Invitation For Tenders Two Stage

The above named client, intends to use part of the proceeds of a loan from/grant administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) and set out above and from Client's own funds towards the cost of the above named project. Contracts will be subject to the Bank's Procurement Policies and Rules.
Funding Details:
The Project will be co-financed by the EBRD, the EIB and EU NIF.


Contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from/ grant administered by the Bank and will be open to firms from any country.
The proceeds of the loan from/ grant administered by the Bank will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations or under a law or official regulation of the Client's country.



The client now invites tenders for the above mentioned contract(s).

The purpose of the Project is for the design and rehabilitation of the railway section Bender-Basarabeasca-Etulia-Giurgiulesti, part of the Moldovan South railways corridor, which is a 1520 mm gauge railway system of overall length of approximately 250 km.

The design and rehabilitation measures of the Project shall bring the track infrastructure and systems on the Bender-Basarabeasca-Etulia-Giurgiulesti railway section up to acceptable standards, improving track speeds, infrastructure and systems maintainability, passenger ride comfort, ensuring a long service life.

The Contractor shall perform the duties of ‘the Contractor’ in accordance with the General Conditions of Contract (GCC) which will be based upon the “Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build for Electrical and Mechanical and for Building and Engineering Works, designed by the Contractor”, (Yellow Book), First Edition 1999, ISBN 2-88432-023-7, published by the Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC). These Conditions are subject to the variations and additions as set out in the “Particular Conditions of Contract” (PCC).

The Works shall be divided into the two Sections:

Section 1:
a) Surveys, inspections, and any other undertakings required for the development of the detailed design of the works including the construction drawings; obtaining of all required approvals, by this contract and Applicable Laws, of the design and of other necessary documents required for the Contractor to proceed with due execution of the works and in order for the Employer to obtain the Construction Permit.

b) Execution of the works which do not require design approvals (i.e. works which involve no change to the rail-sleeper lattice), and can be executed in parallel with the Section 1 design preparations, inter alia:
• re-alignment of the track.
• replenishment of the shoulder ballast prism.
• cleaning of ballast.
• replacement of defective fasteners.
• single change of sleepers.

Section 2:
Execution of all other works, inter alia:
• rehabilitation of track superstructure including ballast cleaning to a depth of 30 cm, transition to new jointless track (CWR, Continuous Welded Rail), installation of new concrete sleepers and elastic fastenings (ca. 233 km).
• repair of track bed defects (ca. 55,500 m3).
• renewal of track infrastructure, turnouts and crossings at stations/passing loops (14 sites; ca. 27 km new CWR; 89 new turnouts; 5 new crossings).
• dismantling of track infrastructure and systems at stations/passing loop to be closed (4 sites; ca. 4 km track; 11 turnouts).
• repair of bridge structures, culverts (ca. 96 pcs).
• rehabilitation of level crossings (ca. 39 pcs).
• rehabilitation of signalling, telecommunication and power supply systems.
• construction of new building for Giurgiulesti Station interlocking equipment.
• rehabilitation of ditches, drainage systems, embankments (ca. 1,168,000 m2).

The track shall remain operational throughout the Works and for those works on, or near, the live operational railway, the Contractor must consider that the rehabilitation works can only be undertaken during ‘working windows’.

The contract is expected to start on 01/11/2019 and last about Section 1: 8 months Section 2: 24 months plus Defects Notification Period of 365 days..

A two stage tender procedure will be adopted and will proceed as follows:

(a) the First Stage tender will consist of a technical proposal only, without any reference to prices, and a list of any deviations to the technical and commercial conditions set forth in the tender documents or any alternative technical solutions a tenderer wishes to offer, and a justification therefor, provided always that such deviations or alternative solutions do not change the basic objectives of the project. Following evaluation by the client of the First Stage tenders, the client will invite each tenderer who meets the qualification criteria and who has submitted a technically responsive tender to a clarification meeting. The proposals of all such tenderers will be reviewed at the meeting and all required amendments, additions, deletions and other adjustments will be noted and recorded in a Memorandum. Only qualified tenderers submitting a technically responsive and acceptable First Stage tender will be invited to submit a Second Stage tender.

(b) the Second Stage tender will consist of an updated technical tender incorporating all changes required by the Employer as recorded in the Memorandum to the clarification meeting or as necessary to reflect any amendments to the tender documents issued subsequent to submission of the First Stage tender; and the commercial tender.

First Stage tenders must be submitted by the time and date above mentioned.

This tender will be conducted by e-procurement using the EBRD Client E-Procurement Portal (ECEPP). Interested firms should register on ECEPP at this link:

https://ecepp.ebrd.com/respond/6DCF2K96X9

and express an interest in the tender.The tender documents are available for registered firms to view free of charge on ECEPP. Full conditions for participation are included in the tender documents (tender data section).

Prospective tenderers who have registered in ECEPP and expressed an interest in the tender may access the tender documents free of charge and may request clarification and further information from the client through ECEPP.


Client Address:
Grigore Condurache
CFM
Calea Ferata din Moldova (CFM)
Vlaicu Pircalab 48, Chisinau, MD2012, Moldova
Tel. +3732279444414, Email: grigore.condurache@railway.md