Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-16
Buyer: JP Ceste F BH
Country: BA
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71311300
Submission deadline: 2016-08-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bosnia and Herzegovina has applied for financing from the World Bank and received the Credit from European Investment Bank toward the cost of the Road Modernization in Federation BiH, and intends to apply a part of the proceeds for the consulting services.
The consulting services (“the Services”) include: “Engineer” (FIDIC, Red Book,1999) whose service comprise but are not limited to supervision of the quality, quantity and technology of the executed works; Environmental Monitoring, preparation and submission of the mandatory reporting and other activities as recommended in Guidelines for Road Design, Construction, Maintenance and Supervision /Sarajevo 2005/Volume IV Supervision (www.jpcfbih.ba). The objective of the consultancy services is to ensure that high quality construction is achieved and that all works are carried out in full compliance with the engineering design, technical specifications described in the civil works contracts and that all efforts are deployed by the contractors to manage the construction within the agreed total price.
- Construction of new pavement at Road subsection Stari Neum- Oštrovac L=2,4km and Construction of the Tunnel Oštrovac 0,19km
Employer will assign works on above subsections depending on the completion of the land acquisition. Consequently the works on the subsections will take place at the same time.
Expected construction period is September 2016 - September 2020, including the Defect Liability Period under civil works contracts.
The JP Ceste Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to submit their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide the information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.
In order to determinate the capability and experience of the consultants seeking to be short listed, the information submitted shall include the following:
- Company information: name, status, address, telephone number, facsimile number, e-mail address, year of establishment, contact person for the project, turnover for the previous 5 (five) years, audited balance sheets for the last 5 years to demonstrate the soundness of the applicant's financial position and long-term profitability, number of permanent staff and part-timers, fields of expertise,
- The average annual turnover of candidate for the previous 5 (five) years (2011-2015) must exceed: 1.000.000 EURO.
- Details of experience in similar assignments undertaken in the previous 5 (five) years, including the contract(s) value and location(s), number of staff involved in the contract(s), name of the Client(s), name of partners for contract(s) execution, source(s) of financing, type of services provided, contract(s) commencement and completion dates, brief description of the contract(s). The applicant has completed (provisional acceptance or defects liability certificate issued) in the past five years (2011-2015), at least two major similar projects in road works as supervisor/FIDIC Engineer with consultancy services value of 500.000 EURO or more per project
- Form of association (sub-contractor/consortium) for the execution of the contract, if the case may be, and the leading company. The same information as for the leading company shall be requested for the associated company/companies. In case of JV or consortium, the leading company shall meet not less than 65% percent of the qualifying criteria for general and specific experience and the other partners shall meet not less than 25% percent of the qualifying criteria for general and specific experience
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants [under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants] by World Bank Borrowers, January 2011, revised January 2014 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub consultancy to enhance their qualifications. All the members of the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire assignment. However, the experience of sub-consultant will not be considered while short-listing.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method as set out in the Consultant Guidelines.
The consultants are strongly advised to limit their Expression of Interest to 30 pages. Company brochures may be included as an Annex, and will not be affected by the limit of 30 pages.