Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-09-15
Buyer: SOUTHERN REGION WATER BOARD
Country: MW
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services
Submission deadline: 2023-10-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract will be financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and subject to EIB's Guide to Procurement.
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION FOR WATER SUPPLY IMPROVEMENT TO LIWONDE AND BALAKA TOWNS AND HYDROPOWER PLANT IN ZOMBA CITY
The assignment involves construction supervision of an intake structure, a conventional water treatment plant, transmission and distribution network, service reservoirs and booster stations. On hydropower plant, the consultant is to supervise the EPC contractor installing a hydro-power plant to generate power from Mulunguzi Dam located upstream of the treatment plant at an elevation of about 430m a.s.l.
Selection of the consultant will be based on Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) considering technical competency of the firm on similar assignments, specific experience relevant to the assignment, financial capability. Details are as follows:
The applicant (individual company or consortium altogether) will be considered to be technically competent if it has successfully completed, during the last 5 years (1st January 2018 to the submission deadline of the expressions of interest indicated in item 8), at least two similar assignments, each of a minimum value of Euro 500,000 or equivalent.
Provision of design review and construction supervision of a water supply system similar in nature to the assignment i.e. supervision of an intake structure, a conventional water treatment plant, pumping stations, transmission and distribution network system including concrete service reservoir  (3 assignment). The consultant must demonstrate that he has specific experience in designing and construction supervision of treatment plants of capacity not less than 14,000 cubic metres per day and also the consultant should demonstrate to have designed  and  supervised construction of a 300mm diameter pipeline of length not less than 20.0 Km.
The Consultant must demonstrate that it has provided design review and construction supervision of Hydropower Plant of capacity up to 10 megawatts at least three assignments
The average annual turnover of the applicant (individual company or consortium overall) must be of at least Euro 500,000 for each of the last two years i.e. 2020 and 2021 or 2021 and 2022 depending on the closing dates of the applicable financial years. Signed audited financial statements from which the turnover amounts are extracted must be submitted.
The number of consultants to be shortlisted is 6. If only 3-5 applicants satisfy the selection criteria, the shortlist will consist of 3-5 consultants. On the other hand, if more than 6 applicants meet the selection criteria, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications will be re-examined to identify the six best applications for the tender procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during the re-examination are, in order of precedence:
b.	In case of competition between two or more applicants having the same number of compliant reference assignments as per additional criterion 1 above, the number of such compliant references which have been implemented in the SADC countries shall be considered.
The full scope of the assignment is contained in the detailed Terms of Reference which will be circulated to interested consultants.