Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-24
Buyer: Municipal Enterprise ‘Kara-Suu Taza-Suu’
Country: KG
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34100000 | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45231300 | 45232430
Submission deadline: 2019-11-20

Technical requirements: This invitation for tenders follows the general procurement notice for this project, which was published on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (referred to herein as ‘the Bank’) website, Procurement Notices (https://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/procurement/notices.html) on 8.6.2018.
Municipal Enterprise of Kara Suu city ‘Kara Suu — Taza Suu’, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Employer’, intents using part of the proceeds of loans received by the Kyrgyz Republic herein referred as ‘the borrower’ from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) and grant from the European Union’s Investment Facility for Central Asia (EU IFCA), administered by EBRD, towards the cost of Kara Suu Water Project targeting rehabilitation and upgrade of the water supply and wastewater treatment infrastructure in the city of Kara-Suu.
The employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loans/grant:
— design and construction of a biological wastewater water treatment plant for a design hydraulic capacity of 97 m
— selection of an effluent discharge point (recipient waterbody or other viable outlet) and obtainment of all required permits/licences,
— depending on the selected effluent discharge point, if required, design and construction of a treated effluent pumping station and transmission pipeline, from the effluent pumping station to the effluent discharge point, with a design capacity of 313 m
— depending on the selected effluent discharge point, if required, design and construction of infrastructure (e.g. storage or infiltration basins) for effluent disposal with a design capacity of 97 m
The conditions of contract shall be FIDIC conditions of contract for plant and design-build (first edition 1999).
The time for completion is 730 calendar days, including a 1 month’s allowance for mobilisation. The time for completion (construction period) is followed by a 1 year (365 calendar days) defects notification period.
Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from all countries. The proceeds of the Bank’s loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
To be considered qualified a contractor (hereinafter referred as ‘Tenderer’) must demonstrate to the employer that it substantially satisfies the requirements regarding experience, personnel, equipment, financial position, non-performance history and other requirements specified in detail in the tender documents and presented briefly below:
The tenderer shall have an average annual turnover (defined as annual earnings, expressed in its equivalent of a defined currency) as a contractor over the last 5 (five) years of 2 000 000 EUR (Euro two million) equivalent.
(a) successful experience as a contractor (prime or subcontractor) in the execution of at least 2 (two) contracts of a magnitude comparable to the proposed contract within the last 10 (ten) years. For assessment purposes the values of the referred contracts shall be not less than the equivalent of 1 200 000 EUR (Euro one million two hundred thousand);
(b) the tenderer or the lead partner in a JVCA shall have acted as a main contractor in 1 (one) contract of a similar magnitude within the last 10 (ten) years. For assessment purposes the values of the referred contracts shall be not less than the equivalent of 1 200 000 EUR (Euro one million two hundred thousand);
(c) successful experience (signed and stamped performance certificate) as a contractor (prime or subcontractor) in the execution of at least 2 (two) contracts of a nature and complexity comparable to the proposed contract within the last 10 (ten) years. For assessment purposes the referred contracts shall include: