Tender Notice

Tender No. : POWERCHINA-0303/002-21125

1. Project Overview and Tender Scope

1.1    Power Construction Corporation of China (hereinafter referred to as “POWERCHINA” or “Tenderee”) has invested in the Barisal Electric Power Company Limited which is developing and operating the first ever power project. The unit of 1 × 307 MW（net） Coal-Fired Power Plant developed in Bangladesh, which will require a supply of coal for the lifespan of the power plant. The coal will be delivered to the Coal Unloading Jetty at the power plant site in Bangladesh, (the “Delivery Point”). Barisal Electric Power Company Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of Bangladesh which has its registered office at [GA-99/3/A & B, Badda, Dhaka,PO:1212，Bangladesh] ,and is jointly invested by POWERCHINA and ISO Tech, which is the main procurement entity for the coal of the project. POWERCHINA is planning to procure coal of South Africa /Indonesia/Australia origins (the “Coal Origins”) on DAP (delivered at place) basis. POWERCHINA is entrusted to launch and organize the coal procurement tender.

1.2    South African coal, Australian and Indonesian coal to be procured during November 2021 till November 2023 is expected to be 1.1 million tons per year and the total demand for two years is expected to be 2.2 million tons. The future percentage breakdown of Coal Origins will be subject to actual consumption during December 2021 till December 2023. Vessel size would be negotiated between both parties, barge size would be 2500MT-8000MT, and will be on a DAP basis only which means to load the vessel in the country of export and then ship to Bangladesh at the Discharge Port and then transship onto barges to the extent required and then deliver to the Coal Unloading Jetty. Coal Unloading Jetty is a dedicated Wharf of 8000t in Barisal Power Plant at Bangladesh and it provides berth with length of overall 140 meters and about 4.2 meters of draft.

1.3    POWERCHINA aims to bid the supply of coal by open tendering process. Suppliers will supply coal from one or more Coal Origins. The coal supplier is responsible of loading the vessel in the country of export, shipment to Bangladesh at the Discharge Port, lightering to the designed extent and delivery of cargo to the Coal Unloading Jetty. The first coal delivery under this bidding is expected to start in November 2021.

2. Prerequisites

2.1    The bidder shall acknowledge Independent Surveyor at the Discharge Port and Coal Unloading Jetty will be selected by POWERCHINA through international open tendering and at the expense of POWERCHINA; Undertaking shall be submitted;

2.2    Undertaking for instruction of consignment discharge upon vessel arrival at Discharge Port and Coal Unloading Jetty.

2.3    Bank Guarantee amount delivered by Coal Supplier shall be equal or more than USD 2,000,000 (Amount in words: USD TWO MILLION).

3. Qualification Requirements for Bidders

Qualification requirements for bidders are included but not limited to as follows:

3.1    At least 3 years coal delivery experience to power plants as the end user.

3.2    Good bank credit and business reputation and not involved in any lawsuit case over the last three (3) years and currently; Legal opinion shall be submitted.

3.3    Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate of Trade Registration or Certificate of Registration or equivalent.

3.4    Incorporated no later than 2018 with valid business license.

3.5    Latest audited financial statements over the last three (3) years.

3.6    List of ultimate shareholders (people having a beneficial interest in 25% or more of the issued share capital of the Bidder) + copy of their IDs.

3.7    Shareholding structure, with evidence of the shareholdings (e.g., extracts from the shareholders’ registers). Bidders shall comply with compliance policies, and are not being sanctioned and not being notified of an impending or ongoing investigation. The Bidders shall commit to disclosure of the relevant content of the United States: whether the shareholders, actual controllers, senior executives and their relatives are U.S. nationals or persons on the sanction list of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

3.8    List of all directors (or equivalent) + copy of two (2) of directors’ IDs.

3.9    Bidders shall be requested to provide past experience and solid documentation between the Bidder and its coal transportation service provider. For example, provide the initial page and signing page of the contract with coal transportation service provider.

3.10 ?Annual financial reporting revenue should be 29.4 million U.S dollars or above.

4. The Obtaining of Tender Documents and Clarification of Tender Documents

4.1    Anyone who meets the qualification requirements for bidders and intends to participate in the bidding process, please contact the website of Equipment and Material Centralized Procurement Platform of POWERCHINA (“Bidding Platform”) (https://ec.powerchina.cn) to obtain the tender documents, and the registration and use of the website is free of charge. The deadline for obtaining the tender documents shall be 17:00 June 21th, 2021(Beijing Standard Time).

