Employer: Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (Solomon Power)

Project: Electricity Access and Renewable Energy Expansion Project

Contract title: Design, Supply, installation and commissioning of a Solar Power Plant (Henderson Site)

Country: Solomon Islands

Credit No.: IDA-D3270

RFB No: SB-SP-97731-CW-RFB

Issued on: 18 March 2019

1.    The Ministry of Finance & Treasury has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Electricity Access and Renewable Energy Expansion Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract for Design, Supply, installation and commissioning of a Solar Power Plant (Henderson Site). For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank's Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, and the "Additional Instructions: Disbursement" for this project, except for those payments which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.

2.    The Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (Solomon Power) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the design, Supply, installation and commissioning of the Henderson solar power plant expansion, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The turnkey process up to the plant operational acceptance will be one year. Solomon Power currently has an existing 1MW Solar Farm at this site and intends to expand it by an additional 2MW. The additional generation capacity shall be grid connected inverter based generation, connected in to the spare circuit breakers at the existing connection transformer. The successful Bidder will thereafter be required to provide operation and maintenance support to Solomon Power for a period of 24 months. Only eligible Bidders with key qualifications given below should participate in this bidding process.

•           net worth in the last financial year should be positive.

•           minimum average annual turnover of US$3,000,000.00 within the last 5 years.

•           Cash flow requirements of US$400,000.00.

•           participation as contractor, joint venture member, management contractor, or subcontractor, in at least two (2) similar contracts within the last three (3) years, each with a value of at least One Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$1.5M), that have been successfully and substantially completed.