Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-07-18
Region: AL022
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45220000
Submission deadline: 2024-09-16

Technical requirements: The scope of works will include demolition and clearance of informal housing and other low-rise structures, re-alignment and regulation of a 1.8 km reach of the Lana River, construction of boulevards, including dedicated paths for cyclists and pedestrians, on both sides of the river, construction of a grade separated interchange, at approximately the midpoint of the alignment, construction of two steel girder pedestrian footbridges, construction of pipe networks for stormwater, foul sewerage, firefighting and irrigation water, construction of electrical street and pedestrian area lighting systems and construction of infrastructure for the future installation of traffic signalling, by others.
Experience in the construction of civil infrastructure works, in the role of prime contractor, JVCA member, subcontractor, or management contractor for at least the last 10 (ten) years prior to the submission deadline, and with activity in at least nine (9) months in each of those years.
Average annual turnover for the last 5 years must be EURO 31,000,000 (Thirty one million) or equivalent, and, access to, or availability of financial resources such as liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means, other than any contractual advance payments, of EURO 5,000,000 (Five million equivalent).
a)   Participation as contractor, management contractor, or JCVA member, in at least two  (2) contracts within the last seven (7) years, each with a value of works implemented by the Tenderer of at least ten million Euro (EUR 10,000.000) equivalent, that have been successfully and substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed Works. 
b)    For the above or other contracts executed during the period of the last seven (7) years, the Tenderer shall demonstrate experience in:
•The construction of river rehabilitation or regulation works whose total combined length (across all contracts referenced) shall be not less than four kilometres (4 km).
•The construction of roads / highways whose total combined length (across all contracts referenced) shall be not less than ten kilometres (10 km).
•The construction of at least three (3) road / highway under or overbridges, whose span between abutments was not less than thirty metres (30 m) in each case.
All contracts referenced shall have been successfully or substantially completed. 
c)   Experience in the role of prime contractor, leader of a JVCA, or management contractor in at least one (1) contract for the construction of river or road / highway engineering works, carried out under one of the FIDIC forms of contract and which was at least partially financed by an international financing institution. Any contracts referenced shall have been completed and the Performance Certificate issued.
The contract will be implemented as per FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction for Building and Engineering Works Designed by the Employer, First Edition 1999 “(Red Book)”.
The tenderer (each sole tenderer or, in case of a consortium each member of the consortium) shall   have professional licences, certificates, rights or equivalent for performance of the design and the construction services for relevant projects in accordance with the laws of the country in which the tenderer is established.
All members of a Joint Venture Contracting Arrangement (JVCA) shall be jointly and severally liable with respect to participation in the tender procedure and for the performance of any contract awarded as a result of it.
The Contractor shall comply with the EIB’s Covenant of Integrity, which shall form part of the Contract.
The Contractor shall comply with the EIB’s Environmental and Social Covenant, which shall form part of the Contract.