Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-13
Buyer: Roads Department of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia
Country: GE
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45233120: Road construction works | 71520000: Construction supervision services
Submission deadline: 2018-07-13

Technical requirements: The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority for the purpose of this contract is an international competitive bidding with pre-qualification, also referred to as the restricted tender procedure as defined by the EIB’s Guide to Procurement. The procedure will be conducted as per the EIB’s Guide to Procurement (available on EIB’s website: www.eib.org) aligned with the national law. This procedure comprises two separate stages:
Stage 1 of this process is the pre-qualification process, which is designed to identify eligible and suitable candidates for this contract.
Stage 2 will be a formal tender process involving only the shortlisted candidates identified and selected as eligible and suitable as a result of the prequalification.
In detail, during the first stage, any candidate may submit a request to participate in the tendering process. Once the applications are received, the ones submitted on time will be evaluated according to the exclusion, selection and shortlisting criteria established in the present notice. The shortlisting of applicants will be conducted on a non-discriminatory basis, following the application of objective criteria, as explained in the sections below. Subsequently, the Contracting Authority will then send requests for proposals (RFP) to the shortlisted applicants. All Proposals subsequently received (that are compliant i.e. submitted in accordance with the tendering instructions) will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation (award) criteria as set out in the present notice and in the RFP document.
Georgia Transport Connectivity is expected to be implemented between 2017 and 2022. It encompasses new construction and rehabilitation of approximately 253km of priority primary and secondary roads on the Georgian road network to be financed under a Framework Loan to ensure Georgia’s global connectivity and local mobility.
The EIB is investigating an opportunity to provide funding to the Government of Georgia for the new construction of approximately 13 km Ubisa-Shorapani (F3) road section of E-60 Highway under the GTC Framework Loan.
The EIB is investigating an opportunity to provide funding to the Government of Georgia for the new construction of approximately 13km Ubisa-Shorapani (F3) four 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 two lanes, 3,75 m width, plus an emergency lane, 2,5+0,5 m width, while in tunnels there is nonemergency 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.
The selected consultant is expected to provide the consultancy service for the supervision of the construction works envisaged under the civil works contract — The General Conditions that follow the Bank Harmonized Edition of the Conditions of Contract for Construction prepared and copyrighted by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils, or FIDIC), FIDIC 2010-All rights reserved. Also, the consultant will be responsible for the design review prior to the commencement of the works.
Participation is open to firms originating from all countries of the world in accordance with the EIB Guide to Procurement http://www.eib.org/projects/publications/guide-to-procurement.htm
All eligible legal persons (as per item 12 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. Maximum number of allowable consortium members is 3. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
No more than one application can be submitted by a 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 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 shortlisted application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. 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 (see point 24 below), to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed therein.
On the basis of the applications received, after undertaking the detailed evaluation as per point 19 below, between 2 and 10 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract.