Vessel Location Devices. Details of place of supply and delivery period/schedule may be seen from the bidding documents.

3.      Bidding will be conducted through international 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 12:30 hours of July 18, 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 12:30 hours of July 18, 2022.

7.      All Bids must be accompanied by a by a Bid Securityof of MVR 80,000 or US$ 5000.00 or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency.

8.      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.

9.      The address referred to above is:

Attention: Saaif Mohamed Saleem

Project Director

Sustainable Fisheries Resources Development Project

Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture

H.Whitewaves

Moonlight Hingun, Male’, 20025

Republic of Maldives        

Tel: (960) 3322328