Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-12-21
Buyer: Public Utility Company "Lutskvodokanal" (Lutsk Utility of Water and Sewage)
Country: UA
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45252127
Submission deadline: 2022-02-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract will be financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and subject to EIB's Guide to Procurement.
Ukraine Municipal Infrastructure Programme / Rehabilitation of Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Lutsk
The procuring entity intends to apply a part of financing allocated under the Ukraine Municipal Infrastructure Programme (UMIP) to eligible payments to a qualified contractor under the contract for the Rehabilitation of Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Lutsk.
The Contractor’s scope of work includes the rehabilitation of existing Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lutsk with design capacity of about 75,000 m3/day. The scope of works includes, but not limited to, design and installation of new automated screening facility, new sand traps with grease removal system, automated flow metering unit and automated sampling station, rehabilitation of the secondary sedimentation tanks, phosphorous removal facility, aeration tanks and related aeration system, new sludge storage facility, SCADA system, etc, including all related civil, mechanical and electrical works, testing and commissioning of fully functional WWTP.
Open procedure will be conducted in accordance with the procurement framework of the European Investment Bank (EIB) as detailed in the latest revision of the Guide to Procurement for Projects Financed by the EIB (EIB’s GtP) available online at https://www.eib.org/en/publications/guide-to-procurement.
Firms, including joint ventures, consortia or associations (JVCA) and their individual members, originating from all countries of the world are eligible to tender for the contract. In the case of a JVCA, all member firms of the joint venture shall be liable jointly and severally for the execution of the contract if an award is made. A firm or a member of a JVCA may participate in only one tender for the Contract, either individually or as a partner in a JVCA. However, this does not limit the inclusion of the same subcontractors in more than one tender. Government-owned entities in Ukraine shall be eligible only if they can establish that they: (i) are legally and financially autonomous; (ii) operate under the principles of commercial law; and (iii) are not dependent agencies of the Employer.
A Tenderer shall furnish with its Tender the original of a tender security based on the form included in the procurement documents (tender documents). The tender security amount shall be at least EUR 160 000.00 (one hundred sixty thousand Euro) or equivalent in a freely convertible currency or Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH) determined based on the official exchange rate of the Ukrainian Hryvnia established by the National Bank of Ukraine (www.bank.gov.ua) on the date twenty-eight (28) days prior to the tender submission deadline.
The issuing bank of the tender security shall have a minimum credit rating of: not lower than "uaAAA" (in the case of the absence of a rating on a national scale from banks of foreign banking groups, the rating of parent foreign bank groups from one of the rating companies shall be not lower than: Fitch – ‘BBB-‘, Moody's – ‘Baa3’, and S&P – ‘BBB-‘.
If the guarantee is issued by a financial institution located outside the Employer’s country, the issuing financial institution shall have a correspondent financial institution located in the Employer’s Country to make it enforceable. If the JVCA has not been legally constituted into a legally enforceable JVCA at the time of submission of Proposals, the Tender Security shall be in the name of a Lead partner of the JVCA on condition that the tender security clearly specifies the names of all future partners of the JVCA as named in the letter of intent referred to and states that the security is submitted for and on behalf of the JVCA.
Tenders shall be prepared and submitted pursuant to the requirements, procedures and forms provided in the procurement documents available upon written application to the email address of the procuring entity indicated in Section I above and payment of a non-refundable fee of EUR 200,00 (two hundred Euros) or UAH 6 100,00 (six thousand one hundred Ukrainian Hryvnia) to the bank account provided by the procuring entity in response to the application.
Failure to furnish all information or documentation required by the procurement documents may result in rejection of the tender.
Extension of completion period and variations of contract price are possible under the contract conditions.
PUC “Lutskvodokanal” (Lutsk Utility of Water and Sewage) 26 Dubnivska Street, 4th floor, Assembly Hall, Lutsk 43010 Ukraine
All tenders received before the time limit will be opened in the presence of designated tenderers’ representatives and anyone who chooses to attend. The tenderers’ representatives who are present shall sign a register evidencing their attendance (the right to represent a tenderer shall be confirmed by valid Power of Attorney)

Eligibility requirements: Stated in the procurement documents