Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-03-17
Buyer: Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure
Country: RS
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71520000: Construction supervision services
Estimated value: 2500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2022-04-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The Contracting Authority/Employer is the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure. The contract’s scope includes the administrative, financial, safety and environmental monitoring and supervision of the Works Contract for the Removal of sunken German Fleet from the Danube River, to be implemented under the FIDIC Turn-Key contract conditions (Silver Book, FIDIC, Second Edition 2017) and Serbian Law regarding this Works. The scope of the Works Contract refers to removal of 21 sunken vessels from the WW2 from the Danube River near Prahovo (km 862-857), lying in the area containing a number of identified UXO. The project’s purpose is to ensure fairway parameters for safe inland navigation, according to the international waterway Class VII requirements.
Financing - Finance Contract for Serbian IWW infrastructure between the Republic of Serbia and EIB (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 2/19), with approved co-financing from the WBIF in accordance with the Grant Agreement.
Guide to Procurement (GtP) for projects financed by the EIB from September 2018 (https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf ) is applied to this tender, while tender document templates are from the PRAG (Practical Guide for Procurement and Grants for European Union external actions – August 2020).
Participation is open to all-natural persons and firms (participating either individually or in a grouping - consortium - of tenderers) originating from all countries of the world.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All partners of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other partners) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority (CA).
The participation of an ineligible natural/legal person will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. If that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
Only one application or tender can be submitted by a person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an application/tender). If a natural or legal person submits more than one application or tender, all applications or tenders in which that person has participated will be excluded.
Further information related to the submission of application is given in Section VI (Additional Information).
As part of the application form, candidates must submit a signed declaration, included in the standard application form, to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed in Section 2.6.10.1. of the PRAG (August 2020), as well as in the GtP (September 2018) for projects financed by the EIB (https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf), Section 1.4 (Ethical Conduct), Section 1.5 (Conflict of Interest), Section 1.7 (mandatory compliance with EIB's E&S safeguards) and Section 3.6 (Prohibited Conduct – Covenant of Integrity (CoI)– template available in EIB GtP, Annex 3), Anti-fraud policy of the EIB (http://www.eib.org/infocentre/publications/all/anti-fraud-policy.html) and Section 3.8 E&S Covenant (template is available in EIB GtP, Annex 7). It should be noted that, in the CoI, the tenderer is requested to self-declare all sanctions and/or exclusions (including any similar decisions having the effect of imposing conditions on the tenderer or its subsidiaries or to exclude the said tenderer or its subsidiaries, such as temporary suspension, conditional non-exclusion, etc.) imposed by the European institutions or any multilateral development banks (including the WB Group, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, EBRD, EIB or Inter-American Development Bank), regardless of the date of issue and the expiration or not of such decisions and of the current status of any sanction and/or exclusion. In this regard, any omission or misrepresentation, made knowingly or recklessly, may be considered as fraud under the EIB Anti-Fraud Policy. Therefore, the Client reserves the right to reject any offer presenting an inaccurate or incomplete CoI, and may cause the rejection of the offer for prohibited conduct.
Pursuant to its Sanctions Policy, the Bank shall not provide finance, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of an individual or entity that is subject to financial sanctions imposed by the EU, either autonomously or pursuant to the financial sanctions decided by the United Nations Security Council on the basis of article 41 of the UN Charter.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, their relative strengths and weaknesses must be re-examined in order to rank their applications and identify the 8 best candidates. The additional comparative criteria that will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are, in order of precedence 1 above 2, as below:
Previous experience which caused a breach of contract and termination by a Contracting Authority shall not be used as a reference.
The following selection criteria will be applied to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole if not specified otherwise. The selection criteria will not be applied to natural persons and single-member companies when they are sub-contractors. No local preference provisions or local content provisions (such as national licenses, mandatory local sub-contracting, mandatory association with local companies, mandatory local workforce, etc.) are required in this Contract.
The reference period which will be taken into account will be the last three years for which accounts have been closed:
•	the average annual turnover of the candidate over the last 3 years (2019, 2020 and 2021) must be at least 2 500 000 EUR;

Eligibility requirements: The following selection criteria will be applied to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole if not specified otherwise. The selection criteria will not be applied to natural persons and single-member companies when they are sub-contractors. No local preference provisions or local content provisions (such as national licenses, mandatory local sub-contracting, mandatory association with local companies, mandatory local workforce, etc.) are required in this Contract.

Award value: 2500000