Specific Procurement Notice
Request for Bids
Small Works
(Two-Envelope Bidding Process)
Employer: Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning
Project: Fostering and Leveraging Opportunities for Water Security (FLOWS)
Country: Republic of Kosovo
IDA Credit No.: 6636-XK
Project ID No.: 169150
RFB No: FLOWS-NCB-W-04
Issued on: 22 June 2026
- The Government of Kosovo has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Fostering and Leveraging Opportunities for Water Security (FLOWS) Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Remedial Works Monitoring for 5 dams (Badovci, Batllava, Perlpenica, Radoniqi, Ujman). For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing,”.
- The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, through Project Management Team (PMT) of FLOWS project now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Remedial Works Monitoring for 5 dams (Badovci, Batllava, Perlpenica, Radoniqi, Ujman). The construction period is twelve (12) months maximum depending on award date, and contract completion date cannot go beyond August 31 2027. Bidders are required to have a minimum average annual construction turnover of Euro 3.8 million (Three million and eight hundred thousand).
- The Works comprise the execution of priority remedial interventions at selected existing dams in Kosovo, including localized concrete repair and restoration works, crack sealing and injection, waterproofing and protective treatments, rehabilitation or replacement of seepage monitoring arrangements, installation of additional monitoring instruments where specified, completion, connection, testing and commissioning of existing dam monitoring instrumentation systems, and associated electromechanical and hydraulic safety system works such as pipe, valve, actuator, switchboard, and related installation or rehabilitation works where included in the Bill of Quantities. The Works are limited to the interventions specifically identified in the BoQs and technical specifications and do not include major rehabilitation of dam embankments or dam bodies unless expressly stated.
- The contract with the winning contractor will cover the three priority dams — Batlava, Ujman, and Perlepnica. The two remaining dams, Badovci and Radoniqi, will be included subject to the availability of funds.
- This procurement covers only the priority interventions identified by the Employer and listed in the Bill of Quantities and technical specifications. Bidders shall price only those items included in the issued bidding documents. If any item in the BoQs is identified by the Employer during bidding as non-priority or outside the intended procurement scope, such item shall be clarified through addendum and, as applicable, removed from the scope, treated as optional, or reserved for future procurement.
- Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers, Fifth Edition, September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.
- Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from PMT, Ms. Majlinda Pruthi, Procurement Specialist, email flows@gmail.com, copied to Vigan Syla, Project Manager, email: vsyla.flows@gmail.com and inspect the bidding document during office hours 09.00 to 16.00 hours at the address given below.
- The bidding document in English may be obtained by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and are free of charge. The document will be sent by email.
- Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 31 July 2026. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. The outer Bid envelopes marked “ORIGINAL BID”, and the inner envelopes marked “TECHNICAL PART” will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on 31 July 2026, 14.00 (local time). All envelopes marked “FINANCIAL PART” shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Employer until the second public Bid opening.
- All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of Euro 38,000.
- Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.
The address referred to above is:
Project Management Team (PMT)
Fostering and Leveraging Opportunities for Water Security Project (FLOWS)
Address: “Hajdar Dushi”, 1-B Nr.7
10000 Pristina, Kosova
Attention:
Vigan Syla, Project Manager