Rehabilitation water distribution network and replacement of individual household connections of Silikyan district

Item Description:

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project which was published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices 7779-GPN-43253 (http://www.ebrd.com) on 30 December 2014 and 8123-IFT-43253 (http://www.ebrd.com) on 04 January 2016.

“Water Sector Projects Implementation Unit”, State Agency of State Committee of Water Economy, hereinafter referred to as “the Employer”, intends using part of the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD or the Bank), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and a grant from the European Union Neighbourhood Investment Facility (EU NIF) towards the cost of Yerevan Water Supply Improvement Project.

The Employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loans and grants:

Rehabilitation of the Water Supply Network in Silikyan district, including:

• Demolition and Reinstatement of asphalt and/or concrete roads
• Construction of approximately 15.5 km  length  OD50–OD200 water lines in distribution network
• Construction of approximately  11.8 km length, OD25-OD32 water lines for house connections
• Installation of approximately 30 prefabricated or monolithic chambers
• Installation of approximately 1300 water meters’ chambers

Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of the EBRD and EIB loans and the EU grant is open to firms from any country.

The works shall be executed within 510 days (excluding winter break).

To be qualified for the award of a contract, tenderers must satisfy the following minimum criteria:

• Historical non-performance: Non-performance of a contract did not occur within the last three (3) years prior to the deadline for tenders submission, based on all information on fully settled disputes or litigation. All pending litigation shall in total not represent more than ten percent (10 %) of the Tenderer’s net worth and shall be treated as resolved against the Tenderer. If a Tenderer is a JV, Consortium or Association, each partner must meet the requirement.
• Historical financial performance: The audited balance sheets for the last three (3) years shall be submitted and must demonstrate the soundness of the Tenderer’s financial position, showing long-term profitability. If a Tenderer is a JV, Consortium or Association, each partner must meet the requirement.
• Average Annual Turnover: Average annual construction turnover of USD 5,000,000.00 (five million), calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last five (5) years. If a Tenderer is a JV, Consortium or Association, all partners combined must meet the requirement, each partner must meet 20% of the requirement, and one partner must meet 50% of the requirement.
• Financial Resources: The Tenderer must demonstrate access to, or availability of, financial resources such as liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means net of other contractual commitments, other than any contractual advance payments to meet the following cash-flow requirement: USD 860,000.00 (eight hundred sixty thousand). If a Tenderer is a JV, Consortium or Association, all partners combined must meet the requirement, each partner must meet 20% of the requirement, and one partner must meet 50% of the requirement.
• Experience: The Tenderer shall demonstrate that it has successful experience as prime contractor in the execution of at least three (3) projects of a nature and complexity comparable to the proposed contract within the last five (5) years. In addition or for the above, the following specific experience:

1. For the above or other contracts, participation as contractor or management contractor in at least three (3) contract within the last five (5) years , each with a value of at least USD 2,000,000.00 (two million), that have been successfully and substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed Works. The similarity shall be based on the physical size, complexity, methods/technology or other characteristics as described in Section VI, Employer’s Requirements;
2. For the above or other contracts executed during the last five (5) years a minimum experience in the following key activities:  Construction of HDPE and/or steel pipes pressure pipesfor water and waste water OD 25 to OD 315 or larger. Total constructed length (all diameters) shall be at least 10,000m;

If a Tenderer is a JV, Consortium or Association, all partners combined must meet the requirement.

• Personnel:

• Equipment: 

• The local Tenderers should submit a reference (issued not earlier than 15 days prior to the bid submission deadline) on not having any arrears to the RA Tax authorities.
• The Tenderers shall hold a valid and effective license/permit for hydro-technical facilities, issued by the RA Urban Development Ministry. In case of the absence of this license/permit the Tenderers shall submit with the bid a signed statement that if the bidder is awarded the Contract he will obtain the required license from the RA Urban Development Ministry.

More details on the qualifying requirements are specified in Part 1 – Section III Evaluation and Qualification Criteria.

A complete set of tender documents (only in electronic format) in English may be obtained by interested eligible bidders free of charge upon the submission of a written application* to the address below (the bidding documents will be delivered to the interested bidders via “Files transfer services”.

All tenders must be accompanied by a tender security of USD 90,000.00 (ninety thousand) or its or its equivalent in another convertible currency or Armenian Dram. The AMD equivalent of the tender security amount shall be calculated at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Armenia on the date of 28 days prior to the deadline for submission of tenders, November 26, 2018.

Tenders must be delivered to the office at the address below on or before December 18, 2018 at 15:00 (local time in Armenia), at which time they will be opened in the presence of those tenderers’ representatives who choose to attend.

The applicable procurement rules are the Bank’s Procurement Policies and Rules (PP&R, Rev. October 2014) which can be located at: http://www.ebrd.com/news/publications/policies/procurement-policies-and-rules.html

Prospective tenderers may obtain further information from, and inspect and acquire the tender documents at, the following office:

“Water Sector Projects Implementation Unit”

State Agency of State Committee of Water Economy

Mr. Tigran Kalantaryan, Acting Director,

Mr. Gurgen Matsoyan, Procurement Specialist

Address:          8 Vardanants Blind Alley (5-th floor), Yerevan 0010, Armenia

E-mail address: tkalantaryan@wsdp.am; gmatsoyan@wsdp.am