Tendering Process
The NPP tendering process involves a series of phases that is designed to ensure the project is completed by companies that have been rigorously evaluated in terms of technical and financial competence. Contracts are awarded to companies that can demonstrate an acceptable technical capability and submit the lowest commercially acceptable offer. The tendering process will generally comprise the following phases:

1.         Prequalification or Expression of Interest*

• Public advertisement, requesting interested parties to register their interest
• Applicants issued with package specific prequalification forms for completion
• The evaluation of submitted prequalification applications
• Successful applicants notified of their inclusion on the tender list

2.         Tendering

• Invitation to tender documentation issued to prequalified applicants
• Site Visit and Pre-tender Meeting conducted with all tenderers
• Responses to queries and further information issued via Notices to Tenderers

3.         Tender Submission and Evaluation

• Tenders submitted in two parts simultaneously (technical and commercial submissions)
• Opening and evaluation of technical submissions
• Opening and evaluation of commercial submissions for those tenderers whose technical submissions are deemed acceptable

*The Prequalification Phase may be deemed inappropriate for tendering certain packages.  In such circumstances, this stage would be omitted, with the package going immediately to Open or Limited Tender.

 

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