Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-01
Buyer: Unidad Ejecutora de Proyectos Multilaterales de EMAPAG EP.
Country: EC
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 90480000 | 90533000
Submission deadline: 2017-10-02
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: EIB - Guayaquil’s municipal project to provide universal wastewater management services (EC-Guayaquil)
Proyecto de Universalización del Alcantarillado Sanitario y Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales del Sistema Sur de la Ciudad de Guayaquil Planta de Tratamiento Las Esclusas y su Componentes Complementarios
The contract comprises the design and construction of a 4,300 metres long wastewater forcemain, needed to transmit raw wastewater from the discharge of the Pump Station Pradera to the designated receiving site at the Wastewater Treatment Plant Las Esclusas. The pipe internal diameter is 1917 mm ±1% and must be installed using microtunneling (pipe jacking), The project is in an urban setting, at the South of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, near the Guayas river. The contract refers to all design and construction services required for full completion of the project: all civil works (receiving and starting shafts), provision and installation of the forcemain and all materials and electromechanical equipment, acceptance tests, and commissioning. Both, the quality of the design and construction services and the time for delivery of the project (24 months) are important.
03 Construction of Auxiliary Works, Mobilization, Demobilisation, Construction of Work Accesses and Preparation of Work Areas
04 Design, Fabrication and Delivery to the Project Site of the MTBM(s), Auxiliary Equipment and Parts
06 Construction of the Microtunnel and Jacking of the pipe, Including Lubrication, Acceptance Test, and Commissioning
Participation in tendering is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons (participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of tenderers).
Tenderers must submit a signed declaration, included in the Tender Form for a Works Contract, to the effect that they are not in any of the situations listed in point 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide.
Tenderers may submit only one (1) tender for all the lots. Tenders for only one lot of parts of a lot will not be considered. Any tenderer may state in its tender that it would offer a discount if its tender is accepted. Tenderers may not submit a tender for a variant solution in addition to their tender for the works required in the tender dossier.
Tenderers must provide a tender guarantee of US$ 1.500.000 dollars when submitting their tender. This guarantee will be released to unsuccessful tenderers once the tender procedure has been completed and to the successful tenderer(s) upon signature of the contract by all parties.
The successful tenderer will be asked to provide a performance guarantee of 10% of the amount of the contract at the signing of the contract. This guarantee must be provided together with the return of the countersigned contract no later than 30 days after the tenderer receives the contract signed by the Contracting Authority. If the selected tenderer fails to provide such a guarantee within this period, the contract will be void and a new contract may be drawn up and sent to the tenderer which has submitted the next cheapest compliant tender.
No information meeting is planned; however, its mandatory that the Tenderers visit the site before submitting their tender. The Tenders must register their visit to the site with EMAPAG EP.
The maximum time for total completion of the overall project is twenty-four (24) calendar months. Substantial completion (including acceptance test and commissioning) is required by November 30, 2019. Total completion must happen before or up to January 31
Per the criteria used in Section 27 of the Instructions to Tenderers and Section III Evaluation and Scoring Criteria.
If the tenders are deemed non-complaint in any previous steps, it will be rejected and will not go to evaluation in the next step. The Contracting Authority will only evaluate the price proposals of the tenders that comply with all the formal, qualification and technical requirements.