The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) floated a 100 MW solar project tender for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC). This project will set up in Chhattisgarh. The deadline for the submission of bids is September 9, 2021.
According to the project document, the scope of work includes the design, engineering, procurement, supply of equipment and materials, testing at manufacturers’ works, packing and forwarding, supply, receipt, unloading, and storage at site, associated civil works, installation, insurance at all stages, erection, testing and commissioning of the project in Chhattisgarh along with the interconnected transmission lines on a turnkey basis. Selected bidders will need to provide operations and maintenance services for 15 years. The completion period for this solar project is 18 months.
Exemption in earnest money has also been provided to the interested bidders who participate in the bidding process.
In case, the contractor fails to comply with any of the rules relating to the project such as project completion deadline or any other extension, the owner shall be entitled to receive an amount equal to 0.5% of the contract value/week by the contractor. The sum payable would be for the whole of the facilities as liquidated damages for such default subject. The maximum limit of the payable amount can be 5% of the contract price for the entire facility.
The interested bidder must have a minimum of 400 acres of land to set up the project.
According to the tender, the tender awarded bidder will have to submit 3% of the amount as contract performance security. This performance security will be valid for a total period of 201 months from the date of the issuance of the contract order. These 201 months will include 18 months of commissioning time, 180 months of operations and maintenance services time, and 03 months of the additional period.
Bidders from another country who shares a land border with India are also eligible to bid in this tender. The only condition is they should be proper registered with the competent authority.
Basic Customs Duty will be imposing on solar cells and solar modules from April 01, 2022. For this, the nodal agency said that the interested bidders should keep in mind that the Basic Customs Duty would not be considered under Change in Law.
Apart from this, the tender document also stated that the required purchase of solar modules and solar inverters would be done by the Class-I local suppliers only.
(All the local suppliers will be considered in Class-I, who use 50% or more of local components for production work.)
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has published a list of models and manufacturers. All the solar modules will be purchased under the guideline of List-I. Along with this, the successful bidder must have provided the disclosure certificate. This certificate should state that bidder is aware of binding provisions of the ALMM order and the list thereunder while quoting for the tender.
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