NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 18

Industry Development Plans

I, P. E. Donovan, Acting General Manager, Ministry of Commerce, acting under delegated authority, and acting pursuant to regulation 10 of the Import Control Regulations 1988, and subject to the terms and conditions set out in the First Schedule hereto, hereby call for tenders for licences to import the goods specified in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Terms and Conditions

The terms and conditions applicable to this tender round are as follows:

WHO MAY BID

1. Import licence tendering for this tender round is open to all entities which are entitled to obtain an import licence in accordance with the Import Licence Schedule reference to “Who Can Apply”.

CALL FOR TENDERS

2. This notice may be amended or revoked in whole or in part by notice in the New Zealand Gazette.

HOW TO BID

3. Bid forms for this tender (form COM 335A) are supplied with the mailing of the Gazette or they may be obtained from any office of the Ministry. The bid form may be photocopied. Duplicates should not be sent.

   (a) The bid form must be completed in accordance with the instructions on the form, including those on the rear.
   (b) The bid form received by the Ministry of Commerce must bear an original signature in ink.
   (c) Except in the case of zero bids each bid form must have attached to it a bank cheque to the value of the deposit calculated in the manner shown on the bid form (25 percent of the value of the bid), made payable to the Ministry of Commerce. If the deposit includes cents the amount must be rounded up to the nearest dollar.
   (d) Make only one bid per form.
   (e) The premium bid per unit must be in whole dollars. If a premium bid entered includes cents the cents will be ignored and the bid will be ranked at the reduced amount. E.G. $1.58 will be taken as $1.00.
   (f) Bids must be for whole units.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLASSIFICATION

4. It is the tenderer’s responsibility to ensure that the goods to be imported against a given tender number are correctly classified in the Item Code and/or Tariff specified against the relevant tender number and comply with the description against that tender number.

INVALID BIDS

5. Bids in respect of this round will be invalid where:

   (a) Bid is not made on bid form COM 335A.
   (b) The tenderer’s importer code is not given.
   (c) The legal name and/or address of the tenderer is not shown.
   (d) The information supplied is not legible.
   (e) The bid form received does not bear an original signature in ink.
   (f) Bid is not received by the Senior Advisory Officer, Import Licensing Tendering Section, Ministry of Commerce, P.O. Box 3146, Wellington, by 5 p.m. on Thursday, 23 February 1989.
   (g) Tenderer does not meet requirements under Who May Bid.
   (h) The tender number is not shown on the bid form.
   (i) A non-existent tender number is shown.
   (j) The number of units required is not shown on the bid form.
   (k) The premium bid per unit is not shown on the bid form.
   (l) A bank cheque to the value of the deposit shown on the form is not attached to each separate bid form (unless zero bid).
   (m) Payment is not by a bank cheque.
   (n) Payment is not made out to the Ministry of Commerce.
   (o) The value of the cheque is less than the deposit required.
   (p) There is more than one bid on a bid form.
   (q) Bid is received by way of facsimile.

DETERMINATION OF RESULTS

6. All bids will be ranked in order from highest to lowest. Bids of equal value will be ranked on a random selection basis. Licence will be allocated in descending bid order until the available licence amount is exhausted.

7. One licence and one invoice will be produced for each winning bid.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS

8. Each tenderer will be notified in writing of the results of its bids.

9. Results will be published in the Import Licensing Edition of the New Zealand Gazette.