| Overview : The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) and the Coastal Municipalities water Utility (CMWU), the Employers, hereby invites for application from suitably experienced and established Contractors, for prequalifying for invitation to bid for the construction, installation, commissioning, putting into service and operating the main pressure lines to the sea and to the infiltration basins for Khan Younis Waste Water Treatment Plant. The above works are to be constructed in Khan Younis Governorate in Gaza Strip in the State of Palestine It is intended to establish a list of prequalified contractors who wish to participate in tendering for the construction of works. The same established list of prequalified contractors will be used by both UNDP/PAPP and CMWU for the subsequent tendering processes. UNDP/PAPP and CMWU will carry out these tendering processes for the different construction components of the main pressure lines as aforementioned in separate but coordinated manner. It is expected that the tenders will be invited by UNDP/PAPP and CMWU from the prequalified Contractors in early 2016, that the construction works will commence during 2016 and completed in 24 months + the maintenance period. It is intended that the works of each component will be included in a single contract. Contractors may apply for inclusion of the selected list of contractors/tenderers for the Contracts. Tenderers will only be invited by UNDP/PAPP and CMWU from prequalified contractors whose names will be included in the selected short list. The Contractor (and as applicant and bidder) shall be a private company. Consortiums and Joint Venture proposals will not be accepted. | 
