Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-08
Buyer: MULONGA WATER AND SEWERAGE COMPANY LIMITED
Country: ZM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services
Submission deadline: 2017-08-09

Technical requirements: EIB - Design review and construction supervision services of water and wastewater treatment facilities (ZM-Chingola)
PROVISION OF DESIGN REVIEW AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION SERVICES IN RELATION TO THE DESIGN AND BUILD OF WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES
Mulonga Water and Sewerage Company Limited (MWSC) has, through the Government of the Republic of Zambia, received a total of € 150 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB), Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), The European Union and directly from the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) for the financing of the Zambia Water and Sanitation Project (ZWSP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards consulting services. The services required are for the Design Review and Construction Supervision of Water and Sewerage Treatment Facilities in the towns of Chingola, Chililabombwe and Mufulira within Zambia’s Copperbelt Province.
MWSC presently operates 8 Water Treatment Plants with design capacities ranging from 14MLD to 70MLD; and 17 Wastewater Treatment facilities along with their associated systems including raw water intake, conveyance and storage systems.
MWSC intends to procure Design and Build (D&B) Contractor(s) to carry out the rehabilitation and/or upgrade of water and wastewater sewage treatment facilities to enable sustainable provision of services within the towns of Mufulira, Chingola and Chililabombwe.
MWSC therefore requires the services of a Design Review and Construction Supervision Consultant to ensure that the D&B Contractor(s) adhere(s) to the specifications and performance requirements set out in the D&B Contract(s) with MWSC.
2.2. Review detailed designs prepared by the D&B contractor(s) in accordance with the design criteria and functional/performance requirements specified in the bid and contract documents to ensure long term stability and operating life of all structures.
2.4. Support MWSC’s Project Implementation Unit in the overall project management and implementation as agreed with MWSC’s Director for Infrastructure Development.
The maximum estimated budget for the required services is € 2 million. The duration of the service contract is about 30 months.
1) Design of raw water intake systems including experience in coarse and mechanically cleaned fine screens and pontoons, raw water pipelines and pumping stations
2) Design of water treatment plants (with water source being surface water and or ground water, excluding sea/saline water)
The eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection shall follow the Restricted Tendering procedures specified by the Zambia Public Procurement Authority (ZPPA) and the European EIB Guide to Procurement. Where the two conflict, the EIB guideline shall take precedence.
Expression of Interest is open to all eligible local and foreign based Consulting Firms as required by the EIB. The EIB shall not provide finance, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of, award a contract under any EIB Project to, or enter into any relationship with, an individual or entity who is subject to financial sanctions imposed by the European Union pursuant to Chapter 2 of Title V of the Treaty on European Union or article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, either autonomously or pursuant to the financial sanctions decided by the United Nations Security Council on the basis of article 41 of the UN Charter. This applies without the need for the Exclusion Proceedings. The attention of interested Consulting Firms is also drawn to section 1.5 of the EIB Guide to Procurement (June 2011).
Economic and financial capacity: The candidate must provide evidence of its annual turnover (if the candidate is an individual company) or the average turnover (where the candidate is a consortium) in the last 3 years for which the accounts have been closed. The annual turnover must be at least 1.5 times the estimated maximum budget for required services. The candidate (where the candidate is a consortium, each member of the consortium) must provide information on its cash and cash equivalents for these years (excluding this contract).
The candidate must provide information on its professional capacity such as the minimum number of permanent staff in the last 3 years.