Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-04-05
Region: ME000
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services
Submission deadline: 2024-05-17
Award criteria: price

Technical requirements: Scope of this procurement includes supervision of Works as a FIDIC Engineer in accordance with the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for construction of a wastewater transmission system and for design and reconstruction of a WWTP, including Pre-Construction Activities, Design Review Activities, Construction Activities and Post-Construction Activities. The supervision of Works shall be implemented in compliance with the requirements of the Montenegrin legislation and relevant EU and EIB requirements. The Consultant must particularly consider licensing and permits requirements in the Law on Planning and Construction of Structures in Montenegro in force.
The indicative scope of Works covers the construction of sewerage network consisting of the following elements:
Section 1: Sewerage network
- Separation of storm water and sewerage networks in the city centre in city centre for a length of 2,060 m
- Construction of sewerage network in settlements Ambarine, Juškovića potok and Podbišće in total length of 7.99 km
Section 2: Rehabilitation of wastewater treatment plant
Rehabilitated and upgraded WWTP in proper operation. The WWTP shall be designed for two Phases, with an ultimate capacity being 7,300 PE and Phase 1 as 5,250 PE. The effluent capacity will be increased from 580 m³/d to 1,178 m³/d
Total expected contract duration is 40 months, of which are estimated 1 month until commencement date of the Works Contract, 24 months including Inception Period implementation, 12 months DNP of the Works Contract and 3 months contract(s) closure procedures.
The provisional commencement date is December 2024.
Specific conditions of participation: Participation is open to all natural persons and legal persons (participating either individually or in a grouping – consortium – of candidates/tenderers) originating from all countries of the world. Participation is also open to international organisations.
All eligible natural and legal persons (as above) or grouping of such persons (consortia) may apply. A consortium may be a permanent, legally established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure.
All partners of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all other partners) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority. The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person will result in the automatic exclusion of that person and, if a member of a consortium, of the whole consortium.
A subcontractor is not considered to be a consortium member for the purposes of this application.
No more than one application or tender can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an application/tender). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application or tender, all applications or tenders in which that person has participated will be excluded.
Shortlist alliances are prohibited. Any tenders received from tenderers having a different composition that the ones mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure, unless prior approval from the contracting authority has been obtained (see §2.6.3 of the PRAG).
Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the contract in question. 
See also “Additional information” in “Section VI: Complementary information” below.
Indicative scope of Works on the project “Wastewater Management System Improvement in the Municipality of Mojkovac” includes the following elements:
- Section 1: Construction of sewerage network, separation of wastewater and storm water network in the city centre and construction of new network, which will serve to 2,500 inhabitants.
- Section 2: Rehabilitation of wastewater treatment plant
Rehabilitated and upgraded WWTP in proper operation. The WWTP shall be designed for two Phases, with an ultimate capacity being 7,300 PE and Phase 1 as 5,250 PE. Rehabilitation Works will cover Phase 1 (5,250 PE).
Scope of procurement is Supervision of Works on construction of sewerage network, provision of the official review of the Detailed Design for the WWTP and supervision of Works on rehabilitation of the WWTP.
Works will be implemented according to FIDIC Red Book (1999 ed) including lump sum design-build activities for WWTP.
The operational base for the Project is the Municipality of Mojkovac in the Northern part of Montenegro.
The reference period which will be taken into account will be the last five years preceding the submission 
deadline. With reference to chapters 4 and 5 of the application form, the candidate has:
a) The candidate (each sole candidate or, in case of a consortium each member of the consortium) shall have 
professional licences, certificates, rights or equivalent for performance of the construction supervision services 
for sewerage networks and wastewater treatment plants in accordance with the laws of the country in which the 
candidate is established (a copy must be included in the application);
b) at least 10 staff currently working for the candidate in fields related to this contract (wastewater, environment);
c) at least 5 staff currently working for the candidate in fields related to this contract (wastewater, environment) 
are permanent.
With reference to chapter 3 of the application form:
a) The average annual turnover of the candidate for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 must exceed 
300,000 EUR; and
b) Current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) in the last year for which accounts have been closed must be 
at least 1; in case of a consortium this criterion must be fulfilled by each member
Financial data to be provided by the candidate in the Application form or in the tender submission form must 
be expressed in EUR. If applicable, where a candidate refers to amounts originally expressed in a different 
currency, the conversion to EUR shall be made in accordance with the InforEuro exchange rate of January 
2024, which can be found at the following address:
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/graphs/inforeuro.html