Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-08-05
Buyer: Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Dhaka WASA)
Country: BD
Region: LU000
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45240000: Construction work for water projects
Estimated value: 362796782.84 EUR
Award criteria: quality, cost
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: Construction of Intake, Raw Water Pumping Station and Raw Water Pipeline including Tunnel Crossing of River.  Abstraction of 950,000 m3/d of raw water from the Meghna River at Haria and conveying it to the Saidabad WTP site to supply a new Phase III WTP as well as providing a new raw water supply to the existing treatment plants built under Phase-I (225,000 m3/d) and Phase-II (225,000 m3/d). The raw water transmission system will consist of a new pumping station and high voltage electric supply at the intake site, and a 25 km long, 2,200 mm diameter, pipeline system comprising multiple river and road crossings and tunnelling under the Sitalakhya River. The works also include interfacing with the existing raw water supply to the Phase I and Phase II WTPs at Mridhabari.
Quality criterion		
1.	Participation in at least three Reference Contracts, comprising civil works in water sector that have been satisfactorily and substantially completed by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the Applicant’s participation exceeds Euro 200 million under each contract.		
2.	Participation in at least two Reference Contracts that have been successfully or substantially completed by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works under each contract includes design and construction of a river water intake of 450MLD minimum capacity. 		
3.	Participation in at least two Reference Contracts that have been successfully or substantially completed by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works under each contract includes design and construction of civil and MEICA installation of pumping station for water supply of 300 MLD minimum capacity.		
4.	Participation in at least two Reference Contracts that have been successfully or substantially completed by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works under each contract includes design and construction of surge suppression system and SCADA for a pipeline conveyance system of minimum capacity 300MLD.		
5.	Participation in at least two Reference Contracts that have been successfully or substantially completed by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works under each contract includes supply and installation of more than 20 km of pipeline of minimum diameter of DN1800 for potable water supply. Out of the two contracts one shall have used steel pipe of the stated length and diameter.		
6.	Participation in at least two Reference Contracts that have been successfully or substantially completed either by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor, or by proposed specialized subcontractors between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works under each contract, (i) includes design and construction of bored tunnelled crossings of major water courses or utilities including motorways or railway tracks (each using either a slurry or earth pressure balanced bored system); and (ii) includes sinking of shafts of diameter greater than 10m and depth greater than 30m and tunnel drives of finished internal diameter equal or greater than 2,800mm and length equal or greater than 1,000m		
7.	Participation in at least one Reference Contract that has been successfully or substantially completed either by the Applicant as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or subcontractor, or by proposed specialized subcontractors between 1st January 2012 and the application submission deadline wherein the scope of works demonstrates experience in the use of seismic design codes for earthquake design of raised embankment for carriageways in areas prone to earthquakes and soil liquefaction.
Cost criterion		
1.	Average Annual Turnover: Minimum average annual construction turnover of Euro 150 million calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last five (5) years		
2.	Availability of Financial Resources: The Applicant shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means (independent of any contractual advance payment) sufficient to meet the construction cash flow requirements estimated as Euro 25 million or the subject contract net of the Applicant's other commitments
Construction of Intake, Raw Water Pumping Station and Raw Water Pipeline including Tunnel Crossing of River.
For Intake Pumping Station : Haria, Sonargaon Upazilla Under Narayangonj District, 
For Raw Water Conveyor : From Haria to Abadi Filling Station, Along Dhaka-Chottogram Highway (N1) from Abadi Filling Station to Kachpur circle, Shitalakshya River Tunneling, along DND Canal, From Mridhabari to Saidabad Water Treatment Plant


Winner: China Machinery Engineering Corporation
Award value: 362796782.84
Number of bids: 3