Procurement ref: 9213-IFT-50006
Business sector: Municipal and environmental infrastructure
Project number: 50006
Funding source: EBRD
Contract type: Project goods, works and services
Notice type: Invitation for tenders
Issue date: 24 Aug 2018
Closing date: 22 Oct 2018 at 15:00 Local time

INVITATION FOR TENDERS

Reconstruction of Kapshagai – Kurty highway (67 km) under «Center-South» Corridor

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project which was published on the EBRD website, Procurement Notices (www.ebrd.com) on 19 June, 2018.

JSC «NC «KazAutoZhol», hereinafter referred to as “the Employer”, intends using part of the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) towards the cost of Kapshagai-Kurty Highway (67 km) under the «Center-South» Corridor.

The Employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract to be funded from part of the proceeds of the loan: Reconstruction of Kapshagai-Kurty Highway (67 km). This section of the republican road “Border of Russian Federation (to Yekaterinburg) - Almaty» is one of the sections of “Center-South” corridor: Astana-Karagandy-Balkhash-Kapchagai-Almaty and a main highway of the road network of Almaty, Zhambyl and Karagandy oblasts. It is an extension of Kurty-Burylbaital Highway, which is being reconstructed under the first stage of the EBRD financed project.

Kapshagai-Kurti section of highway is located in Almaty oblast. It passes through the existing embankment of the roadbed, its length - 67,091 km. Highway section is designed as 1-b technical category with 4 lanes.  It is also planned to install reinforced concrete culverts of various diameters, build four passes for cattle, new bridge length 34,7 m, width - 27.38 m, two level clover leaf intersection near the junction of the existing highway to the village Kurty (II category), 19 one-sided ramps, 4 rest areas with short-term parking places and view point areas, pavilions for passengers, etc.

Estimated construction period - 1,125 days.

Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from any country.

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

• Proven successful experience in participation as contractor or management contractor in at least two (2) contracts for construction of asphalt-concrete highways within the last five (5) years, each with a value of at least equivalent to sixty million (60,000,000) US dollars that have been successfully and substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed Works;
• Proven successful experience in participation as contractor or management contractor within the last five (5) years in construction of at least one road bridge with 4 or more lanes  and at least one road intersection connecting the highway with the adjacent roads, as well as  a minimum experience in the following key activities:
  • Asphalt concrete paving of 390 000 m² per year;
  • Earthworks (fill-excavation) – 1,100 000 m3 per year;
•  Soundness of the Tenderer’s financial position and its prospective long term profitability, minimum average annual construction turnover of not less than eighty million (80,000,000) US dollars, calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last five (5) years (2013 – 2017);
• Access to or availability of financial resources such as liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means, other than any contractual advance payments to meet the cash flow requirement for the Contract for a period of three (3) months estimated as not less than eight million (8,000,000) US dollars equivalent, and the overall cash flow requirements for this Contract and its current commitments;
• Access to or availability of machines and equipment required for construction of highways, qualified and availability of qualified and experienced personnel;
• Other qualification criteria specified in the tender documents.

Electronic copies of tender documents may be obtained free of charge from the office at the address below based on a request written on a letterhead of the company signed by its authorised representative.

All tenders must be accompanied by a tender security in the amount equivalent to two million (2,000,000) US dollars. The tender security shall be denominated in US dollars or in tenge at the exchange rate established by the National Bank of Kazakhstan for the date 14 day before the deadline for submission of tenders.

Tenders must be delivered to the office at the address below on or before 15:00 Astana time, 22 October 2018, at which time they will be opened in the presence of those tenderers’ representatives who choose to attend. Late tenders will not be accepted.

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

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:

Ms. Raushan M. Taenova

Head Projects Expertise Division

JSC “NC“KazAvtoZhol”

Business Centre “Milano”, 8 Amman str.

3^rd floor, Room 310

Astana, 010000 Republic of Kazakhstan

[email protected]

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