Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-04
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work
Submission deadline: 2021-01-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract work consists of engineering design services for and construction of a new E18 with 2x3 lanes on the stretch Strand — Ramstadsletta, with the accompanying change to the local road system in the Høvik area. The main work consists of tunnel and open air installations, watertight construction pit, electro installations, and technical traffic equipment, alterations to technical infrastructure, road alterations, and completion and commissioning. The contract must be carried out with model based engineering design services.
The work in the open air at Ramstadsletta will be carried out in three main phases decided by the builder's general traffic flow plan for the E18 Lysaker — Ramstadsletta in the construction period. The traffic on the E18 is approx. 90 000 vehicles a dya (ADT), with approx. 10 % heavy traffic. Traffic flow during the day and week is characterised by rush hour traffic and weekend getaways. The E18 stretch in this contract is approx. 2 km long, of which approx. 1.3 km is a dual-bore tunnel T13 and approx. 0.7 km is in the open air with 2x3 lanes. The length of the rock tunnels are 1 210 m and 1 160 m respectively for the westbound and eastbound tunnels. There will be an estimated approx. 235 000 pfm
The selection amongst the qualified tenderers will be based on an assessment of the documentation of fulfilment of the qualification requirements in point 2.4.
The builder has an option to cancel work described in construction part SAG-93 solar panels on truss beams K560, which are included in the contract, c.f. chapter C2, point 38. The builder will decide whether to take up the option within 6 months of the contract being signed.
Tender conference 10 December 2020 at 12.00, teams video conference. Register with the name of the company and persons who will participate, as well as a telephone number in the tender management tool. Deadline Monday 9 December 2020, 12.00. The tender conference can be held digitally due to the Covid-19 situation. (If an on-site meeting is allowed, an invitation will be sent via the tender management tool. At the moment it is not allowed.)
Tenderers must be a legally established company or consist of a group of suppliers who are legally established companies. The requirement also applies to any sub-suppliers that the tenderer will use.
1) Certificate from the register of business enterprises, or equivalent certificate of legal registration in the country where the tenderer, or the companies that together make up the tenderer, cf. point 4.2, is/are established, as well as for all supporting companies, cf. point 4.1.
Tenderers must have sufficient experience with the execution of road projects close to urban areas with an equivalent nature and degree of difficulty as this contract. Tenderers must have sufficient experience with engineering design services for road projects close to urban areas with an equivalent nature and degree of difficulty as this contract. Tenderers must have completed reference projects in a way that shows satisfactory implementation ability, contract management, and cooperation ability with contracting authorities.
Description of minimum 3 (but not more than 5) reference projects that include engineering design services for multi-disciplinary road installations.
At least one of these reference project shall demonstrate experience with and the use of model based engineering design. Tenderers must have a system showing that they work pro-actively to ensure safety, health and working environment (SHA), with relevance for equivalent works to those included in this contest. The system will be subject to periodic review. Tenderers and their central contract facilitators ought to have an average H2 value lower than 12 for the last 3 years. Tenderers must be certified or is in the process of being certified in accordance with ISO 14001 (2015), EMAS (EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme for environmental management), or the Eco-Lighthouse certification scheme, with relevance to equivalent public transport projects. Tenderers must be certified or is in the process of certification in accordance with ISO 9001 (2015), with relevance to comparable transport projects.
C1 General Contract Provisions (NS 8407:2011). C2: Special contractual regulations for construction works, the National Public Roads Administration. C3 Contract document. The contract form is turnkey contract.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company or consist of a group of suppliers who are legally established companies. The requirement also applies to any sub-suppliers that the tenderer will use. Documentation requirement: 1) Certificate from the register of business enterprises, or equivalent certificate of legal registration in the country where the tenderer, or the companies that together make up the tenderer, cf. point 4.2, is/are established, as well as for all supporting companies, cf. point 4.1. 2) Completed table in chapter E1 point 2.1 and possibly point 2.3.