Ebrd Contract Award Notice

Tender/Contract Reference No: 7354994: Design and Rehabilitation of railway section Bender-Basarabeasca-Etulia-Giurgiulesti

Scope Of Contract: 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’.

Duration of Contract: 48 months

Contract Award Date: 07/12/2020




Awarded Tenderer(s):

"Temirzhol Zhondeu" LLP
10, D.Kunaev str, Esil district, Astana
Astana
010000
Kazakhstan

Tender price at tender opening: EUR 113,080,613.73
Evaluated Tender Price (in evaluation currency): EUR 102,800,557.94
Evaluated Tender Price (Euro Equivalent): € 102,800,557.94
Contract Price (in evaluation currency): EUR 113,080,613.73
Contract Price (Euro Equivalent): € 113,080,613.73

Is this a JVCA: No

Evaluated Tenderer(s):

LİMAK Inşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Hafta Sokak No.9 GOP
Ankara
06700
Turkey

Tender price at tender opening: EUR 155,133,020.98
Evaluated Tender Price (in evaluation currency): EUR 128,209,108.25
Evaluated Tender Price (Euro Equivalent): € 128,209,108.25
Reason For Rejection: ${tenderer.reason}

Is this a JVCA: Yes

JVCA Details:
LIMAK Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi
Hafta Sokak №9 Cankaya
Ankara, Turkey, 06700
Lead partner: Yes
Zhengzhou Zhongyuan Railway Engineering CO., LTD.
Railway Garden Street №55, Erqi District
Zhengzhou, China, 450000
Lead partner: No


RZD International LLC
Arkhangelskiy per, 10A
Moscow
105005
Russian Federation (the)

Tender price at tender opening: EUR 164,909,003.65
Evaluated Tender Price (in evaluation currency): EUR 149,917,276.05
Evaluated Tender Price (Euro Equivalent): € 149,917,276.05
Reason For Rejection: ${tenderer.reason}

Is this a JVCA: No