Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-06
Buyer: Purchasing entity Batumi Autotransport LTD
Country: GE
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34121100: Public-service buses | 34121400
Submission deadline: 2018-03-15
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: This invitation for tenders follows the general procurement notice for this project which was published on the European Bank for reconstruction and development (the Bank) website, procurement notices (www.ebrd.com) on 13.4.2017.
Batumi autotransport LLC hereinafter referred to as “the purchaser”, intends to use part of the proceeds of a loan from the Bank towards the cost of Batumi bus project.
The purchaser now invites sealed tenders from Suppliers for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan:
Tendering for contracts that are to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from any country.
a) The tenderer, or any partner in a JVCA, shall not have a consistent history of litigation and/or arbitration resulting in awards against the tenderer, or any partner in a JVCA, within the last 3 years.
b) Average annual turnover as prime supplier (defined as billing for goods and services delivered and under delivery) over the last 3 years 8 000 000 EUR equivalent and with not less than 5 000 000 EUR equivalent of these total revenues from the sales of diesel buses in the last year of the above indicated 3 year period.
c) The tenderer must demonstrate 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 to meet (i) the cash flow for a period of three months estimated as not less than 3 000 000 EUR, and (ii) overall cash flow requirements for this contract and its current commitments.
d) The audited balance sheets, or if not required by the law of the tenderer’s country, other financial statements acceptable to the purchaser, for the last 3 years shall be submitted and must demonstrate the current soundness of the tenderer’s financial position and its prospective long term profitability.
e) In the case of a tenderer offering to supply goods under the contract which the tenderer does not manufacture or otherwise produce, the tenderer has been duly authorised by the manufacturer or producer of the goods to supply the goods in the purchaser’s country in accordance with the requirements of the tender documents;
f) The tenderer or the manufacturer has conducted a successful delivery of at least 150 new public transport buses of any model over 11TGVW over the past three years, including deliveries outside of the tenderer’s and the manufacturer’s country.
g) The tenderer or the manufacturer, if the tenderer is not a manufacturer himself, shall have at least 10 years of experience of manufacturing public transport buses of any model over 11T GVW;
h) The manufacturing plant to be used for the manufacture of the buses in question — in the event of contract award — must have been used for the manufacture of buses for 36 months and during the last 12 months shall have been used for the manufacture of the same or similar type of buses prior to the date of the tender release.
i) The tenderer must demonstrate evidence of its capability to carry out the supplier’s maintenance, repair and spare parts stocking obligations prescribed in the tender documents.
j) The tenderer and the manufacturer (plant) must have an independently certified quality management system (to ISO 9001, or its equivalent) and environmental management system (to ISO 14001, or its equivalent).
Joint venture, consortium, or association (JVCA) shall satisfy the following minimum qualification criteria: