Tender for the Procurement of Seed Wheat and Barley

September 5, 2007

CNFA Inc. announces a tender for the procurement of 560 tonnes of winter wheat seeds (1st reproduction) and 140 tonnes of winter barley seeds (1st reproduction).

The offered seeds should be:

• Treated with materials for seed treatment
• Accompanied by Quality Certificates
• Packed in 50 kg sacks for wheat and 40 kg sacks for barley

The supplier shall deliver the seeds in the following raional centers: Telenesti, Orhei, Singerei, Rezina and Soldanesti.

The quotes should be presented to the CNFA office by Friday, September 7 2007, 5:00 pm. Successful bidder(s) will be notified on Saturday September 8, 2007.

The purchased seeds shall be distributed free by CNFA to farmers that suffered from this year’s drought, in the framework of the immediate assistance provided by the US Government to Republic of Moldova. With this in mind, successful bidder(s) will provide at least 25% of the seeds for distribution by September 13 at raional sites designated by CNFA in the procurement letter, with the remaining 75 % to be delivered to designated raional sites by September 17, 2007

Other technical details for suppliers:

CNFA will purchase seeds in accordance with the following Seed Grower’s Certification Requirements:

(A) The recipient shall obtain from the suppliers of all seeds procured under US Government immediate assistance to the Republic of Moldova a “SEED GROWERS CERTIFICATE”, which attest the following:

(i) The seed was grown in (Name of Country)

(ii) The seed was sampled by an official of, and tested in, a laboratory of (Name of Country and City)

(iii) The seed was put up in packages of containers used by end-users, labeled with all the following:

• Seed lot number;
• Kind, or kind and variety;
• Weed seeds;
• Inert matter;
• Germination and hard seed;
• Names and rates of noxious weed-seed occurrence (which must conform to the laws of the importing country);
• Month/year in which purity and germination tests were completed; and
• If seed was treated, chemicals with which treated and cautionary statement, if advisable.

(iv)Not more than twelve (12) calendar months have elapsed since the last day of the month when germination tests were completed (when seed is packed in hermetically sealed containers).

(v)Samples of the shipping lot will be retained for one (1) year by the (Grower), and a copy of the laboratory purity and germination test analysis will be retained by the laboratory for not less than three (3) years.

(B) The laboratory report shall be prepared under the letterhead of the laboratory, dated, and signed by a person, such as a seed technologist, making the analysis, and shall be attached to the “SEED GROWER’S CERTIFICATE”.

(C) The “SEED GROWER’S CERTIFICATE” shall be issued under the letterhead of the Grower. It shall identify the Supplier’s transaction by letter of credit number and bank, and identify the lot involved. The Certificate shall be dated and signed by an individual authorized to bind the Grower and shall be issued to the Supplier.