Procurement of Equipment and Materials for the Rehabilitation of 600 kW Myongchon Hydropower Plant

March 9, 2012

Section I

Invitation to Bid

Reference: ITB-2012-04-DPRK

Deadline to submit your offer: no later than 4:00 pm^[1] on May 7, 2012.

Subject: Procurement of Equipment and Materials for the Rehabilitation of 600 kW Myongchon Hydropower Plant in Myongchon Cooperative Farm in DPRK.

a)     We hereby solicit your bid for the supply of the equipment and materials duly described in Annexes V and VI.

b)     To enable you to submit a bid, please find enclosed:

c)     Interested Bidders may submit any question regarding this Invitation to Bid (ITB) to the e-mail address operations.dprk@undp.org not later than April 1, 2012. The answers or any modification to these tender documents will be published in UNDP Procurement Notices Website[2] and United Nations Global Marketplace Website[3] no later than 11 pm on April 4, 2012.

d)     Bids in sealed envelope must be sent by DHL[4] and delivered to the following address no later than 4 pm on April 26, 2012 (please mark the envelope with the reference number ITB-2012-04-DPRK):

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Procurement Unit.

PO BOX 27. 21 Munsudong Daedonggang, Pyongyang.

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 80807

e)     Bids will be opened in the presence of Bidders’ Representatives[5], who chose to attend at the address, date and time indicated in the Bidding Documents.

f)      Please submit the form Acknowledge Letter (Annex IX) by April 10, 2012 to indicate whether or not you intend to submit an offer.

g)     This letter is not to be construed in any way as an offer to contract with your firm.

Kind regards,

UNDP Procurement Unit.