Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-05-20
Buyer: Roads Department of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia
Country: GE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71356200
Submission deadline: 2020-07-06

Technical requirements: The procurement process adopted by the contracting authority for the purpose of this contract is an international competitive bidding with pre-qualification, also referred to as the restricted tender procedure as defined by the EIB’s Guide to Procurement (September 2018). The procedure will be conducted as per the national procurement legislation on State Procurement, aligned with the EIB Guide to Procurement version 2018. This procedure comprises two separate stages:
Stage 1: of this process is the pre-qualification process, which is designed to identify eligible and suitable candidates for this contract.
Stage 2: will be a formal tender process involving only the shortlisted candidates identified and selected as eligible and suitable as a result of the pre-qualification.
In detail, during the first stage, any candidate may submit a request to participate in the tendering process. Once the applications are received, the ones submitted on time will be evaluated according to the exclusion, selection and shortlisting criteria established in the present notice. The shortlisting of applicants will be conducted on a non-discriminatory basis, following the application of objective criteria, as explained in the sections below. Subsequently, the contracting authority will then send requests for proposals (RFP) to the shortlisted applicants. All proposals subsequently received (that are compliant i.e. submitted in accordance with the tendering instructions) will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation (award) criteria as set out in the present notice and in the RFP document.
A candidate with the most economically advantageous proposal (80 % quality and 20 % price) will be awarded the contract.
Georgia Transport Connectivity II (GTC II) is expected to be implemented between 2019 and 2023. It will be a complimentary platform to continue supporting Georgia in reaching its international connectivity and local mobility objectives.
The Government of Georgia has requested financing from the EIB for the new construction of the section from Algeti to Araflo (Lot-3) being approximately 13.0 km long and Araflo to Sadakhlo at the Armenian border (LOT-4) being approximately 16.3 km long under the GTC II Framework Loan.
The Government of Georgia has requested financing from the EIB for the new construction of the section from Algeti to Araflo (LOT-3) being approximately 13.0 km long and Araflo to Sadakhlo at the Armenian border (LOT-4) being approximately 16.3 km long. The section starts at the Algeti interchange from which branches the section to Sadakhlo at the Armenian border, lots 3 and 4.
The road will be four lane grade separated motorway designed according to TEM standards. The road configuration is constructed with the rigid pavement width of 22~ 25 m average with hard shoulder. The road drainage system is provided in the middle of the road section. The motorway is 4 x 3.75 m width with hard shoulder of 2.5 m wide. The lighting system is designed on the median.
The design speed is 120 km/ph. 4 m wide median with New Jersey Barriers is planned for the entire stretch of the project. Asphalt concrete pavement is used on bridges, overpasses, and access road connections. Lots 3 and 4 have two bridges each and also two grade separated intersections each.
The contracting authority wishes to engage a consultant (the ‘Consultant‘) to perform the role of construction supervisor and engineer in accordance with FIDIC conditions of contract (the ‘Assignment’). Construction works will include the section from Algeti to Araflo (LOT-3) being approximately 13.0 km long and Araflo to Sadakhlo at the Armenian border (lot-4) being approximately 16.3 km long, as described in Item 6 above. It is envisaged that all construction contracts will be based in FIDIC MDB Harmonized conditions of contract.
— ensure that the works are implemented on time, according to specifications and within the budget from the works contracts, the Georgian legislative system and regulations and as agreed with the financing authorities; and
Participation is open to firms originating from all countries of the world in accordance with the EIB Guide to Procurement https://www.eib.org/en/infocentre/publications/all/guide-toprocurement.htm
All eligible legal persons (as per item 12 above) or groupings 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. Maximum number of allowable consortium members is 3. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority.
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those mentioned in the shortlisted application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the contract in question.