Capljina Water Supply Project

Item Description:

Leak repair and monitoring of the existing system

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project which was initially published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices (www.ebrd.com) on 20 September 2012 and was recently updated on 13 April 2016.

Municipality of Čapljina, hereinafter referred to as “the Employer”, intends to use part of the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) and EU IPA Grant administered by the Bank towards the cost of Capljina Water Supply System Project.

The Employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract “Leak repair and monitoring of the existing system and improving the quality and reliability of the water supply”.

The subject of the Contract is execution of works on the construction of a total of 19 (nineteen) measuring and control manholes and their equipping with measuring and control equipment in order to reduce losses in the existing water supply system and collect and process data on water consumption and amount of regulated pressures in the existing network.

The contract duration is 4 months, including 12 months for Defects Notification Period.

Tendering for contracts that are to be financed with the proceeds of the loan from the Bank is open to firms, joint ventures, consortia or associations from any country or countries.

To be qualified for the award of a contract, Tenderers shall satisfy the following minimum criteria:

Financial Situation:
Average annual turnover: The Tenderer shall have an average annual turnover as prime contractor (defined as billing for works in progress and completed) over the last three (3) years of not less than EUR 1,000,000.00 equivalent
Financial resources: The Tenderer shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means sufficient to meet the construction cash flow for the contract for a period of 4 (four) months, estimated as not less than EUR 250,000.00 equivalent, taking into account the applicant’s commitments for other contracts, .
The Tenderer shall submit audited balance sheets for the last five (5) years which shall demonstrate the soundness of the Tenderer’s financial position, showing long-term profitability.

Experience:
The Tenderer shall have experience under contracts in the role of contractor or management contractor for the last five (5) years prior to the tender submission deadline and with activity in at least nine (9) months in each year.
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 (nature and complexity: construction of the facilities of the water supply system: pumping station, water tanks, etc.) within the last five (5) years, each with a value of at least EUR 500,000.00 equivalent
The Tenderer shall have following specific experience:
construction of pumping stations and reservoirs of the water supply system and connecting facilities (pumping station, water tanks) to the dispatch centre with a SCADA system;
Qualification criteria for joint venture, consortium and association (JVCA): JVCA must satisfy the following minimum qualification requirements:
The lead partner shall meet not less than fifty (50) percent of the financial situation qualifying criteria specified above and the other partner(s) shall meet not less than thirty (30) percent of the financial situation qualifying criteria specified above.
The JVCA must satisfy collectively the criterion Experience b) stated above, for which purpose the relevant figures for each of the partners shall be added to arrive at the JVCA’s total capacity.

However, individual partners of the JVCA must each satisfy the requirements for the historical financial performance and for the Experience a).
Each if the JVCA members shall meet the criterion Experience c).
Tender documents may be obtained from the office at the address below upon payment of a non-refundable fee of EUR 200.00 or equivalent in a convertible currency. Currency exchange rates shall be in accordance with rates set by the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the date of payment.

Bank Name: HYPO Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. Mostar
Bank Address: Kneza Branimira 2b, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
BAM account: 3060070001035102; Municipality Code: 021; type of income: 722131
EUR account IBAN: BA393060203740529674
HRK account IBAN: BA393060072272006668
BIC-code: HAABBA22

Cheque and bank transfer charges to be paid by the applicant. Upon receipt of appropriate evidence of payment of the non-refundable fee, the documents will promptly be dispatched by courier; however, no liability can be accepted for their loss or late delivery. In addition, if requested, the documents can be dispatched electronically after presentation by the prospective tenderer of an appropriate evidence of payment of the non-refundable fee. In the event of discrepancy between electronic and hard copies of the documents, the hard copy shall prevail.

Site visit will be done on January 25 2017. Tenderers shall be expected to take all necessary measurements on site and to satisfy themselves that all necessary items have been included in their prices. All tenders must be accompanied by a tender security of EUR 10,000.00 or equivalent in a convertible currency.

Tenders shall be delivered to the office at the address below on or before 11:00 (Local time) on 28 February 2017, at which time they will be opened in the presence of those Tenderers’ representatives who choose to attend.

A register of potential Tenderers who have purchased the tender documents may be inspected at the address below.

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

Mr. Miše Maslać
Municipality of Čapljina
Trg Kralja Tomislava,
Čapljina, 88300, Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel: +387 36 805 052
Fax: +387 36 805 983
E-mail: mise.maslac@capljina.ba

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