Tamar Tsenteradze - Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Aff has submitted the Procurement Plan for Georgia - P173911 - Georgia Emergency COVID-19 Response Project to the Bank for Review

Dear Volkan and Maddalena,

This is to update the procurement plane to reflect three (3) awarded contracts through direct contracting. These activites were duly submitted to and cleared by the Bank. In particular:

1. Activity #COVID19/G/DC-01 was cleared on May 7, 2020. The invitation for direct contracting was sent on May 13. The offer was received on May 15. The negotiation was held and contract was signed on May 17. The goods were dilivered on May 19. This communication is to further process the activity through STEP.

2. Activity #COVID19/G/DC-02 was cleared on May 13, 2020. The invitation for direct contracting was sent on May 14. The offer was received on May 14. The negotiation was held and contract was signed on May 20. The contract is under implementation. This communication is to further process the activity through STEP.

3. Activity #COVID19/G/DC-02 was cleared on May 7, 2020. The invitation for direct contracting was sent on May 14. The offer was received on May 19. The negotiation was held and contract was signed on May 21. The contract is under implementation. This communication is to further process the activity through STEP.

4. Consequent adjustement has been made to the activities #COVID19/G/DC-06 and COVID19/G/DC-07 to redcrease the total sum allocated to each of these activities by the amount awarded to above contracts. In particular, the total amount for activity #COVID19/G/DC-06 was reduced from $16,950,000 to $16, 231,524 to reflect the amount of two (2) awarded contracts under this category (Procurement of Critical Care Ventilator - $405,000; Procurement of Mobile Emergency Ventilators - $313,476); total amoun for activity #COVID19/G/DC-07 was reduced from $5M to $4,844,000 to reflect the total amount of $156,000 awarded through direct contracting for Procurement of Rapid COVID-19 Test Cassette. 

As you know, the list of items to be procured under activities #COVID19/G/DC-06 and COVID19/G/DC-07 is sent to UN agencies and Bank (under BFP) for quotation. Consequent adjustements will be made to above activities reflecting the received offers and respective contracts. This is duly agreed with the Bank.

Please review the updated procurement plan and make necessary steps in order to enable us to upload singned contracts in STEP.

Kind regards,

MoILSHA

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