Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-09-21
Buyer: Joint Stock Company Kyzylorda Regional Electricity Company (KREC)
Country: KZ
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 65310000: Electricity distribution
Submission deadline: 2018-11-01

Technical requirements: BERD - República de Kazajistán, proyecto relativo a la distribución de energía eléctrica de Kyzylorda
Supply and installation of modern metering devices at substations and connection to AMR System (ASKUE)
This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project, which was published in Procurement Opportunities, September 26, 2014 with update on September 5, 2017.
The Employer now invites sealed tenders from Contractors for the following contracts to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan:
— Supply and installation of modern metering devices at substations and connection to AMR (ASKUE) in forty (40) weeks from Contract Effective Date.
The Employer will determine to its satisfaction whether the tenderer meets the qualifying criteria specified herein and based on information submitted has demonstrated that it is capable of performing the contract satisfactorily. The tenderers are requested to provide details and documentary evidence regarding the qualification criteria in the forms mentioned in the following tables.
1) General Experience: 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 three (3) years (i.e. calendar year 2015, 2016 and 2017) of KZT one thousand six hundred (1 600) million equivalent.
— successful experience as a prime contractor in the execution of at least three (3) contracts of a nature and complexity comparable to the proposed contract within the last five (5) years. For assessment purposes the referred contracts shall be not less than equivalent of KZT five hundred (500) million and include the following:
3) Personnel Capabilities: The tenderer shall provide suitably qualified personnel to fill the positions listed below. For each position tenderers shall supply information in the relevant form (refer to Personnel capabilities form) on main and alternate candidates, each of whom should meet the experience requirements specified below:
The tenderer shall assure that proposed personnel to the above listed positions considered by the Employer as complying with the requirements shall be mobilised during contract execution.
— The tenderer shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means sufficient to meet the supply and install cash flow for the contract for a period of forty (40) weeks, estimated as not less than KZT four hundred (400) million equivalent, taking into account the tenderer's commitments in other contracts.
— As a minimum, a Tenderer´s net worth in the last year (2017) calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities should be positive.
5) Non-Performance History: A consistent history of litigation and/or arbitration awards against the tenderer or any partner of a joint venture or their non-performance under the contracts may result in failure of the tender. Moreover, if a tenderer is formally debarred from contracting activities by the law or official regulation of the Employer’s country or by the Bank, and the Employer may not enter into a contract with such tenderer, the Employer may reject the tender.
6) Current Obligations and Pending Awards: The tenderer shall have the above-mentioned resources free of ongoing obligations and/or pending contract awards.
The applicant shall provide information on the on-going contractual obligations and pending contract awards.