Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-11
Buyer: Mayor’s Office of the Town of Kara-Suu
Country: KG
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45240000: Construction work for water projects
Submission deadline: 2019-09-02

Technical requirements: This invitation for tenders follows the general procurement notice for this project which was published on European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) website, Procurement Notices (www.ebrd.com) on 8.6.2018.
Municipal Enterprise of Kara Suu city ‘Kara Suu – Taza Suu’, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Employer’, intends using part of the proceeds of a loan from the Bank towards the cost of Kara Suu Water Project.
The employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract[s] to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan. The contract includes:
Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from any country.
The time for completion is 18 months including a 1 month’s allowance for mobilisation. The time for completion (construction period) is followed by a 1-year (365 days) defects notification period.
To be qualified for the award of a contract, tenderers must satisfy i.a. the following minimum criteria:
The tenderer, or any partner in a JVCA, shall not have a consistent history of litigation and/or arbitration resulting in awards against the tenderer, or any partner in a JVCA, within the last 5 (five) years.
The tenderer and each partner in case of JVCA shall submit audited balance sheets for the last three (3) years which should demonstrate the soundness of the tenderer’s financial position by showing long-term profitability.
The tenderer shall have an average annual turnover as contractor or JVCA contractor (defined as billing for works in progress and completed) over the last 3 years of not less than 3 000 000 EUR or the equivalent.
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 construction cash flow for the contract for a period of 4 (four) months, estimated as not less than 500 000 EUR for either lot or the equivalent, taking into account the applicant's commitments for other contracts.
Experience under contracts in the role of contractor or management contractor for the last 5 years prior to the tender submission deadline, and with activity in at least nine (9) months in each year.
(a) participation as contractor or management contractor in at least one (1) contracts within the last three (3) years, each with a value of at least 1 000 000 EUR, that has been successfully and substantially completed and that is similar to the proposed works. The similarity shall be based on the physical size, complexity, methods/technology or other characteristics as described in Section VI, employer’s requirements;
(b) for the above or other contracts executed during the period stipulated in (a) above, a minimum experience in the following 2 key activities:
— 3 contracts in the field of rehabilitation or construction of water supply or waste water supply networks in urban areas with a value of at least 1 000 000 EUR. Of these 3 contracts, at least 1 Contract must include a water reservoir with a capacity > 500 m
— 1 contract in the field of rehabilitation or construction of water supply or waste water supply pipeline with a diameter of at least 300 mm and total length of at least 5 km