According to Part C, part 2b, point 1 (List of Required Documents), the tenderer should provide “Appropriate statements from [specify number] first class banks. Based on your answers to previous questions, please kindly confirm our understanding that: 1) every economic operator, who is part of a group of economic operators submitting a joint tender, should submit separate statement (bank reference), and 2) you would require only one statement (bank reference) per economic operator.

According to Chapter III of the Tender dossier, the tenderer (or the respective group of economic operators) should present tender security in the amount of EUR 10,000. The acceptable forms for submitting the security are specified as: cash transfer; check; bank guarantee/ letter of credit. However, in the tender dossier, the details of the Ministry of Energy and Mining’s bank which should receive the tender security remain unspecified. Please kindly specify your bank’s details (e.g. name, code, account number, address, etc) so that we would be able to arrange the required security.

Annex 2, Part C. 2; List of required documents: you are requesting certified copies of income statements and management reports for a maximum of 3 financial years. Hence please confirm that the submission of copies for one financial year will be compliant with the tender instructions.

Annex 2, Part C. 2; List of required documents: you are requesting certified copies of balance sheets for a maximum of 3 financial years. Hence please confirm (i) that the submission of copies for one financial year will be compliant with the tender instructions.

Section IV. 4 (ii); Please provide the number of signed copies of the tenders which need to be submitted at the submission date.

Section II.2.6.; Task 4: Are Interconnection Agreements with neighbouring countries in place already?

Section II.2.6.; Task 4: Who is i) drafting and ii) negotiating the following contracts/ documents:

a.Power Purchase Agreements
b.Joint Venture Agreement/ Shareholder Agreement (if applicable)
c.Concession Agreement
d.Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) Agreement

Section II.2.6.: Task 3: the Consultant shall arrange for a data room for potential investors and shall open and maintain a website for public access. Who will bare the costs of establishing and maintaining a data room, in particular the costs of external electronic dataroom providers?

Section II.2.6.: According to Task 4, the Consultant is requested to develop a financial model to back IMSC decision making. What kind of input can be provided by the Client at that stage? Are there any reference documents available, such as feasibility studies?

Section II.2.3:According to the ‘Planned Schedule for the Project Implementation’ set out on p. 11 potential bidders have already been requested to submit Expression of Interest. Does that mean that in parallel to the subject tender a pre-qualification process has already been launched? If yes, will the Consultant be provided with the pre-qualification criteria? Please note that Task 4.2 under II.2.6. the short-listing of the bidders is listed among the Consultant’s tasks.