EXTENDED - Assembly and installation of a scaffold at the Minaret of Jam
United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hereby invites qualified companies to submit sealed tenders as follows:
Initially nominated in 1982, the “Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam” was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2002 and simultaneously placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The property is located in the heart of the Ghor province, around 215 km east of Herat and at ca. 1900 m above sea level, within a rugged valley and at the junction of the Hari and Jam rivers.
The current project “Safeguarding the Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam, Afghanistan – Phase I”, was designed to assist the Government of Afghanistan in its overall purpose of developing a comprehensive conservation plan and implement the required emergency safeguarding measures that contribute to the long-term stabilization of this World Heritage property.
In the context of this project, UNESCO has developed a conservation plan that details the urgent interventions to be undertaken at the site and. This conservation plan puts forward the necessity to install at the Jam Minaret a scaffold that will allow UNESCO to begin an urgent intervention on the Minaret and in particular the reconstruction of the lintels above the windows, the restoration of parts of the wall structures as well as the consolidation work on the remnants of the first balcony.
In accordance with the conservation plan UNESCO plans to install a scaffold up to the first balcony of the minaret, which should be assembled after the flooding season in 2024 by July 2024 and disassembled and stored at the site before the flooding season of 2025, prior to March 20205. The project is expected to span over 9 months. During this period, UNESCO will start urgent restoration work of the Minaret up to the first balcony.
NEW/EXTENDED Closing Date : 18 February 2024, 18:00 Kabul time
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