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Project name: Instrumental monitoring of on-site water table of ISF-2 ChNPP

Country: Ukraine

Business sector: Nuclear safety

Project ID: 4005

Funding source: Nuclear Safety Account

Type of contract: Consultancy Services

Type of notice: Invitation for Expressions of Interest

Issue date: 04 May 2010

Closing date: 20th May 2010

6119-EOI-4005

Country: Ukraine

Sector: Nuclear Safety

Project Title: Chernobyl NPP (ChNPP) Interim Storage Facility 2 (ISF-2) Completion Support Projects

Assignment Title: Instrumental monitoring of on-site water table of ISF-2

Executing Agency: Chernobyl Project Management Unit (ChPMU), The Executing Agency Contact Person: Mr. V. Shatkovsky – Dep. Contract Manager and Mr. L. Karkoruchko – Contract Engineer, Slavutich, UKRAINE, tel. +38(04579) 2-60-43, fax +38(04579) 2-61-16, e-mail: v.shatkovsky@chpmu.com.ua , l.karkoruchko@chpmu.com.ua.

Assignment Description: ISF-2 facility is located at ChNPP site within ChNPP Exclusion Zone Administration. The facility will be used for handling and storing of RBMK spent nuclear fuel and spent absorber rods. The facility consists of several reinforced-concrete monolithic buildings which are various in functions and number of floors, designated for transportation, handling, packaging and storing of SSE ChNPP spent nuclear fuel. There are areas of radioactive contamination at the site territory.

As required by Ukrainian construction norms, the water table levels are required to be monitored.

The main objectives of the assignment shall be:

• Development of project plan and monitoring programmes of ISF-2 onsite water table;

• Construction of monitoring wells;

• Monitoring;

• Issue of monitoring reports;

• Development and issue of Monitoring Analytical Report.

Assignment Start Date and Duration: July 2010, 15,5 months

Maximum Budget available for the Assignment: EUR 70,000. Exclusive of VAT.

Funding Source: The contract will be financed through the Nuclear Safety Account grant.

Eligibility: The proceeds of the Bank's loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, of for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Procurement will be carried out in accordance with EBRD Procurement Policies and Rules with the exception of country eligibility restrictions defined within the NSA. Eligible countries as of 16 January 2009 are: EU member states, Canada, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, USA, and the EBRD countries of operation.

Consultant Profile:

• The Applicant shall be adequately funded and resourced, necessary meters and instruments (with valid calibration certificates) shall be available. Applicant shall have access to accredited software and other tools necessary to carry out parts of the work.

• The Applicant shall be an established organisation in this field of expertise with experience of similar work. The Applicant shall have relevant experience in all areas needed for the performance of the assignment.

• The Applicant shall have accredited quality assurance systems for the assurance of this type of work and shall have the Ukrainian State Licence for survey of NPP buildings and structures:

- Licence for geodesic survey and reporting;

- Licence for geological and hydro geological survey and reporting;

- Civil construction licence (construction of wellheads)

• The Applicant shall be able to provide experts in this field that are suitably qualified and experienced to implement the monitoring of Nuclear objects.

Submission Requirements: Interested firms are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.

In order to determine the capability and experience of consulting firms seeking to be shortlisted, the information submitted should include the following:

• company profile, organisation and staffing;

• availability of the permits and licences for each kind of works

• details of experience or similar assignments undertaken in the previous five years, including their locations;

• CVs of staff that could be available to work on the assignment.

The above information should not exceed 40 pages including CVs.

Three (3) copies of the above information, in English, and three copies in Ukrainian or Russian should be submitted to ChPMU in an envelope marked Expression of Interest for "Instrumental monitoring of on-site water table of ISF-2", to reach the ChPMU not later than 20th of May 2010. For purposes of interpretation, the English language versions of EOI shall govern.

Note: Following this Invitation for Expression of Interest, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals.