Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-07-26
Buyer: SEINFRA Secretaria de Infraestrutura do Estado da Bahia. Coordenação de Licitação (CL).
Country: BR
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45233140: Roadway works

Technical requirements: The State of Bahia has applied for financing in the amount of USD 200.00 m (EUR 175.30 m) million from the European Investment Bank (EIB), towards the cost of the Road Rehabilitation and Safety Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project. This project will be jointly financed by the World Bank (WB) (USD 200 m) and the State of Bahia, as part of the Republic of Brazil (EUR 120 m).
The Project will be implemented by SEINFRA, Secretaria de Infraestrutura do Estado da Bahia. (www.infraestrutura.ba.gov.br)
The project has 4 components, but the EIB will be financing, (totally or partially, depending on the eligibility of the subcomponents) 3 of them: components 2, 3 & 4.
Component 1 relates to Institutional Strengthening. All the other components financed by the EIB are described as follows:
This Component has two clusters: one over 2,370 km and the second with over 1,857 km of existing highways that could be improved as part of the Project. In principle, the Promoter intends to rehabilitate a minimum of 3,500 km that could be further expanded to cover about 4,227 km of the State’s road network, depending on the budget’s level of expenditure.
Subcomponent 2.1: This subcomponent includes rehabilitation and maintenance work through performance-based contracts for rehabilitation and road maintenance (CREMA) on already identified sections of Bahia’s paved highways, including road rehabilitation and maintenance.
Subcomponent 2.2: This subcomponent includes rehabilitation and maintenance works through CREMA-PPP (Public-Private Partnership) or CREMA contracts on about 685 km of identified sections of the Borrower’s paved highways, including, road rehabilitation and maintenance. The “CREMA-PPP” contract (s) would have a ten- to twelve-year term.
This component supports the accessibility dimension of the Project main objective. It should provide support to improve road accessibility in Bahia through the carrying out of works to eliminate critical spots on selected municipal rural roads in 98 Selected Municipalities (the Municipal Road Subprojects).
This component supports the road safety dimension of the Project main objective, through institutional strengthening and road safety corridors.
Subcomponent 4.1: Institutional strengthening. In (i) defining Bahia’s road safety strategy; (ii) providing training and capacity building to SEINFRA/SIT on road safety; (iii) creating a traffic accident database for Bahia; and (iv) supporting the creation of a Lead Committee for Road Safety in the State.
Subcomponent 4.2: Road safety corridors. This subcomponent would provide support for establishing two Road Safety Corridors, as pilots for future similar projects.
There will be around 20 consultancy service contracts, mainly for design and works supervision, and these be typically less than USD 5.0 m each. There will be also another 50 works contracts (aprox), typically under USD 25 m each, except for approximately 6 of them, that will have a budget over USD 25 m. First bunch of these contracts will be launched for tender starting in July, 2016.
Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank and European Investment Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s 2011 edition of Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans by World Bank borrowers, and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the guidelines.
Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank’s international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures and for contracts for consultancy services will be announced, as they become available, by State of Bahia (through ClientConnection).
The State of Bahia intends to publish bids and contracts in the Official Brazil Journal - DOU, Official Bahia Journal - DOE, and also in a major newspaper.