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MDB Tender Checklist for FIDIC projects
Screen the tender package before pricing: FIDIC form, bank conditions, local law interface, ESHS and risk transfer.
MDB Tender Checklist
A pre-bid checklist for World Bank, ADB, EBRD and other MDB projects: COPA, Particular Conditions, ESHS, securities and claims workflow.
- Exact form and edition
Red/Pink/Yellow/Silver, year, reprint, MDB harmonised text and Particular Conditions.
- COPA / Contract Data
Time limits, caps, securities, governing law, dispute forum, Engineer and notice addresses.
- Local law interface
Public procurement, permits, tax, payment currency and mandatory approvals.
- ESHS and integrity
Reporting, audit rights, sanctions, personnel, subcontractor flow-down and incident notices.
- Claims readiness
Notice register, records discipline, EOT logic and DAAB route from day one.
Why this exists
On MDB projects the price is submitted before most risks become visible, and the risk allocation cannot be renegotiated afterwards. The checklist serves one purpose: to work through the tender package before pricing and find where the bank’s conditions, the Particular Conditions and local law diverge from base FIDIC. Every such divergence is either a clarification question or a contingency in the price.
Who it is for
- Tender team — runs the checklist before pricing, not after.
- Project counsel — checks how the Particular Conditions meet the governing law and the bank’s procurement rules.
- Contract manager — takes the package over knowing which risks are already priced in.
How to run it on a project
- Start with the Contract Data and COPA, not the General Conditions: the edits live there.
- Log each divergence in one of two columns — a clarification question or a contingency in the price.
- Check that your bank will issue the required guarantees in the required form before bidding, not after award.
- Work the ESHS requirements separately: they need real resources and personnel that have to be priced.
Questions
Can the General Conditions be amended in a bid?
In MDB procurement, generally not: bidders submit on the bank’s terms and deviations can render a bid non-responsive. That is exactly why the clarification stage is the only working window to influence the conditions, and questions there cost far less than claims during execution.
How does bank procurement differ from the national procedure?
Under a loan agreement with a development bank, procurement follows the bank’s rules: its own evaluation criteria, forms, qualification and integrity requirements. Uzbek public procurement law expressly gives priority to an international treaty, so the first thing to establish on a given package is which regime it runs under.