Tender for construction of new cogeneration stations for Termoelectrica enterprise of Moldova to be repeated

Chisinau, 25 January /MOLDPRES/ - The tender for the construction of new highly efficient cogeneration stations for the Termoelectrica stock company will be repeated. The director of the Consolidated Unit for the Implementation and Monitoring of Projects in Energy Sector (UCIPE), Ruslan Surugiu, made statements to this effect today.  

According to the quoted source, the repeating of the tender is conditioned by the non-compliance of the two bids got following the first tender. At the same time, the decision was taken, in order to ensure a high level of quality of the bid due to be accepted within the project. ‘’At the first tender, decision-makers carried out a complex process of evaluation of the bids, with the involvement of international consultancy companies and the evaluation report, the decision on the rejection of bids, as well as the repeated organization of the tender was coordinated with the World Bank, which is the financer of the project,’’ Ruslan Surugiu said.     

The UCIPE head also said that the previous tender had been carried out in difficult circumstances, triggered by the war in Ukraine, ‘’and this fact prompted more companies to avoid coming up with bids.’’   

„In continuation, to ensure the participation in the new tender of more companies with potential, which will provide qualitative investments, we will organize several measures due to ensure a good result. They regard the revising of the tender book for its optimization and enhancement of the level of clarity, in order to give possibility to potential bidders to be able to elaborate bids quicker and more qualitatively,’’ Ruslan Surugiu added.     

The project provides for the construction of two new cogeneration stations with an overall capacity of 55 MW of electric energy and at least 43 Gcal/hour of thermal energy. They will replace the former Heating Supply Station 1 (CET-1), put into operation in 1951 and will contribute to the increase in the capacity of domestic production of electric energy and ensuring Moldova’s energy security. The construction of the stations is financially backed by the World Bank, within the Project on the Improvement of the Efficiency of the System of Centralized Supply with Thermal Energy (PIESACET-2). The value of the works is of about 90 million euros.