Supply of public lighting
TENDER N° 08/VSARL/2019
BIDDERS’ PACK
Instructions
SUPPLY OF PUBLIC LIGHTING
Nature of tender : Supplies contract
Date of publication : 09/05/2019
Date of contract signature : 21/06/2019
Procedure : International open tender
1. Context
The Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) has concluded a management contract with VIRUNGA FOUNDATION, an NGO under British law, to manage the Virunga National Park. It is a "Public-Private Partnership" lasting 25 years (until 2040). This contract assigns two main missions to VIRUNGA FOUNDATION namely the sustainable management of the Park and the economic and social development of the populations living around the Park.
As part of this second mission, VIRUNGA FOUNDATION has set up the Virunga Alliance, a development program supported by the Park, but also and above all by public authorities, civil society and the private sector of the Northern Province. Kivu. This program is developed around three components: energy, tourism and agriculture.
In its energy component, the Virunga Alliance would target the production of more than 100 MW of hydropower (included in the priority action plan and the five-year plan for growth and employment in the province of North Kivu) through the construction of eight hydroelectric power plants. To date, the Mutwanga I (1.4 MW) and Matebe (13.8 MW) power plants are operational. The Luviro power plant (14.6 MW) is under construction respectively in Beni and Lubero.
To achieve this mission and in accordance with Congolese law that requires private companies involved in the electricity sector, VIRUNGA FOUNDATION has created the company VIRUNGA SARL, a private company specializing in the construction and operation of hydroelectric power plants as well as the sale and distribution of electricity in the North Kivu Province. VIRUNGA SARL is a private company incorporated under Congolese law in 2013 and wholly owned by VIRUNGA SPRL, a Belgian company. VIRUNGA FOUNDATION wholly owns the latter. VIRUNGA SARL acts under an institutional framework of the 25-year management contract between ICCN and VIRUNGA FOUNDATION.
In accordance with this contract, a 50% share of Virunga SARL's profit is transferred to the ICCN General Directorate in order to pursue the conservation objectives at the Virunga National Park and other parks in the country. The other 50% share is allocated to the Virunga Community Fund which deals with economic and social development around the Park. As a result, VIRUNGA SARL is a social enterprise whose purpose is not to enrich its shareholders but to realize its cause of conservation and development around the Park.
In accordance with the law, VIRUNGA SARL obtained from the competent authority (the Province of North Kivu) an energy production concession at the Matebe power plant and a distribution concession in the territories of Rutshuru and Nyiragongo. It has also obtained the Certificate of Environmental Acceptance. Over the past two years, VIRUNGA SARL has ecldistributed electricity from the Matebe and Mutwanga power stations to more than 5,000 customers in companies and households. All "low voltage" customers are prepaid.
Furthermore VIRUNGA SARL has obtained a distribution concession in certain districts of the city of Goma. These are neighborhoods that do not benefit from the electricity network of the main operator namely the National Society of Electricity SNEL. The concession area represents approximately 500,000 inhabitants of the northern districts of the city (Majengo, Kasika, Katoyi, North Mabanga, Ndosho) as well as in the Keshero district.
VIRUNGA SARL has also concluded an agreement with the Coordination and Management Unit of the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity, which manages the World Bank projects: "Investment grant agreement relating to the deployment of the distribution network and the connection in electric power of 6,000 households in Goma City and Nyiragongo Territory ". The construction project of this new electricity distribution network in Goma is co-financed by the European Union and the World Bank.
It is within the framework of the implementation of this project that this international open tender is published in order to find a supplier of public lighting for phase 1 of the construction of the electricity distribution network in Goma.
2. Financing
European Union and World Bank
3. Contracting authority
Virunga SARL
4. Brief description of the contract
The subject of the contract is the supply by the contractor(s) of Public Lighting equipment and material.
To be delivered: CIF Mombasa (Kenya) or DDU Goma (DRC).
5. Eligibility and rule of origin
As part of the co-financing of the European Union (EU) and the World Bank (WB) for the construction of an electricity distribution network in the city of Goma, participation in this tender is open to all natural persons who are nationals of an EU Member State or of a country eligible for the financing instrument for which the activity is financed, and to legal persons actually established there.
In submitting their offers, natural persons must indicate the country of which they are nationals and legal persons must indicate the country in which they are established.
Note that bidders must be compliant with all relevant national and local regulations in order to not face exclusion from this tender and evidence of compliance may be requested by the contracting authority.
The goods supplied under this tender - co-financed by the EU and the WB - must come from an eligible country as designated by the applicable financing instrument. When submitting their bids, bidders must quote the country or countries of origin of the goods offered.
6. Grounds for exclusion
Bidders must submit the signed declaration to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed in Annex 1.
Bidders included in the lists of EU restrictive measures (see www.sanctionsmap.eu) at the moment of the award decision cannot be awarded the contract.
The Bidders and, if they are legal entities, persons who have powers of representation, decision-making or control over them, are informed that, should they be in one of the situations of early detection or exclusion, their personal details (name, given name if natural person, address, legal form and name and given name of the persons with powers of representation, decision-making or control, if legal person) may be registered in the early detection and exclusion system, and communicated to the persons and entities listed in the above-mentioned decision, in relation to the award or the execution of a procurement contract.
7. Procedure and timetable
During this procedure, VIRUNGA SARL will openly publish the tender on www.virunga.org and www.mediacongo.org as well as sending the Bidders’ Pack directly to potential bidders. Each Bidder will have the opportunity to request clarifications from VIRUNGA SARL via email.
VIRUNGA SARL will treat all Bidders equally and ensure that any additional information relevant to the procedure arising as a result of requests for clarifications will be shared with all those who have received the Bidders’ pack, so as to not distort competition or have a discriminatory effect.
