Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-28
Buyer: Chinese-Hungarian Railway Nonprofit Ltd / Kínai-Magyar Vasúti Nonprofit Zrt.
Country: HU
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 34632200 | 34632300 | 34941000 | 34946000 | 45213321
Submission deadline: 2018-01-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Procurement for the upgrading of the Soroksár (incl.) — Kelebia (country border) railway line (EPC contract).
Based on subclause 2., paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the Treaty between the Government of Hungary and the Government of the Peoples' Republic of China about the Development, Construction and Financing of the Hungarian Section of the Budapest-Belgrade Railway Line, MÁV Zrt. will exercise the rights and obligations undertaken as the Employer under the EPC contract.
The main subject matter of this contract is the upgrading of the Soroksár (incl.) — Kelebia (country border) MÁV railway line No. 150 to line speed v=160(200)km/h between sections 78 + 07 and 1593 + 88, where the total length of the contract is approximately 152 km.
1. Main parameters according to specifications related to existing EU TEN-T network (class P4) to be upgraded, with mixed traffic
8. Electronic signalling system, establishment with central traffic control system (KÖFI) and ETCS L2, GSM-R systems
2. Preparation of environmental impact assessment and obtaining the environmental permit; Preparation of the NATURA 2000 impact assessment
3. Preparation of expropriation drawings together with the administration of changes at the land registry
5. Preparation of all detailed designs necessary for the construction works, obtaining the operators' approvals
8. Construction (from the handover of the construction site to a successful technical handover-takeover procedure)
The Conditions of Contract will comprise the General Conditions forming part of the first edition of the Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design Build for Electrical and Mechanical Works and for Building and Engineering Works Designed by the Contractor published by the Fédération Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) in 1999 and the Particular Conditions providing for the amendments and supplements of the General Conditions to be drafted by the Contracting Authority.
The proposed quantities, which are based on a feasibility study, will have to be finalized by contractor in the planning phase:
Candidates with valid applications to participate will be ranked by the Contracting Authority on the basis of their professional experience (references) as economic operators, their expert staff, their available equipment and financial compliance, and the Candidates with the top three scores will be invited to submit a bid. Please see the documentation for the detailed ranking criteria. If due to their identical ranking score, more than 3 Candidates qualify for the invitation to submit a bid, the Contracting Authority shall decide which Candidates will be invited to submit a bid according to the following criteria:
1. the Candidate who has received the highest score based on the experience (references); if still more than three Candidates remain, then
2. the Candidate who has received the highest score based on professional staff criteria; if still more than three Candidates remain, then
3. the Candidate who has received the highest score based on equipment criteria; if still more than three Candidates remain,

Eligibility requirements: Exclusion grounds: An economic operator shall be excluded from participating in the procedure as a Candidate, subcontractor or Organisation participating in certifying eligibility if: 1. he or she has been convicted in final judgment for one of the following reasons: a) participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA b) corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union and Article 2(1) of Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA as well as corruption as defined in Hungarian law or the national law of the economic operator; c) fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests; d) terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activities, as defined in Articles 1 and 3 of Council Framework Decision 2002/475/ respectively, or inciting or aiding or abetting or attempting to commit an offence, as referred to in Article 4 of that Framework Decision; e) money laundering or terrorist financing, as defined in Article 1 of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council f) child labour and other forms of trafficking in human beings as defined in Article 2 of Directive 011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council; 2. any of its executive officers or company managers, or any member of its supervisory board, or, in the case of an economic operator, its sole shareholder or any of its shareholders, or any person that holds a similar decision-making powers under the laws of the jurisdiction where the economic operator is established has been convicted by a final court judgement for any of the crimes specified in subsection III.1.1 1 in the last 5 years, and has not been relieved from the detrimental consequences attached to such prior conviction; 3. a person who was convicted by a final court judgement for any of the crimes specified in subsection III.1.1. 1 in the last 5 years or, where such a period is shorter, within the period needed for the person convicted to be relieved from the detrimental consequences attached to the conviction for the given crime served as its executive officer or company manager, or as a member of its supervisory board, or, in the case of an economic operator, was its sole shareholder or any of its shareholders, or as a person who was a member of a similar management or supervisory body or held that holds a similar decision-making powers under the laws of the jurisdiction where the economic operator is established, when committing the crime in question; 4. he, she or it is in breach of obligations relating to the payment of taxes, customs duties or social security contributions for more than a year, where this has been established by a judicial or administrative decision having final and binding effect under Hungarian law or the national law of the economic operator. The above shall not apply if the economic operator has paid the debt, including, where applicable, any interest accrued or fines by the time of the submission of its application, or it was granted a permission for deferred payment of the debt; 5. he, she or it has engaged or attempted to engage in any forbidden conduct as defined in Section 6 of Annex 1 as defined in Hungary's Act XXIV of 2016 on the promulgation of the treaty between the Government of Hungary and the Government of the People's Republic of China about the development, construction and financing of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line; 6. it is an economic operator blacklisted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) or the World Bank; to be continued in III.1.2.