LETTER OF INVITATION

Date: 21 June 2024

RFP No.: RFP/028/MAPPF-2024

1.	The National Procurement Commission on behalf of Ministry of Agriculture   Livestock, Fisheries and Forests, Government of Timor-Leste, now invites proposals from the interesting consulting firms to provide the following consulting services (hereinafter called “services”):
Construction Supervision of the Watuwa/Modobuti Irrigation Scheme
      More details on the Services are provided in the        Request for Proposal (RFP).
2.	Funding for these Services will be made from the Infrastructure Fund of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
3.	The Project is Located in Baucau Municipality.
4.	The scope of Services covers for supervising the construction  works in all aspects of quantity, quality, cost and time schedules, in good manner.
5.	Maximum budget for this assignment US$:1,053,000.00 (United States Dollars One Million Fifty Three Thousand) inclusive of all applicable taxes. The Employer may disqualify the financial proposal exceeding the budget.Consultant shall be responsible for paying of all related taxes. Consultant shall provide justification in the financial proposal if abnormally low-financial proposal (thirty 30% lower than estimate).
6.	The construction Supervision comprises 79 person-months of International experts and 108 persons-months of national experts input over duration of 36 month of construction and 12 month of defect liability period. The proposal validity is 180 days after the submission of the proposal.
7.	A firm will be selected under the Quality and Cost under the Selection (QCBS) Method with weights given to Technical & Financial Proposals are (80:20) and other selection criteria like, Experience of Firm, Experience of Experts and Approach and Methodology, Work Program and personnel Schedule described in this RFP. The minimum technical score (St) required to pass is:75%. The Client shall award the contract to the Consultant with the highest combined score evaluated in accordance with the procedure specified under section 2 & 3 of RFP, provided further that the Consultant is determined to be qualified to perform the contract satisfactorily.
8.	The procurement shall be conducted as single stage-two envelope procedures, wherein the Technical and Financial Proposals shall be submitted together in separately-sealed envelopes.
9.	Interested Consulting firms may obtain further information from:
National Procurement Commission
Avenida de Balide, Património do Estado, Díli, Timor-Leste
Email:ad@cna.gov.tl
Cc:as@cna.gov.tl,ns@cna.gov.tl,rl@cna.gov.tl,lh@cna.gov.tl, ls@cna.gov.tl, 
10.	Participation in this selection process is open to all interested international and national Consultants. Attention is drawn to the qualification requirements detailed in the RFP.  
11.	The RFP including Proposal Submission Forms is available free-of-charge to any interested Consultants (Local or International Consulting Firms) by sending a written request by email after which a PDF copy of the RFP will be sent by email;
12.	A pre-proposal conference will be held at 15:00 hour’s local time  on 15 July 2024;
13.	The proposals must be received in the Tender Box located at the same address specified above no later than 15:00 hours local time on 8 August 2024;   
14.	Technical proposals will be opened on 8 August 2024 at 15:00 hours local time after the closing time for the submission of the proposals at the same address in the presence of consultants who wish to attend.
15.	Any proposal or its modification received by the Employer after the deadline shall be declared late and rejected, and promptly returned unopened.








Hermingardo Albano  Soares
Diretor-Executivo - Comissão Nacional de Aprovisionamento