Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-12-01
Buyer: Ministry of Infrastructure, Government of Kosovo
Country: 1A
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71310000 | 71520000: Construction supervision services | 79412000
Submission deadline: 2018-01-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: *This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence
1. This notice follows the Preliminary Information Notice published on 14 November 2017 in the OJEU 2017/S 218-452616.
2. The Ministry of Infrastructure, Government of Kosovo* (“the Employer”) has applied for loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), towards the cost of the Project “Road N9 Pristinë - Pejë, Section from Kijevë/Klina to Zahaq” (the “Project”).
3. The project concerns the greenfield construction of a 31 km length of motorway in rolling terrain in the west of Kosovo*. The road construction works will be to TEM design standards and will include the provision of a 4-lane dual-carriageway with lane width 3.75 m, hard shoulders of 1.5 m and a central reservation of 4.0 m. Other ancillary works include six grade-separated interchanges and associated bridges, viaducts, overpasses and underpasses. Drainage systems and horizontal and vertical signalisation will also be provided. The estimated project investment cost, including land and contingencies but excluding VAT, is EUR 164 million.
4. The Employer intends to engage a consultant (the “Consultant”) to provide construction supervision services (the “Services”) for the Project, payments for which the proceeds of the EIB loan may be applied. The Consultant’s specific tasks will include the following:
(i) to assume the duties and responsibilities of the “Engineer” for the works contract to be implemented under the provisions of the “Conditions of Contract for Construction for Building and Engineering Works designed by the Employer” (Multilateral Development Bank Harmonised Edition - June 2010). The Consultant will be responsible for all the tasks defined and otherwise implied in the General and Particular Conditions of Contract; and
5. The Services are expected to start in Q3 2018 and last 48 months. The estimated cost for the Services is EUR 5-6 million (exclusive of VAT).
6. A Consultant will be selected to perform the Services in accordance with the procedures set out in the EIB Guide to Procurement.
7. The Employer now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the Services. All firms are invited to submit expression of interest. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the Services. Consultants shall contact the Employer at the address below to obtain a copy of the format of the Expression of Interest to be submitted.
8. Consultants may associate into a consortium to enhance their qualifications which must take the form of a joint venture (with joint and several liability).
9. In order to be qualified to fulfil the Services, eligible consultants must meet all the following requirements.
(i) The annual turnover (if the candidate is an individual company) or the average annual turnover (if the candidate is a consortium) of the candidate must exceed EUR 6 million for each of the last three years (2014, 2015 & 2016) for which accounts have been closed.
(ii) The average of cash and cash equivalents at the end and beginning of each year for the years 2014, 2015 & 2016 must be positive.
(iii) The number of permanent staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium overall) currently working in fields related to this contract, must be at least 10 for each of the last three years (2014, 2015 & 2016).
(iv) The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has implemented and completed, during the last five years (from December 2012 up to the deadline for the receipt of applications indicated below), at least three contracts in a field related to these Services, of a minimum value of EUR 3.0 million each, and shall demonstrate that it had a participation of minimum 60% in each of the contracts brought as reference; and