Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-05
Buyer: European Investment Bank (EIB)
Country: LU
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45240000: Construction work for water projects | 45252127 | 45259100 | 90733400
Submission deadline: 2018-06-05

Technical requirements: The overall objective of the project of which this service contract will be a part is to enable Water Authority of Fiji (WAF) to provide its customers with high quality, cost effective and efficient water supply and wastewater services while protecting the environment and with a particular focus of this Project on the Greater Suva Area (GSA) service area.
The proposed TA will consist of distinctive tasks, aiming at enhancing the operational capability and efficiency of WAF in order to sustain the investments included in the Project. The services to be provided have been grouped into 4 sections:
i) procurement (following EIB Guide to Procurement) of a study to determine the pollution absorption and dilution capacity of Laucala Bay and Suva Harbor and
Section D — Increasing sewer connection rate: Subcontract consultants on behalf of the Ministry of environment following Government of Fiji procurement procedures for developing the documentation for upgrading of informal settlements which documents shall be approved by the relevant authorities.
The core team should be composed of a Team leader, an Integrated water resources management (IWRM) expert, an Operation and training expert and a Monitoring and evaluation expert. The team will be supported by short-term experts according to the needs.
The Contracting Authority may, at its own discretion and subject to the availability of funding, extend the scope and duration of the project to cover additional services.
In case of additional services, such extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding the length and value of the initial contract.
Participation is open to all interested legal and natural persons — Participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates, without nationality restrictions. Participation is also open to international organisations.
All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11 above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item 11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
No more than one application can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure unless prior approval from the Contracting Authority has been obtained. Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the contract in question.
As part of the application form, candidates must submit a signed declaration, included in the standard application form, to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations stipulated under Article 57 of European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/24/EU.
Tenderers shall be excluded from this invitation to tender procedure if any of the mandatory exclusion grounds for rejection apply.