G.N. 7489 Housing Authority It is hereby notified that tenders are invited for cleansing service contracts of the following estates:— Contract Tender Contract Number Commencement Number Estate Number of Units Date (1) Estate KS20130823 5,305 1.6.2014 (2) Lam Tin Estate KS20130824 3,044 18.6.2014 Forms of tenders and further particulars are obtainable from:— (1) The tender documents of the cleansing service contract for Shek Pai Wan Estate are available at the Shek Pai Wan Estate Office, G01, Ground Floor, Pik Long House, Shek Pai Wan Estate, (Tel: 2294 9008; Fax: 2294 9000). (2) The tender documents of the cleansing service contract for Lam Tin Estate are available at the Housing Department Lam Tin Estate Office, Ground Floor, Lam Tai House, Lam Tin Estate, Lam Tin, (Tel: 2769 8187; Fax: 2480 6270). Contractors on the Hong Kong Housing Authority Approved List of Cleansing Service Contractors are invited to tender. The above tenders are covered by the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization. Tenders consisting of the non-financial proposal, financial proposal and confidential financial information should be deposited into three separate envelopes and must be clearly marked according to the contract on the outside of each envelope. The three envelopes shall then be enclosed in a sealed plain envelope marked with the subject of the tender and addressed to the Chairman, Tender Opening Committee. Tender should reach the Hong Kong Housing Authority before 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 24 January 2014 in one of the following ways:— (1) be deposited personally in the Hong Kong Housing Authority Tender Box situated at Ground Floor, Block 2, Housing Authority Headquarters, 33 Fat Kwong Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong, or (2) be sent by post or courier to:— The Chairman, Tender Opening Committee, c/o Receipt and Despatch Unit, The Hong Kong Housing Authority, Basement 1, Block 2, Housing Authority Headquarters, 33 Fat Kwong Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong Late tenders or tenders not submitted in accordance with the requirements stipulated as above shall not be considered. The Hong Kong Housing Authority does not bind itself to accept the tender with the lowest contract sum or the highest scores or any tender, and reserves the right to negotiate with any tenderer about the terms of the offer. For those who are not on the Hong Kong Housing Authority Approved List of Cleansing Service Contractors but are interested in undertaking Hong Kong Housing Authority contracts, they are required to apply for admission to the List through the Hong Kong Housing Authority website. The registration procedures are available in the website at:— http://comis.housingauthority.gov.hk/ha/eng/procurement_2.html.

13 December 2013 D. W. PESCOD Director of Housing