Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-02-14
Buyer: ‘Transport Project Implementation Organization’ SNCO
Country: AM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71356200
Submission deadline: 2020-03-16
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: The procurement process adopted by the contracting authority for the purpose of this contract is QCBS method (Quality Cost Based Selection method), also referred to as the restricted tender procedure as defined by the guide to procurement for projects financed by the EIB.
QCBS uses a competitive process among short-listed firms that takes into account the quality of the proposal and the cost of the services in the selection of the successful firm. The procedure includes the following stages:
The minimum technical score (St) required to pass will be: 750 (on a scale of 1 to 1 000). The weights given to the technical (T) and financial (P) proposals will be T = 80 % and, P = 20 %.
Selection process is open to all eligible consultants as defined in the paragraph 3.2 of the Guide to Procurement of the European Investment Bank. Consultants may apply solely or in association with the other eligible firms in the form of a joint venture or of a sub-consultancy agreement.
Maximum number of allowable members of such kind of consortium is 3. No more than 1 application can be submitted by a consultant (as solely or as a member of JV), otherwise all applications submitted by the consultant will be excluded.
Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other in the frames of this assignment.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.5 of the Guide to Procurement of the European Investment Bank, setting forth the Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
‘North-South Road Corridor Investment Program’ is a major infrastructure project (here after NSRCIP project) which aims at connecting the Southern border of the country with its Northern point by means of 556 km — long Meghri — Yerevan — Bavra highway by reducing it to about 85 km and reaching up to 470 km. North South Corridor is also a part of the Asian Highway corridor (AH 82) which connects the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). As a result, the reconstruction of the current road of 556 km of the 2
The Program is divided into several tranches. The tranches 1, 2, 3 (Yerevan to Gyumri) together with the Northern tranche 5 (Gyumri to Bavra) represent 170 km of the total length of the NSRC as follows:
Tranche 1: Yerevan/Northern outskirt to Ashtarak, improvement of 11,4 km of dual (2 x 2) carriageway;
Tranche 5: Gyumri to the Georgian Border at Brava improvement of some 70 km 2-lane road, including Gyumri Bypass;
Tranche 4 is southern part of NSRC from Artashak to Kajaran, which consist from upgrading and construction of about 304 km 2-lane single carriageway road.
The Transport Project Implementation Organization of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Borrower’) has received a loan from the European Investment Bank – EIB (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Bank’) – towards the cost of the North-South Road Corridor Investment Program.
The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia (MTAI), the executing agency for Tranche 3 and the client, through its project implementation unit (PIU), the ‘Transport Project Implementation Organization’ SNCO, seeks to engage an international engineering consulting firm (Consultant) for:
(i) supervision of the civil works on widening and improvement of the road between LanjikGyumri 27,47 km road section in compliance with the standards and specifications produced by the client. The works will be executed under the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) Conditions of Contract for construction for building and engineering works designed by the employer (Multilateral Development Bank Harmonized Edition, June 2010) to be procured in compliance with the EIB's international competitive bidding procedures. The services for Tranche 3 construction supervision will be implemented over a