DEADLINE EXTENDED - Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley – Protection, conservation, monitoring and management of mural paintings and capacity-building

United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hereby invite qualified companies to submit sealed tenders as follows:

Enclosed between the high mountains of the Hindu Kush in the central highlands of Afghanistan, the Bamiyan Valley opens out into a large basin bordered to the north by a long, high stretch of rocky cliffs. Following the deliberate destruction of the two standing Buddha statues, in March 2001, the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2003 and simultaneously placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

The current project “Sustainable Management of the Bamiyan World Heritage property - Preparing the removal of Bamiyan from the List of World Heritage in Danger”, funded by the government of Japan, was designed to assist the Government of Afghanistan in its overall purpose of removing Bamiyan from the List of World Heritage in Danger.