Date of award: 04/01/2017

Sector: Nuclear safety

Project Country/ID: - 17149

Tender and lot number(s): Project for construction of high pressure gas transmission pipelines with automated gas regulation stations and connection of the municipalities Panagiurishte, Pirdop, , and to Bulgartransgaz EAD national network

Consultant for design of gas transmission pipeline to Panagiurishte and Pirdop

Duration of the contract awarded: 14 months for Stage 1 (investment design) + 14 months for Stage 2 (designer supervision during construction)

Summary scope of contract awarded:

The objective for the consulting services is to prepare a Detailed Spatial Plan (DSP) and investment design for a gas pipeline to Panagiurishte and Pirdop, including all of the necessary studies and documentation for the subsidiary equipment and the linear section of the gas pipeline, ecological assessments (EIA and CA) as well as the performance in the name of the Client of the necessary procedures for approval by the relevant authorities under the Bulgarian legislation.

The scope of Services will be implemented in two stages – Stage 1 and Stage 2: Stage 1 - relates to the Consultant’s activities necessary to prepare the Detailed Spatial Plan and investment design for the gas pipeline to Panagiurishte and Pirdop; Stage 2 - relates to the Consultant’s activities necessary to provide the required designer supervision during the construction of the gas pipeline to Panagiurishte and Pirdop for the following subsites: 1. Transmission gas pipeline – linear part 2. AGRS Panagiurishte 3. AGRS Pirdop

Stage 1 includes the following tasks to be performed by the Consultant:

Task 1: Activities related to the Environment Protection Act and the Biological Diversity Act Task 2: Detailed Spatial Plan - Parcelling Plan Task 3: Coordination of approval process and obtaining approval of Detailed Spatial Plan Task 4: Investment design Task 5: Procedures related to coordination and approval of investment design, receiving of construction permit;

Stage 2 includes the following task to be performed by the Consultant:

Task 6: Designer supervision during the construction

Name of Tenderer(s) and combined technical and financial evaluation: Name of associated firm(s) / Sub- Name of Lead Firm / Country consultant(s) / Country

Gastec BG AD/ Bulgaria Povvik EAD / Bulgaria

Rap Systems Bulgaria OOD/ Bulgaria No

Tractebel Engineering S.p.A./ Italy Bulgaria Engineering EAD / Bulgaria

Geomarin EOOD / Bulgaria

Mapex AD / Bulgaria

Asprofos Engineering SA/ Greece Consortium member:

Bates Bulgaria EOOD/ Bulgaria

Nominated sub-consultant:

Tassi DD OOD/ Bulgaria

Gazoprojekt SA/ Poland No

The scores of the technical and financial proposals were combined and calculated in accordance with the methodology specified in the Data sheet of the RFP and the Consultants were subsequently ranked as follows:

Consortium Asprofos Gastec BG AD "Geomap Tractebel Rap Systems Engineering SA/ Name Bulgaria/ Povvik Bulgaria Bulgaria OOD Bates Bulgaria EAD Bulgaria Engineering" EOOD

Technical Score 86.16 93.24 92.32 82.08

Weight of Technical 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 proposal (T)

St 68.93 74.59 73.86 65.66

Financial Score 100.00 92.21 92.55 93.43

Weight of Financial proposal 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 (P)

Sf 20 18.44 18.51 18.69

Combined Score 88.93 93.03 92.37 84.35

Ranking 3 1 2 4 Name of Tenderers rejected and reasons for rejection: Gazoprojekt SA / Poland - The financial proposal of Gazoprojekt SA significantly exceeds the estimated total cost of Euro 480 000 provided within the RfP and the available financial resources.

Name of Winning Tenderer and Price offered:

Consortium Gastec BG AD – Povvik EAD

Registered address: , 5 Filip Kutev Str., 3rd floor, office 303

Phone: +359 2 4283 425 Fax :+359 2 9621 763

Price: 936 850 BGN