LETTER OF INVITATION

TENDER/006/INAP-2023                                                                                                    Date: 26 June 2023

1.	The National Procurement Commission, I.P on behalf of Instituto Nacional da Administracao Publica (INAP)- Government of Timor-Leste (RDTL) is inviting proposals from the interesting consulting firms for the:
Construction Supervision Consultant of New Training Building of INAP.
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 Dili Municipalities.
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.	The construction Supervision comprises 95 person-months of key experts input over a duration of 24 month of construction and 12 month of defect liability period.
6.	A firm will be selected under the Quality and Cost Base Selection (QCBS) as described in the RFP document The Technical Proposal will be evaluated based on the Qualification of the Firms (The consultant has successfully completed at least 2 similar projects in Consulting Services with a contract price of USD: 987,500.00 each in last 7 years (similar in scope as required in ToR) as Lead Firm or Joint Venture Partner), Approach & Methodology & Experts CV. The minimum technical score (St) required to pass is:75%
7.	The bidding shall be conducted as a two-envelope procedure, wherein the Technical Proposal and Financial Proposal shall be submitted together in separately-sealed envelopes.
8.	Interested Consulting firms may obtain further information from:
National Procurement Commission
Avenida de Balide, Partimonio Estado,  Dili, Timor-Leste
Email:  tender006inap23@cna.gov.tl
9.	Participation in this bidding process is open to all interested international and national Consultants. The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to the qualification requirements detailed in the RFP;
10.	The RFP 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 also by email;
11.	A pre-proposal conference will be held at 10:00 hour’s local time on 10 July 2023 at the same address specified above; COVID-19, the Pre-proposal conference for the above-mentioned project will be held virtually through the following zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/6421938789?pwd=dnBsWmpnNmd2WVdVRlJJT3dvUlBkQT09	
Meeting ID: 642 193 8789                                           Passcode: cna2021
12.	The proposals must be received in the Tender Box located at the same address specified above no later than 15:00 hour’s local time on 7 August 2023 Late proposals will be rejected.
13.	The Consultants has the option of submitting their Proposals through email. The consultant will submit the Technical proposal and Financial Proposal (Password Protected) in non- editable PDF format through separate email. If the file size is more than 10 MB of Technical or Financial Proposal, the consultant will send through multiple emails with no attachment size is bigger than 10 MB.
NPC will request later password of the Financial Proposal from the consultant whose are qualified based on the financial proposal opening.;
14.	Technichal Proposal will be opened on 7 August 2023 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. An online option of the opening of the Technical Proposals is offered through the link mentioned above.
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
Presidente da CNA I.P