4.2    Bidders are required to upload the following documents for registration online:

①Scanned copy of authorized letter with signature and seal, which state that the authorized representative of bidder has got permission of purchasing tender documents online.

②ID copy and/or passport copy of bidder’s representative.

4.3    After the application is approved, the tender documents fee shall be paid in the amount of US $5,000 (Amount in words: USD FIVE THOUSAND). Payment of bids can by bank transfer to dedicated bank account as follows, which is non-refundable once paid. “POWERCHINA COAL PROCUREMENT TENDER” shall be mentioned in the remarks provided by bank transfer.

Payee name: Zhejiang Huadong Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd

Bank: Hangzhou Chaowang Road Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Bank Account: 1202003209900001564

SWIFT Code: ICBKCNBJZJP

After the payment for tender documents is completed, please upload the payment voucher to the Bidding Platform and await approval in order to download the tender documents.

4.4 The deadline for the Tenderee to clarify tender documents shall be fifteen (15) days prior to the Closing Date.

4.5 The Tenderee is entitled to modify the tender documents, in accordance with the questions raised by the bidders and its own consideration until fifteen (15) days prior to the Closing Date.

4.6 The bidders are entitled to raise any question about the tender documents. The deadline for the bidders to raise such questions shall be ten (10) days prior to the Closing Date. The Tenderee shall answer any clarifications raised by the bidders within three days after receiving such clarification.

5. Submission of Bids

5.1    The closing date for the submission of bids, namely, the closing date for bidding and the date for opening of bids shall be the same, which is 14:00 July 6th, 2021 (Beijing time)(“Closing Date”). Bidders should submit the soft copy of bids through the website (https://ec.powerchina.cn) before the Closing Date.

a)        The tender process for coal procurement will be carried out online through the website. The process of encryption, submission, decryption, and sign-in of electronic bids must be conducted online by each bidder. The bidder must apply for the electronic key in advance for online bidding. Please log in to the website service center or consult customer service to understand the specific information of the website operation and electronic key handling, and conduct online bidding strictly according to the requirements. Failure of bidding will be the responsibility of the bidder.

Customer Service Phone: 4006274006-12

b)        Each bidder shall log in to the website and use the electronic key to compile, encrypt and upload electronic bids. In case of failure to submission occurs due to overdue, all bidders are requested to give full consideration to the impact of file memory and network speed, to spare sufficient time is suggested and submission after the deadline is not accepted. (the online submission of electronic bids is recommended to be completed at least twelve (12) hours ahead of closing date).

c)        Each bidder shall use the electronic key to log in to the bidding butler client of the website for online check-in. The closing date for online check-in is the same as the closing date for the submission of electronic bids. Bidders who have not checked in online will not be able to perform subsequent bidding processes (to ensure that the bid opening process is completed successfully, it is recommended to complete the online check-in one (1) hour in advance).

d)        After the closing date for bidding, each bidder shall use the electronic key to log in to the bidding butler client of the website to decrypt the bids online.

5.2    Provided there is any change on the closing date for the submission of bids and the place for submission, the Tenderee will promptly notify all bidders who have purchased the bids through the website.

5.3    Before permitting to submit the bids, bidders shall apply for the qualification of qualified suppliers (without review fees) from the website and pass the reviewing becoming a qualified supplier. Provided that the bidder fails to apply the qualification of a qualified supplier due to its own reasons, which results in failure to submit bids even opening of bids, the bidder shall undertake all the consequences.

5.4    Bidders shall submit a bank guarantee of USD 40,000 as the tender guarantee, otherwise its bidding document will be rejected. The bank guarantee must be issue before the deadline for bid submission. The validity period of bank guarantee is the same as that of the Bid. The Beneficiary account is as follows:

Payee name: Zhejiang Huadong Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd

Bank: Hangzhou Chaowang Road Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Bank Account: 1202003209900001564

SWIFT Code: ICBKCNBJZJP

6. Media for the Notice

This notice was also published on the website of Equipment and Material Centralized Procurement Platform of POWERCHINA (https://ec.powerchina.cn).

7. Contact Information

Tenderee：POWERCHINA RESOURCES LTD.

Address：Haifu Building, No. 22 West Road Chegongzhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Contact? Person：Guanhao Feng

Tel：010-58381959

Email: fengguanhao@powerchina.cn

8. Supervision department

Audit Supervision Department of Power Construction Corporation of China

Supervisory Tel：010-58368596

Remarks:

All bidding relevant documentation must be properly signed by the authorized signatory of bidder and stamped since any material deficiency in providing the information requested may result in rejection of bids.