NOTICE FOR AWARDING A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CONTRACT REALIZED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE CONCESSION

The contract is awarded as a PPP contract in the form of a public service concession. The subject matter of the planned concession is the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and financing of the Gevgelija technological industrial development zone in two Phases – Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Phase 1 refers to the establishment of the Gevgelija technological industrial development zone by the Private Partner. This phase includes the construction of infrastructural, industrial, and other facilities with a total surface area of about 270,000 m² per the urban planning requirements and the area’s intended uses, on a 50.25 ha building plot.

Phase 2 depends on the successful implementation of Phase 1. In Phase 2, the Private Partner would have the obligation to design, build, operate, maintain, and finance Phase 2 of the Gevgelija technological industrial development zone, which includes the construction of infrastructural, industrial, and other facilities per the applicable urban planning requirements and the area’s intended uses, potentially on a building plot of about 70 ha, if the land is available at the time of completion of Phase 1. The Public Partner is under no obligation to make the land available to the Private Partner if the legal, planning, and other conditions, stipulated by the contract concluded with the Private Partner, are not met at the time of fulfilment of the contractual obligations of the Private Partner at the end of the Phase 1 construction period.

The allocation of the technological industrial development zone Gevgelija to a Private partner derives from the need to attract investments that will provide prerequisites for local economic development in the south-eastern region of the Republic of North Macedonia, i.e., to reduce the number of unemployed people and raise the living standard. Objectives to be achieved by the award of the PPP contract are as follows:

• economic and social development;
• increasing the area’s competitiveness;
• raising the standard of living of the population;
• retention of the working-age population in the area;
• construction of infrastructure facilities in the zone;
• attracting new investors to the zone;
• reducing unemployment;

presentation of the economic effects of the investment, the necessary costs, as well as the measurable and immeasurable benefits and sustainability of the project.

III.1.2) Address of the Public Partner: Bulevar Partizanski Odredi no. 2, PO Box 311

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☒English

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The Application for Participation with its supporting documents must be submitted in English along with a court-sworn translation into Macedonian, or in Macedonian with a court-sworn translation into English, except for documents issued by the Macedonian government and/or administrative bodies, which can be submitted in Macedonian only. The Public Partner reserves the right to request that such documents, issued in Macedonian, be subsequently translated into English by a court-sworn translator. In case of discrepancies between the English and Macedonian versions, the document issued in the original language shall prevail.

Evidence and their value indicators in order to determine the standing:

The Public Partner will accept the following documents in accordance with section 2.3 of the Tender Documentation as evidence of lack of grounds for exclusion from the procedure:

• statement of the Economic Operator that in the last 5 years, no final judgment has been rendered for a crime under subsection 2.2.1. of the Tender Documentation;
• certificate confirming that no bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated against the Economic Operator issued by a competent authority;
• certificate confirming that no liquidation proceedings have been initiated against the Economic Operator by a competent authority;
• certificate of payment of taxes, contributions, and other public charges, issued by a competent authority;
• certificate from the Macedonian Register of Penalties for Criminal Offences Committed by Legal Entities confirming that the Economic Operator has not been imposed a secondary penalty, a ban on participating in public tender procedures, the award of public procurement contracts or public-private partnership contracts;
• certificate from the Macedonian Register of Penalties for Criminal Offences Committed by Legal Entities confirming that the Economic Operatorhas not been sentenced to a minor penalty, a temporary or permanent ban on performing its business activity;
• certificate confirming that no misdemeanour sanction has been imposed on the Economic Operator  through a final judgment – a ban on performing a profession, activity, or duty, i.e. a temporary ban on performing a business activity.

Evidence and their value indicators in order to determine the ability:

A certificate of registration or proof that the Economic Operator belongs to an appropriate professional association under the regulations of its country of registration as indicated in section 2.4.1.а of the Tender Documentation.

The Economic Operator shall provide evidence of its compliance with this condition by submitting its audited financial statements for the previous two closed accounting periods, prepared in line with the IFRS effective for the given accounting period. For more details, please refer to section 2.4.1.b of the Tender documentation.

A minimum annual income of EUR 30 (thirty) million for each of the last two calendar years, ending on the date of the balance sheet of the last audited financial statements.

A copy of recommendations from previous relevant PPP projects as indicated in section 2.4.1.c of the Tender Documentation.

In the last 15 years, established and/or developed   and/or operated a minimum of 1 (one) industrial zone, with an Investment Value of at least EUR 100 (one hundred) million.