The Islamic Republic ofIran

Invitation for Bids (IFB)

Northern Cities Water Supply and SanitationProject 

Loan No. 4783-IRN

ANZALI WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM

Eastern Area Main Pumping Station & Transmission Line  "AWW8/10"

This notice was published in the WB Operations Portal, dgMarket &UNDB on June 24, 2010. The deadline is changed fromAugust 10, 2010 to August 17, 2010.

1.   This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Projectthat appeared in Development Business  on-line on 21 Sep.2005 and in Digimarket on 19 Sep. 2005

2.     TheIslamic Republic of Iran   has received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment toward the cost of Northern Cities Water   Supply and Sanitation project, and it intends toapply part of the proceeds of this loan   to payments under the contract AWW8/10 for the construction of Anzali Wastewater Collection System Eastern Area Main PumpingStation.  The loan closing date is December31,2010.

3.   The Guilan Water & Wastewater Company now invites sealed bids fromeligible and qualified bidders for the construction of Main Pumping Station along with building of electrical installations,guard house, site civil works as well as execution of approximately 4km of pumping line with a diameter of 800mm and gravitytransmission line with a diameter of 1200mm of GRP pipes.   The delivery/construction period is 610 days.

4.   Bidding will be conducted through the International Competitive Bidding (ICB)procedures specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDACredits, and is open to all bidders from Eligible Source Countries as defined in the Bidding Documents.

5    Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from IRANAB  Consulting Engineers and inspect the bidding documents at the address (10.1) given below from 9:00 am to 16:00 pm local time fromSaturdayto Wednesday.

6.  Qualifications requirements include:

-The minimum required annual volume of construction work forthe successful Bidder in average of the last five successive years should be 110,000 million Rials, or 11 million USD(Eleven million USD).

- The minimum amount of liquid assets and/or creditfacilities net ofother contractual commitments of the successful Bidder shall be 19,000 million Iranian Rials or 1.9million USD $.

-Experience as prime contractor in the construction of atleast two works of a nature and complexity equivalent to the works over the last 5 years.

-A margin of preference for eligible nationalcontractors/joint ventures shall not be applied.

-Iranian bidders must submit evidence of their President Deputy Strategic Planing and Control (SPAC)Grade 2 for Water Works & 3 for Equipment & Installation works.

7. A completeset of Bidding Documents in English and Farsi may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written application tothe address (10.1) below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of 3,500,000 Rials (Three million five hundred IranianRials) or 350 USD (Three hundred fifty USD). Themethod of payment will be cash or direct deposit to account number 136-2-3784129-1 Eghtesad Novin Bank Shariati-Mirdamad Tehran,branch No.136 in name of Iranab Consulting Engineers, for both local currency and USD. The Bidding Document will be sent by expressmail or alternatively may be picked up at address below on interested bidder's discretion.

8.   Bids must be delivered to the address (10.2) below at or before   10:30 am of 17 Aug. 20 10 . Electronic bidding "shall not" bepermitted. Late bids will be rejected.   Bids will beopened physically in the presence of the bidders' representatives who choose to attend in person at the address (10.3) belowat 11 am of 17 Aug. 2010.

9.   All bids shall   be accompanied by a Bid Security   of   1,400,000,000 IRR (One thousand four hundred million, Iranian Rials)or 140,000 USD (One hundred fourty thousand USD) or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency in the form ofbank guarantee at the selling exchange rate published by The Central Bank of The Islamic Republic of Iran on 3 Aug.2010.

10.   The addresses referred to above are:

1.Address toinspect and purchase Bidding Document

IRANABConsulting Engineers

No.5 Jhila Alley, Basiri St.,Do Rahi Gholhak,Dr.Shariati Ave.,1949643941,Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Tel: +98-21-22633047-56    Fax:+98-21-22602780

Email: info@iranab-eng.com

2.Address todelivere Bidding Document:

Guilan Waterand Wastewater Co.

CentralSecretariat

Next toGhods Park, Hafez st. Rasht, Iran, Islamic Republic of 

Tel:+98-131-3221025,6,7 Fax: +98-131-3225020

Email:info@abfa-guilan.co.ir     

3.Address toopen Bidding Document:

Guilan Waterand Wastewater Co.

Conferencehall, 3rd floor of main building

Next toGhods Park, Hafez st. Rasht, Iran, Islamic Republic of 

Tel:+98-131-3221025,6,7 Fax: +98-131-3225020

Email:info@abfa-guilan.co.ir