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PROCUREMENT PLAN 
 
(i) General
1. Project 
Information: 
·
Country:   Moldova 
·
Recipient: 
 
Ministry of Finance 
·
Project Name: 
Second Rural Investment and Services Project 
–
Additional 
Financing 
·
IDA No: 
 
4416 
·
Project Implementation Agencies: Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Agriculture and 
Food Industry 
2. 
Bank’s Approval Date of the Procurement Plan: 
April 11, 2008 
3. 
Expected Date of General Procurement Notice: 
May 2008 
4. 
Period Covered by this procurement plan:  Remaining life of the project (to be updated 
annually) 
 
Procurement Capacity.
The existing Procurement Officer (PO) from CAPMU who was trained 
at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2006 will continue to work in the same 
capacity. The system for the procurement monitoring by the CLD of the MoF for the sub-loans 
under RISP II was assessed during pre-appraisal and found to be adequate. The following actions 
will be taken to further strengthen the procurement capacity of the borrower for project 
implementation: (a) a procurement assistant to the PO shall be hired in CAPMU and receive 
procurement training in a Bank’s regional workshop; (b) CLD shall further conduct its post-
review including procurement under credit lines; and (c)
 
periodic ex-post review by the Bank of 
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in 5 contracts signed by CAPMU, and random post-review sampling of the contracts under 
financing lines shall be conducted during supervision missions. 
Procurement
 
shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements set forth in the 
procurement and consultants guidelines published by the Bank in May 2004 and revised in 
October 2006.  Furthermore, the Project shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of 
the Anti-Corruption guidelines, dated October 15, 2006.  The Procurement Plan as prepared by 
the borrower shall be updated from time to time in accordance with paragraph 1.16 of the 
Procurement Guidelines and paragraph 1.24 of the Consultant Guidelines (“Procurement Plan”), 
based on the following agreed arrangement and the Procurement Plan table below: 
(ii) 
 Goods and Works and non consulting services Procurement:
Decisions subject to Prior Review by Bank are as stated in Appendix 1 to the Guidelines for 
Procurement
:
Procurement 
Method 
Procurement 
Threshold 
Prior/post Review 
1.
ICB 
> US$100,000 
All subject to prior review 
2.
Shopping (Goods) 
< US$100,000 
All subject to post review 
3.
Direct Contracting 
Any amount 
All subject to prior review 
4. 
Commercial 
Practices
<
US$100,000 
All subject to post review 
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Practices 
(iii) 
Selection of Consultants Selection:
Decisions subject to Prior Review by Bank are as stated in Appendix 1 to the Guidelines 
Selection and Employment of Consultants.  Short-list of consultants for services, estimated to 
cost less than $100,000 equivalent per contract, may comprise entirely of national consultants in 
accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2.7 of the Consultant Guidelines. 
 
Selection  Method 
Procurement 
Threshold 
Prior/post Review 
1. 
Competitive Methods  (Firms) 
QCBS 
>
US$100,000 
All subject to prior 
review 
2. Competitive 
Methods 
(Firms) 
LCS, CQ 
<$100,000 
All subject to post review 
3. 
Individual Consultants (IC) 
Any amount 
All subject to post review 
4. 
Single Source (Firms and 
Individuals) 
Any amount 
All subject to prior 
review 
(iii). Commercial Practice in Procurement under Credit Lines
:
Components for sub-loans to be 
carried out with PFIs shall be conducted in accordance with para 3.12 of the Procurement 
Guidelines with the procurement procedures defined in the Rural Investment Guidelines for 
RISP II. 
 
PROCUREMENT PLAN TABLE 
 
Ref
.
No.
Description  
Type
 
Method
 
Review 
by Bank 
Expected 
Proposals 
Submission 
Date
 
1.  
Rural Advisory 
Services (ACSA and 
Service Providers) 
TS  
Direct 
Contract 
Prior 2008-2009 
2.  
Consultant for 
training in irrigation 
CS  
IC 
Post 
August 
2008 
3.  
Environmental 
specialist 
CS  
IC 
Post 
August 
2008 
4.  
Impact assessment 
CS 
 
CQ 
Post 
2010 
5.  
Training for DAs, 
ACSA and CLD 
CS  
CQ 
/ 
agreed 
budget 
Post August 
2008 
6.  
Project Audit 
CS 
 
LCS 
Post 
January 2009
TS 
–
non-consulting services  
CS – consulting services 
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