Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-11-28
Buyer: Albanian Roads Authority
Country: AL
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 71300000
Submission deadline: 2019-01-10

Technical requirements: Albanian Roads Authority has secured funding through the EIB to finance a consultant for advisory services to the Construction and Maintenance Department within the Albanian Roads Authority.
— provide expert advice and assistance on project implementation and contract management related to roads investment and construction projects,
— provide continued on the job training to project managers in the CMD tasked with roads project implementation,
— assist in the preparation of future road investment projects. In particular, the TA will assist the CMD in implementing ongoing and planned investments in the national roads network and other as may be identified and developed during the implementation of this TA,
— it is envisaged that the assignment would be carried out over a 30-month period. The contract is expected to start in March 2019 and be completed in September 2021 (with possibility to extend).
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, Albanian Roads Authority, Construction and Maintenance Department now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing an individual expert for technical assistance to the Construction and Maintenance Department within the Albanian Roads Authority. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications. The procurement of the services will be subject to the European Investment Bank's Guide to procurement (available from http://www.eib.org/projects/publications/guide-toprocurement.htm) and will be open to individual consultants from any country.
The Consultant should submit details of experience or similar assignments undertaken in the previous 5 years, inclusive of project title:
— objectives and brief narrative description of the project, functions and tasks carried out, including applicable national and/or international codes and standards.
— TA to government institutions in project preparation, procurement and construction supervision for complex infrastructure projects,
— preparation of tender documents and contract administration of FIDIC based infrastructural construction contracts,
— the candidate has completed at least (2) two projects (with value of services not less than 1 000 000 EUR in each project) in some of the required fields of general expertise described above within the (5) Five calendar year period prior to the year of closing date for submission of applications, or started such projects no later than 2016,
— the candidate has implemented at least (2) two projects (with value of services not less than 500 000 EUR in each project) related to infrastructure construction monitoring and supervision in the IPA regions within the (5) five calendar year period prior to the year of closing date for submission of applications, or started such projects no later than 2016,
— the average annual turnover of the candidate in the last (5) five years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017) must exceed 1 500 000 EUR,
Consultant’s Expressions of Interest must be delivered to the address below by 10.1.2019. Expression of Interest should not exceed a maximum of 25 pages. It can be submitted by e-mail, although the Client cannot accept any responsibility for lost or misplaced documents.
The publication of this invitation for Expression of Interest does not commit the Contracting Authority to implement the Project.