Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2021-03-02
Buyer: United Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC
Country: GE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services | 71521000: Construction-site supervision services
Submission deadline: 2021-03-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Consulting Services on Supervision of Civil Works for Rehabilitation of Water Supply and Sanitation Systems in Khashuri
The United Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC (UWSCG, hereafter referred to as the Employer) has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement (‘AFD’) and a grant from the European Union (‘EU’), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following project: Khashuri Water Supply and Sanitation Project — rehabilitation, extension, and partial operation of the water supply and sanitation systems.
The consultancy services to be provided shall consist of the supervision of the works and associated activities in Khashuri, Georgia.
The consultant will act as the engineer in accordance with FIDIC contract conditions for Lots 1, 2 and as the employer’s representative for Lot 3.
Interested Consulting companies or JVs must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those services. For that purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted. In order to ease the evaluation process, it is required that the application documents do not exceed 70 pages. General expertise requirements for the Consultant are presented above. Detailed expertise requirements will be presented at the next phase (request for proposals).
The UWSCG hereby invites Applicants to show their interest in delivering the services described above.
Eligibility criteria to AFD financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the ‘Procurement Guidelines for AFD Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries’, available online on AFD’s website: http://www.afd.fr.
The applicant shall submit only one application, either in its own name or as a member of a Joint Venture (JV). If an applicant (including any JV member) submits or participates in more than one application, those applications shall be all rejected. However, the same subconsultant may participate in several applications.
A letter of intent to execute a JV Agreement, signed by all members together with a copy of the agreement proposal,
Experiences and qualifications of subconsultants are not taken into account in the evaluation of the applications.
Interested applicants must provide information evidencing that they are qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be submitted.
(ii) reconstruction of headworks, including construction of new borewells, equalizing reservoirs, pumping stations and disinfection stations; and
(iii) construction of new water transmission mains, water distribution pipelines and examination, reconstruction, rehabilitation and extension of sewerage network.
Certification among the submitted applications, the Employer will shortlist a maximum of six (6) applicants, to whom the request for proposals to carry out the services shall be sent.
The United Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC (UWSCG, hereafter referred to as the Employer) has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement (‘AFD’) and a grant from the European Union (‘EU’), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following project: Khashuri Water Supply and Sanitation Project.

Eligibility requirements: The consultancy services to be provided shall consist of the supervision of the following works and associated activities in Khashuri, Georgia: • Lot 1: Upgrade and reconstruction of water supply and sewerage systems (Works will be procured in FIDIC MDB Harmonized Edition). The works will entail: — reconstruction and extension of the water distribution network with house connections and associated structures/devices, i.e. DMA chambers, valves, and other appurtenances; — examination of (i) existing sewers; (ii) a complex design combining existing and new sewers (design by a contractor), and (iii) the construction of selected sections; — crossings of water courses, railway, main road. • Lot 2: Rehabilitation and upgrading of the potable water headworks, with 3 water transmission mains and 3 associated reservoirs sites; construction of a new administration building hosting among others a labolatory, a dispatcher room (central SCADA), and a warehouse. (Works - FIDIC yellow book); • Lot 3: Construction of a new waste water treatment plant (WWTP) with by-pass collector under a design, build and short-term operate mode of contract — DBO. Works will entail demolishing the remaining structures of the existing, abandoned wastewater treatment plant, and the construction of the new one. Operation period shall be 1 year with optional extension up to 3 years. The total investment contemplated for the above mentioned three Works construction packages amounts to approximately EUR 62 million. The estimated amount of the contract for the related supervision services to be provided is EUR 3 million. The consultant will act as the engineer in accordance with FIDIC contract conditions for Lots 1, 2 and as the employer’s representative for Lot 3 and will be responsible for: • review of the detailed design of the abovementioned contract packages for reconstruction and/or construction of water supply and sewage collection systems, and initial operation of the WWTP and 2 headworks in Khashuri; • supervision and management of all construction works for all four abovementioned contract packages on behalf of the Employer, to achieve the Employer’s objectives of completing the contract, including providing all necessary tests, attending and approving commissioning and handing over of the works to the Employer, and monitoring of the defect notification period; • providing on-the-job training to the Employer and PIU engineers; and • as an option, supervision of the short-term operation of the WWTP (1 year with possible extension for another 2 years). The consultancy services under the contemplated contract are to be provided by a team comprised of international and national consultants with rich experience in civil works supervision in the water supply and sanitation sector under the FIDIC contract’s conditions, including supervision of (i) waste water treatment plant construction and short-term operation; (ii) reconstruction, extension, development, and short-term operation of water supply headworks, including construction of new borewells, daily regulation reservoirs, pumping station and chlorination station; and (iii) reconstruction of water transmission pipelines and water and sewerage network. The consultant team will be headed by a team leader/chief resident engineer, and composed of such experts and specialists as resident engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, wastewater and potable water treatment process engineer, social and environmental safeguards specialists, quantity surveyors, etc. The consultant team’s knowledge and good command of FIDIC MDB Harmonized Edition Conditions of Contract and design, build, operate (DBO) contract conditions is a prerequisite.