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, , , and to Bulgartransgaz EAD national network

Consultant for design of gas transmission pipeline to Razlog and Bansko

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 investment design for a gas pipeline to Razlog and Bansko, including all of the necessary studies and documentation for the subsidiary equipment and the linear section of the gas pipeline, 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 investment design for a gas pipeline to Razlog and Bansko;

Stage 2 - relates to the Consultant’s activities necessary to provide required designer supervision during the construction of a gas pipeline to Razlog and Bansko.

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; for the sub-sites: 1. GMS . Measurement lines for Bansko-Razlog 2.„AGRS - Bansko” 3.”AGRS - Razlog” 4. „High-pressure gas pipeline from GMS - Simitli to AGRS-Bansko and AGRS Razlog”

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./ Bulgaria Engineering EAD / Bulgaria Geomarin EOOD / Bulgaria Mapex AD / Bulgaria

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 "Geomap Gastec BG AD Bulgaria/ Rap Systems Name Tractebel Bulgaria Povvik EAD Bulgaria Bulgaria OOD Engineering"

Technical Score 85.58 94.18 87.4

Weight of Technical 0.8 0.8 0.8 proposal (T)

St 68.46 75.34 69.92

Financial Score 100.00 95.16 93.79

Weight of Financial 0.2 0.2 0.2 proposal (P)

Sf 20 19.03 18.76

Combined Score 88.46 94.38 88.68

Ranking 3 1 2

Name of Tenderers rejected and reasons for rejection: N/A

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: 786 770 BGN