Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-12
Buyer: Roads Department of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia
Country: GE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45233120: Road construction works
Submission deadline: 2019-05-08

Technical requirements: The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority for the purpose of this contract is an international competitive bidding with pre-qualification, also referred to as the restricted tender procedure as defined by the Guide to Procurement for projects financed by the EIB. The procedure will be conducted as per the national procurement legislation [Procurement law of Georgia], aligned with the EIB Guide to Procurement version 2018 (GtP). This procedure comprises 2 separate stages:
Stage 1 of this process is the pre-qualification process, which is designed to identify eligible and suitable candidates for this contract.
Stage 2 will be a formal tender process involving only the shortlisted candidates identified and selected as eligible and suitable as a result of the pre-qualification.
In detail, during the first stage, any candidate may submit a request to participate in the tendering process. Once the applications are received, the ones submitted on time will be evaluated according to the exclusion, selection and shortlisting criteria established in the present notice. The shortlisting of applicants will be conducted on a non-discriminatory basis, following the application of objective criteria, as explained in the sections below. Subsequently, the Contracting Authority will then send Requests for Proposals (RFP) to the shortlisted applicants. All proposals subsequently received (that are compliant i.e. submitted in accordance with the tendering instructions) will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation (award) criteria as set out in the present notice and in the RFP document. The award criteria is economically advantageous bid (80 % quality + 20 % price), as per the GtP.
Georgia East West Highway A/B (GEWH A/B) is being implemented between 2013 and 2021. The East-West Highway (road number S-1 according to Georgian classification corresponding to roads E60 and E97 in the European network) is the main artery for long distance road traffic in Georgia, being used by most traffic from Azerbaijan and Armenia to the Black Sea ports and Turkey, as well as long distance traffic to and from Tbilisi. The project aims at upgrading and improving the most Western part of the East-West highway.
The EIB is providing funding to the Government of Georgia for the new construction of the road sections from:
The project is comprised of: the civil works of construction of 52 Km 4 lane highway for Samterdia-Grigoleti road section, which is divided into the following 4 lots:
Samtredia-Grigoleti road section Lot I starts from New Kutaisi Bypass-Samtredia road section being under construction, from the Ochopa bridge at PK 0+00. Project alignment within km 1+500-km 1+800 crosses Samtredia-Lanchkhuti-Grigoleti road, the river Logoba and Samtredia-Batumi railway and railway to “Wissol” production base with grade-separated intersection. Road alignment goes along the right side of the river Rioni up to km 9+000; it crosses the river Tskhenistskali at km 5+400. The road crosses the river Rioni and Khevistskali from km 9+000 to km 9+800 and passes to the left side of the river Rioni. Project section ends at km 11+500, before the meander (Didi Narionali Lake).
Samtredia-Grigoleti road section Lot III starts at PK 300+00 (km 30+00), end of Lot 2, in Lanchkhuti, accompanying on left side the Samtredia – Batumi railway and ending at PK 420+00 (km 42+00) — beginning of Lot 4. Designed cross-sections of the road and bridges meet the requirements of a 4-lanes highway road with 2 stop lanes. Within the section are in total 44 concrete structures.
The Contracting Authority wishes to engage a consultant (the “Consultant”) to perform the role of construction supervisor and engineer in accordance with FIDIC conditions of contract (the “Assignment”). The details of the construction works are given in project description. It is envisaged that all construction contracts will be based on FIDIC Red Book/MDB Harmonized conditions of contract.
— ensure that the works are implemented on time, according to specifications and within the budget from the works contracts, the Georgian legislative system and regulations and as agreed with the financing authorities; and
The consultancy service assignment for the supervision of Samterdia-Grigoleti roads sections is ongoing. The current supervision company is expected to be replaced by the selected company, as a result of the call. The selected company shall provide the supervision service for the following road sections: Samterdia-Grigoleti Lot 1 and Samterdia-Grigoleti Lot 3.
Participation is open to firms originating from all countries of the world in accordance with the EIB Guide to Procurement https://www.eib.org/en/infocentre/publications/all/guide-toprocurement.htm
All eligible legal persons (as per item 12 above) 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. Maximum number of allowable consortium members is 3. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
No more than one application can be submitted by a legal person 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 legal person submits more than one application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.