Project ID: P095977
Borrower/Bid No: RSDPAF- W-RS-NCB-STD-05

Country: Nepal

Project Id: P095977

Project Name: Road Sector Development Project

Loan Info.: IDA-50020

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Government of Nepal

Ministry of Physical Infrastructure & Transport

Department of Roads

Road SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Project ADDITIONAL FINANCING (RSDPAF)

Saogaucharan, Kathmandu

INVITATION FOR BIDS Notice No.: RSDPAF/2/2073-74

First date of publication: .......................................

Contract Identification Number: RSDPAF- W-RS-NCB-STD-05

CREDIT NUMBER: 5002  

1. Government of Nepal, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Department of Roads has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) towards the cost of Road Sector Development Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this finance to payments under the Contract RSDPAF- W-RS-NCB-STD-05.

2. The Department of Roads, Foreign Cooperation Branch, Sanogaucharan on behalf of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Nepal now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for Road Safety Works at Surkhet-Tallodhungeswor-Dailekh Road, Tallodungeswor-DahiKhola Road and Dahikhola-Jumla Road in the Contract Package as shown below. The construction period is Five months.

3. Bidding will be conducted following the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) procedures specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits, May 2004 and revised in May 2010 and January 2011 and is open to all bidders from Eligible Source Countries as defined in the Bidding Documents.

4. Interested Eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Program Coordinator, RSDP and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below during office hours or may visit Department of Roads (DoR) website http://www.dor.gov.np E-procurement section.

5. Bidders are advised to refer to the qualifications requirements specified in the bid documents and the qualification requirements are also available at the DoR website http://www.dor.gov.np E-procurement section.

6. Bidders have the option to submit their bids electronically through DoR E-submission system.

7. A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be downloaded from the DoR website or be purchased by interested Bidders on the submission of a written Application to the address below and upon payment of a non refundable fee or its equivalent in freely convertible currency for each slice as shown in the table above. Bidding documents can be purchased up to office hours of ..............................(date) from the following:

Department of Roads, ,

Foreign Cooperation Branch,

Sanogaucharan, Kathmandu, Nepal

For the purpose of Bidders who choose to submit their bid electronically through E-procurement section of DoR’s Web Site: http://www.dor.gov.np, the Bidders may either purchase the hard copy of bidding documents or may choose to download the necessary part of bidding documents, prepare their bids and submit their electronic bids as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. In case of Bidder who choose to download and submit bid electronically, the Bidder shall be required to deposit the cost of bidding document (as specified in the table above) in the Project’s Rajaswa (revenue) account as specified below and electronic scanned copy (pdf format) of the Bank deposit voucher/tele transfer receipt shall also be submitted along with the electronic bid files.

Bidders may download the bid document from website http://www.dor.gov.np E-procurement section. Payment for the bid document may be made through a cash deposit or through a tele-transfer of the applicable amounts (as specified in the table above) in the Project’s Rajaswa (revenue) account as specified below, with the original of the bank deposit voucher/tele-transfer receipt being submitted together with hard copy of its bid.

Information for depositing the cost of bidding document in Bank:

Name of the Bank: Nepal Rastra Bank, Thapathali

Name of Office: Road Sector Development Project, Sanogaucharan

Office Code No.: 27 – 337 – 45

Office Account No. Ka – 1 – 1 – 999

Rajaswa (revenue) Shirshak No. 14227

8. Bids must be delivered to Deputy Director General, Foreign Cooperation Branch, Department of Roads, Sanogaucharan, Kathmandu, Nepal on or before 12:00 hrs of (Date). Alternatively, Bidders may submit their bid electronically through E-procurement section in DoR Web Site: http://www.dor.gov.np before the above deadline and as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. Late bids will be rejected and not opened. Bids received by the above mentioned deadline will be opened physically and electronically in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend in person at the address below immediately on the same day after bid submission deadline.

9. All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Security for the amount as specified in the table above in local currency or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. Bidders are required to submit a separate bid security for each contract for which they submit bids.

10. Bids shall be valid for the period as mentioned in the table above after the deadline for Bid submission and Bid security shall be valid up to the period as mentioned in the table above.

11. Bidders may bid for one or both contracts comprising this package as described in the table above. Bidders bidding for more than one contract in the package will so indicate in their Letter of Bid, together with a statement regarding any discount/cross discount offered for the award of more than one contract. Evaluation of such bids will be carried out in accordance with the procedure set out under Section III - Evaluation and Qualification Criteria.; 1.2 Multiple Contracts.

12. The bidder's aggregate qualifications will be verified taking into account the following (a) any other bids under RSDPAF submitted by the same bidder and/ or joint venture partner within 45 days prior to the bid submission deadline/s for bid/s under this invitation, and (b) any awarded decision/s under RADP-AF made by the Department of Roads within 45 days to award of contract/s under the current bidding.

13. Pre-bid meeting will be held in the address mentioned below at 11:00 hours on (Date). All interested bidders are encouraged to attend this pre-bid meeting.

14. The bidder shall submit the bid with letter of bid duly completed as per Instructions to Bidders Clause 12.1. The bid without the total bid amount shall be considered non responsive and shall be rejected.

15. The Department of Roads reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids and to annul the bidding process and reject all bids without assigning any reason, whatsoever.

16. If the specified date for pre-bid meeting, last date of bid purchasing and submission/opening date falls on a Government holiday then these events shall be shifted to the same time on the next working day. However, the last date for bid submission and opening shall be considered the next working day after the last date of bid purchasing. In such cases the validity of bid security shall be considered from already specified last date for bid submission.

 Department of Roads

 Foreign Cooperation Branch

 Sanogaucharan, Kathmandu