Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-13
Buyer: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry
Country: BA
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71248000 | 71356200
Submission deadline: 2018-04-13

Technical requirements: Funding Sources: EIB, EU, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), BiH Federal Environmental Fund and municipal budget
The Federal Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MFT) (hereinafter referred to as "the Borrower") and the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry (FMAWMF) (both as "the Entity") has signed a Finance Agreement to receive a loan from the European Investment Bank – EIB (hereinafter referred to as "the Bank") – towards the cost of the Project “Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Water and Sanitation”. This International Invitation for Prequalification relates to one of the components of the project, namely the contract for “Central Supervision over Works of the Project Water and Sanitation in the federation BiH”. This contract shall be signed and implemented by FMAWMF (hereinafter referred to as "the Promoter").
The overall objective of the “Water and Sanitation FBiH Project” is to develop an EU-standard Integrated Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management scheme in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH). The Project concerns priority investment schemes for water and sanitation within the territory of the FBiH.
For the execution of the Project, a Finance Contract was signed in 2 steps by Bosnia and Herzegovina (MFT as the Borrower and FMF and FMAWMF as the Entity) in Sarajevo on 15.7.2008 and the EIB representatives in Luxembourg on 18.8.2008.
Pursuant to the Contract, the Federation of BiH undertakes to implement the project consisting of investment schemes to be carried out by the municipalities included into the project within the FBiH through the FMAWMF and FMF using the loan funds in the amount of 60 000 000 EUR and the equal amount of own contribution of the municipalities involved, which according to the Contract total 121 300 000 EUR.
Considering that the provision of own funds in the amount of 50 % for investment schemes is a difficult requirement to meet by the municipalities, even under normal recession-free circumstances, the Delegation of the European Commission in BiH acknowledged the joint approach taken by the NIPAC of BiH, FMAWMF, FMF and EIB that this Project should be supported by grants from pre-accession and other funding instruments (IPA, IPF, etc.).
The grant resources available to the Project either from the EU from different funding instruments or from other bilateral funding agencies like SIDA shall be under the management of EIB. The agreement for the transfer and implementation of these funds (IPF-MW 2008, IPA 2009 and SIDA) has been signed between EIB and EU.
Considering that the purpose of the Project is to use the resources (EIB loan, grants and own funds of the municipalities) to ensure the implementation of measures contributing to the improvement of infrastructure and provision of services aimed at adequate (both in terms of quality and quantity) water supply and wastewater treatment in the municipalities included in the project. The priority investment schemes shall be implemented in the following municipalities:
The Borrower intends prequalifying firms and joint ventures to tender for the Contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan. The scope of the Contract shall be the 20 municipalities listed above.
Central Supervision of works: The Consultant shall provide full supervisory services during construction and Defect Notification Period and shall act, for each respective Municipality, as the Engineer to each contract carried out under FIDIC contract conditions, and as the Supervisor for each contract carried out under Local Contract Conditions (FBiH CCC), as specified in or necessarily implied from the Contract as well as administer the Contract, dealing with situations in accordance with the Contract and taking due regard of all relevant circumstances. The services will also include an approval of the Contractor’s design for the design and build contracts (in particular for the treatment works), issuing variations and reporting and assessing the claims from the Contractor.
It is anticipated that the assignment will start in August 2018 with the duration of 46 months (including DNP).
There are no eligibility restrictions. The EIB shall not provide finance, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of, award a contract under any EIB Project to, or enter into any relationship with, an individual or entity who is subject to financial sanctions imposed by the European Union pursuant to Chapter 2 of Title V of the Treaty on European Union or article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 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.
All physical and legal entities or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply. A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Promoter.
The participation of an ineligible physical and legal entity shall result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
No more than 1 application can be submitted by a physical and legal entities whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than 1 application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.