Project name: Shalkiya Zinc: Pre-Privatisation Loan

Country: Kazakhstan

Business sector: Natural Resources

Project ID: 8555-PRE-48347

Funding source: EBRD

Type of contract: Project goods, works and services

Type of notice: Invitation for Prequalification

Issue date: 31 January 2017

Closing date: 03 March 2017, 11:00 local time

This Invitation for Prequalification follows the General Procurement Notice for this project, which was published on the EBRD website, Project Procurement Notices (http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/procurement.html) section on 3 March 2016.

ShalkiyaZinc LTD JSC (the “Client”) has requested the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “Bank”) to grant a loan and intends to spend part of the proceeds of the loan to fund the project named “Commercial Mining of Polymetallic Ores from Shalkiya Deposit in Kyzylorda Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan Featuring Construction of Enrichment Factory”.

The Client intends prequalifying companies and consortia to tender for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan – the Contract on Capital Development, Construction and Assembly Work on Mine Facilities (the “Contract”). The scope of capital development work under the Contract includes:

– Construction of inclined workings;

– Shaft sinking;

– Construction of crushing and transfer complex, including installation and start-up of shaft conveyor equipment and crushing equipment supplied under the EPC Contract (as defined below) as per instruction and under supervision over the installation by the contractor under the EPC Contract (the “EPC Contractor”);

– Horizontal workings;

– Vertical workings, including mining of 4.5 m diameter air holes;

– Chamber workings.

The Client is currently carrying out the procurement procedure under the Project for the separate Turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract for Shalkiya Lead-Zinc Project Enrichment Factory in Kyzylorda Region (the “EPC Contract”, prequalification identification number: 8268-PRE-48347). It is expected that the works under the Contract will be closely interrelated with EPC Contract.

The work is to be performed on the site of the Shalkiya polymetallic ores deposit in Kyzylorda Region, Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Works shall be completed:

– main mining development works – 4 (four) years from the Contract signing date;

– construction and assembly works for ore crushing and transport complex – 6 (six) months from the equipment delivery date in accordance with the respective schedule.

Prequalification and tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to companies and associations of companies (consortia) from any country.

Prequalification documents may be obtained from the office at the address below.

Prequalification documents are available in the PDF format. To get a download link, please email your request to: k.arshabekov@zinc.kz, a.sharapov@zinc.kz The request must be accompanied by a confidentiality undertaking in the form attached to this Invitation for Prequalification of Tenderers and signed by the applicant. In the absence of a confidentiality undertaking the prequalification documents will not be furnished.

In the request for information please indicate if you are willing and ready to participate in the clarification meeting which is planned to be held in [Astana].

Prequalification applications must be duly completed and delivered to: 7 Al-Farabi Avenue, Block 4A, Office 38, Almaty, 050000, Republic of Kazakhstan, not later than 11:00 AM (Almaty time) on March 3, 2017.

Documents which are received after this deadline may be rejected and returned unopened to the applicant.

Interested companies may obtain further information from, and inspect and obtain the prequalification documents at the following office:

ShalkiyaZinc LTD JSC, 7 Al-Farabi Avenue, Block 4A, Office 38, Almaty, 050000, Republic of Kazakhstan. +7727 311 0624, +7727 311 0625. Contact person: Koblan Arshabekov, k.arshabekov@zinc.kz