Request for Bids for Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of an 8 MW DC / 6.8 MW AC Solar PV Power Plant with 20 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System including 5 km of 33 kV Evacuation line for Awdal Electric Company (AEC): Borama, Somaliland.

Request for Bids

Plant
Design, Supply, Installation, Testing and Commissioning

(Two-envelope Bidding Process, Without Prequalification)

Employer: Ministry of Energy and Minerals

**Project:**Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project “SESRP”

Contract title: Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of an 8 MW DC / 6.8 MW AC Solar PV Power Plant with 20 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System including 5 km of 33 kV Evacuation line for Awdal Electric Company (AEC):  Borama, Somaliland.

Country: Government of Somaliland

Loan No. /Credit No. / Grant No.: D9310

RFB No: SO-MOEM-445086-CW-RFB

1.    The Government of Somaliland has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of an 8 MW DC / 6.8 MW AC Solar PV Power Plant with 20 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System including 5 km of 33 kV Evacuation line for Awdal Electric Company (AEC):  Borama, Somaliland. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.

2.    The Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Somalilandnow invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of an 8 MW DC / 6.8 MW AC Solar PV Power Plant with 20 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System including 5 km of 33 kV Evacuation line for Awdal Electric Company (AEC):  Borama, Somaliland. as per details below. The duration of the contract will be 15 months from the Effective Date of the contract. 

3.     Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) with Rated Criteria as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” dated February  2025 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations. 

4.     Bids will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation process set out in the bidding documents. The following weightings shall apply for Rated Criteria (including technical and non-price factors): [80%] and for Bid cost: [20%].

Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Project Coordinator, Project Implementation Unit, Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Somaliland via e-mail address: [email protected], and copy [email protected],   and inspect the bidding document during office hours 8:00 am to 4:00pm local time at the address given below.

6.  The bidding document in English may be obtained free of charge by the interested eligible bidders from the website https://moem.govsomaliland.org// or can be obtained upon submission of a written application to the address below. 

7.  A pre-bid conference shall be conducted virtually by the Employer, the Ministry of Energy on 14 May 2025 at 9:30 Am Hargeisa, Local Time. No site visits shall be organized by the employer, but bidders are encouraged to make site visits to familiarize themselves with the scope of work envisaged.

8.    Bids must be delivered to the address on or before **14 June, 2025, 9:30 Am Hargeisa Local Time.**Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. The outer Bid envelopes marked “ORIGINAL BID”, and the inner envelopes marked “TECHNICAL PART” will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on 14 June 2025, at 10:00 Am Hargeisa Local time. All envelopes marked “FINANCIAL PART” shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Employer until the second public Bid opening. 

9.    Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration, using the form included in the Section IV Bidding form.

Note: the documents are two volumes: please make sure to download both volumes as follows:   

                                           1. RFB AEC -Volume-I
2. RFB AEC -Volume-II

Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of an 8 MWpDC / 6.8 MW AC Solar PV Power Plant with 20 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System including 5 km of 33 kV Evacuation line for Awdal Electric Company (AEC): Borama, Somaliland.

10.   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.

11. The address(es) referred to above is (are):

Interim Project Coordinator,

Project Implementation Unit “PIU” Office,

Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project,

Ministry of Energy and Minerals,

Mujahid Lixle Rd, Next to Ministry of Commerce

26 June District, Hargeisa Somaliland

Tel Number: +252 634187118

Email address [email protected]Copy: [email protected]  

                Web page:   https://moem.govsomaliland.org/ .