Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-18
Buyer: Serbian Railway Infrastructure JSC
Country: RS
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000
Estimated value: 4900000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2020-10-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: This contract will be financed by European Investment Bank (EIB) and is subject to the EIB's Guide to Procurement.
Works Supervision and Support to PIU for Reconstruction and Modernization of Railway line ‘Niš-Dimitrovgrad’
Technical assistance for implementation of reconstruction and modernization of all railway subsystems of the railway line Niš-Dimitrovgrad on TEN-T Core Network. It will include:
(i) supervision and works contract administration according to the relevant national legislation and FIDIC Contract Conditions both for ‘Plant and Design-Build’ (‘Yellow Book’) and for ‘Construction’ (‘Red Book’), First Edition 1999;
(iii) technical assistance to the PIU. There will be several works contracts (at most 4), the implementation of which could partly or completely overlap.
The contract will be performed in the Republic of Serbia, in its ‘Southern and Eastern Region’ from the City of Niš until the border between the Republics of Serbia and Bulgaria.
A. supervision and works contract administration according to the relevant national legislation and FIDIC Contract Conditions both for ‘Plant and Design-Build’ (‘Yellow Book’) and for ‘Construction’ (‘Red Book’), First Edition 1999. The works contracts include:
(a) reconstruction of the permanent way of the single track section from Prosek (Sićevo) to Dimitrovgrad of approx. 82 km (‘Yellow Book’);
(b) construction of a new single track bypass of Niš from the station ‘Niš Marshalling’ to Prosek of approx. 22 km, reconstruction of the single track section from the station ‘Crveni Krst’ to the station Pantelej as well as minor parts of single tracks of the belonging part of Niš Railway Node (‘Red Book’);
(c) electrification of the entire line from the station ‘Niš Marshalling’ to Dimitrovgrad of approx. 105 km including traction substations (‘Red Book’);
(d) signalling and telecommunications of the entire line from the station ‘Niš Marshalling’ to the border with Bulgaria including interfaces with the existing sub-systems (‘Yellow Book’).
B. TSI conformity check of the ‘designs for execution’ and the above summarised works (there are no tunnels of L > 500 m);
C. Technical assistance to the PIU, which can include but not be limited to advise and assistance re:
(b) monitoring and reporting to EC and EIB regarding progress of the works contracts and overall project and compliance with EIB safeguard provisions (e.g. Environmental and Social Action/Management Plan (ESAP and ESMP), Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP)).
Co-financing arrangements: reference is made to &4 of the service prior information notice of 4 August 2020.

Eligibility requirements: With reference to items 4 and 5 of the application form: (a) the minimum total permanent staff number, employed by the candidate in the fields related to supervision of civil engineering works (buildings are excluded) must be at least twenty (20) for last three (3) years preceding the submission deadline; (b) the candidate (each sole applicant or, in case of a consortium each member of the consortium) shall have professional licences, certificates, rights or equivalent for performance of the construction supervision services for public railway projects in accordance with the laws of the country in which the candidate is established.

Award value: 4900000