Invitation For Proposals for MCA-Mongolia Consultancy Services For Rail Audit - Railway Modernization Project

(Auditing of the Accounts of the Ulaanbaatar Railway Joint Stock Company)

RFP Ref: CA/MCA-M/MCC/RAIL/CS/01/2008

1. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (“MCC”) and the Government of Mongolia (the “Government”) have entered into a Millennium Challenge Compact (the “Compact”) for Millennium Challenge Account assistance to help facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth in Mongolia in the amount of approximately Two Hundred and Eighty Five million USD (“MCC funding”). The Millennium Challenge Account Mongolia (“MCA-Mongolia”) on behalf of the Government intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of MCC funding to eligible payments under this contract. Payments by MCA-Mongolia will be subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions, including restrictions on the use of MCC funding, of the Compact. No party other than the Government and MCA-Mongolia shall derive any rights from the Compact or have any claim to the proceeds of MCC funding.

2. This Invitation for Proposals follows the General Procurement Notice that UNDB online (www.devbusiness.com) and dgMarket (www.dgmarket.com) on February 8th 2008

3. MCA-Mongolia now invites sealed Proposals to provide the consultant services shown above. More details on the services are provided in the Terms of Reference of the Request for Proposals (“RFP”).

4. This RFP is open to all eligible Consultants who wish to respond to the RFP. Association among Foreign and Local Consultants is encouraged, but it is not mandatory. Consultants may only associate with each other in the form of a joint venture or in a sub-consultancy agreement to complement their respective areas of expertise to enhance their capacity to successfully carry out the assignment.

5. A Consultant will be selected under the Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method, the evaluation procedure for which is described in RFP in accordance with “MCC Program Procurement Guidelines” which are provided on the MCC website www.mcc.gov.

6. This invitation seeks technical and financial proposals for the auditing of the accounts of the Ulaanbaatar Railway Joint Stock Company for years of 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The base contract will cover financial audits for fiscal years of 2007 (2007 is actually projected as a review with major remediation steps as the combined deliverable) and 2008, with option periods covering fiscal years of 2009 through 2011.

7. MCA-Mongolia will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. Evaluation of options will not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

8. The RFP Document includes the following Sections:

Section I: Instructions to Consultants
Section 2: Proposal Data Sheet
Section 3: Qualification and Evaluation Criteria
Section 4A: Technical Proposal Forms
Section 4B: Financial Proposal Forms
Section 5: Contract Forms:
Section 6: Terms of Reference

9. This Invitation will be placed on the MCA-Mongolia website at http://www.mca.mn, from the date of this issue and prospective Consultants interested in submitting a Proposal should submit their request by e-mail, giving full contact details of the prospective Consultant, to: gerelbat@mca.mn, B.Gerelbat, Procurement Director MCA-Mongolia and mongoliapa@crownagents.com, M.Costen, Procurement Agent Manager so that RFP may be issued by MCA-Mongolia.

10. A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m (local time) on 25 June 2008 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia at the below address. Attendance is strongly advised for all prospective Consultants or their representatives but is not mandatory.

11. The deadline for submission of Proposals will be 15:00 (local time) on 24 July 2008.

12. Upon receipt of this letter, please inform us in writing at the address shown below, or by electronic mail at the email addresses shown above:

(a) that you received the Letter of Invitation; and
(b) whether you will submit a proposal alone or in association