Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-04
Buyer: Roads Department of Georgia
Country: GE
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45233120: Road construction works | 71520000: Construction supervision services
Submission deadline: 2018-08-20

Technical requirements: Georgia (hereafter referred to as “the Borrower”) has received a loan from the European Investment Bank — EIB (hereafter referred to as “the Bank”) — towards the cost of the Georgia Transport Connectivity Project. This International Invitation for Tenders relates to the contract for Construction of Ubisa-Shorapani Road Section of E-60 Highway (F3) which will also be subject to approval by the Bank.
This contract will include the new construction of approximately 13km Ubisa-Shorapani (F3) 4 lane road section of E-60 highway. The section F3 starts from Boriti village and finishes near Kveda Sveda village. The total length is of 13+053,820 m — TA and of 13+070,83 m – AT (much shorter than the length of the existing E60: approximately 18 km). The new highway is a double carriageway, each one with 2 lanes, 3,75 m width, plus an emergency lane, 2,5+0,5 m width, while in tunnels there is non-emergency lane. The distance of the 2 axis in median width, ranges from 5 m to 22,5 m (depending on the presence of tunnels, bridges or other technical constraints). Main structures in this section are as follows: 9 double tunnels (from 300 m to 1,6 km length) and 27 bridges, 13 along carriageway Tbilisi – Argveta and 14 along carriageway Argveta – Tbilisi (from 33 m to 1 200 m length). In tunnels and in open tracks, the pavement is a layer of concrete, only in correspondence of the bridges the pavement is in bituminous layer.
This Contract is expected to be implemented between December 2018 — December 2021 subject to EIB’s approval of this sub-project.
(a) Requirement: Submission of audited financial statements or, if not required by the law of the Bidder’s country, other financial statements confirmed by the relevant government authority/body (in English with Apostille Stamp), for the last 3 (three) years to demonstrate the current soundness of the Bidder’s financial position. As a minimum, the Bidder’s net worth for the last year calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities should be positive.
Single Entity must meet requirement and in case of Joint Venture (JV), Each Partner must meet requirement.
(b) Requirement: Minimum average annual construction turnover of 200 000 000,00 USD  (two hundred million USD only) calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last 3 (three) years: 2015, 2016 and 2017 divided by 3 (three).
Single Entity must meet requirement and in case of JV, All Partners Combined must meet requirement, Each Partner must meet 20 % of the requirement and One Partner must meet 40 % of the requirement.
(c) Requirement: The Bidder must demonstrate that its financial resources, less its financial obligations for its current contract commitments, meet or exceed the total requirement for the Subject Contract of 35 000 000,00 equivalent.
Single Entity must meet requirement and in case of JV, All Partners Combined must meet requirement, Each Partner must demonstrate that its financial resources defined in FIN — 3, less its financial obligations for its own current contract commitments defined in FIN — 4, meet or exceed its required share of 7 000 000,00 USD  equivalent from the total requirement for the Subject Contract and One Partner must demonstrate that its financial resources defined in FIN — 3, less its financial obligations for its own current contract commitments defined in FIN — 4, meet or exceed its required share of 14 000 000,00 USD  equivalent from the total requirement for the Subject Contract.
(a) Requirement: Participation in less than or equal to 3 contracts with total value of 320 000 000,00 USD  that have been successfully (1) or substantially completed within the last 5 (five) years starting from 1.1.2013 and that are similar to the proposed works.
The similarity of the Bidder’s participation shall be based on the physical size, nature of works, complexity, methods, technology or other characteristics as described in Section 6, Employer’s Requirements.
Single Entity must meet requirement (in case of multiple contracts, one contract shall be of at least 220 000 000,00.) and in case of JV, All Partners Combined must meet requirement, Each Partner must meet one contract of at least 45 000 000,00 USD and One Partner must meet one contract of at least 220 000 000,00 USD.
(a) Requirement: For the above or other contracts executed during the period stipulated in above, a minimum construction experience in the following key activities:
Cut and cover), in any 3 consecutive years of the last 5 (five) years starting from 1.1.2013. At least one tunnel should be a road tunnel with at least 2 traffic lanes and a minimum length of 1 000m;(3)
All firms are invited to participate in the tender in accordance with the EIB Guide to Procurement http://www.eib.org/projects/publications/guide-to-procurement.htm