This Invitation for Bids (IFB) follows the General Procurement Notice (GPN) for this project which was published on the websites of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) (www.isdb.org) on 19.04.2015, Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan (www.minzdrav.uz) on 24.04.2015, and in the newspaper Guardian Weekly on 21.08.2015, issue no. 11 (vol 193). The Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan has applied for financing from the IDB toward the cost of “Support to Equipping State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Centers with Laboratory Equipment Project in the Republic of Uzbekistan”, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this financing to payments under the contract for Procurement of Laboratory Equipment, ICB No: UZB-0073/ICB/01.