Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2020-12-08
Buyer: Roads Authority of Malawi
Country: MW
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services
Estimated value: 8000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-01-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract will be financed by European Investment Bank (EIB) and is subject to the EIB's Guide to Procurement.
Consulting Services for the Supervision of Construction of the Rehabilitation and Widening of the M1 Road in Four Sections
Provision of supervision services comprising a Chief Resident Engineer/ Project Manager, and four teams, one for each of the four sections. Each team comprising a Resident Engineer, an Assistant Resident Engineer, a Materials Engineer, a Measurement Engineer, a Surveyor, a Traffic Manager/Road Safety Engineer, a Safety, Health and Environmental Officer, a number of inspectors; and a number of materials technicians. Bridge Engineers are required for two of the teams.
The Construction Works are divided into four LOTS, and the resident supervision team for each LOT will be based on that LOT. The Project Manager/ Chief RE will be based in Lilongwe.
The consultancy services will be procured through the responses to the Request for Expressions of Interest from which a short-list of qualified consultants will be invited to submit detailed technical and financial proposals. All qualified consultants will be included in the short list and invited to make a full technical and financial proposal.
The proposals received will be evaluated firstly technically and thereafter the financial proposals of those consultants whose technical proposals achieved the required minimum score will be checked and corrected where necessary. Final recommendation will be based on an assessment of both technical and financial scores with a weighting application of 20 % to the financial score and 80 % to the technical score. The Consultant submitting the most economically beneficial proposal will be invited to negotiation with a view to awarding the contract for the services. The procurement process will be in compliance with the EIB Guide to Procurement which is available on the EIB’s website http://www.eib.org/en/infocentre/publications/all/guide-to-procurement.htm.
The respective durations of the four works LOTS are 30, 18, 15 and 24 exclusive of the 12 month DNP which will apply to each works contract.
The EOI documents can be found on the website www.ra.org.mw and should be submitted electronically to the email address mmalinda.ra.org. Where attachments exceed 10MB these should be sent using WeTransfer or Google Drive. NOT Dropbox.
Consultants applying for inclusion in the short-list of companies to be invited to propose for these services must show previous experience over the last 10 years in a minimum of 3 similar road contracts each in excess of 100 km in length and each with a fee value in excess of EURO 2M in the last 10 years and with at least two of these being located in the Sub Saharan Africa region.
Consultants may form associations or consortiums with other consultants to better enhance their experience.

Eligibility requirements: Consultants applying for inclusion in the short-list of companies to be invited to propose for these services must show previous experience over the last 10 years in a minimum of 3 similar road contracts each in excess of 100 km in length and each with a fee value in excess of EURO 2M in the last 10 years and with at least two of these being located in the Sub Saharan Africa region. Other Conditions are set out in the Procurement Documents Consultants may form associations or consortiums with other consultants to better enhance their experience.

Award value: 8000000