Procurement of specialized contractor or operator for operation and maintenance of koye feche (1 site) and chefe phase wastewater treatment plant.

Source: World Bank — Second Ethiopia Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project

SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE

PROCUREMENT OF NON-CONSULTING SERVICE

 Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project (2nd UWSSP)

Credit No. : -IDA-60070

Contract Title: - Operation and Maintenance Service for chefe phase I and koyefetche lot III waste water treatment plants in Addis Ababa City.

Reference No: - ET-AAWSA-91639-NC-RFB

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Operation and Maintenance of Chefe phase I and Koyefetche lot III waste water treatment plants in Addis Ababa City.

The Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA) Water and Sanitation Development & Rehabilitation Project Office now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for operation and maintenance service for the two WWTPs with a total capacity of 24,807 m3/d.

Chefe phase I Wastewater Treatment Plant: This is a centralized conventional Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) based plant. It has a design capacity of 12,500m3/d. The plant consists of inlet chamber, screen chambers with mechanical coarse and fine screens, aerated grit chambers, UASB units, trickling Filters, secondary clarifiers, chlorination and dechlorination units, bypass system, control building and sludge drying beds.

Koye fetche (lot III) waste water treatment plant: - This is a Conventional Activated Sludge based plant. It has a design capacity of 12,307m3/d. The plants consist of inlet chamber, package pretreatment unit, primary clarifiers, aeration tanks, MBR tanks, filtrate tanks, mechanical dewatering system.

The estimated duration of O&M service is 36 months.

Bidders shall furnish documentary evidence that it meets the following requirement(s): (i) Bidders must have relevant experience least 2 conventional wastewater treatment plants with capacity of at least 15,000 m3/day each with min value of USD 2,500,000 or USD 5 million in aggregate or 1 wastewater treatment plan with capacity of min 25,000M3/day with minimum value of 5,000,000.00USD (with similar complexity, methods, technology, etc.) (ii) audited financial statements average annual construction turn over minimum USD 2,400,000.00 (dollar two million four hundred thousand only) calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last 5 [five] years, divided by 5[five] years, (iii) The Applicant shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means (independent of any contractual advance payment) sufficient to meet the cash flow requirements estimated as USD $648,000.00(six hundred forty eight thousand US$]for the subject contract(s) net of the Applicants other commitments), (iv) documentary evidences historical contract performance of the bidder, general qualification and number of key staff and equipment for the execution of the service. 

Margin of preference is not applicable to this bid.  Bidding will be conducted through the International Competitive Bidding procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement of Goods, Works and Non-Consulting Services under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers dated January 2011 and revised July 2014(“Procurement Guidelines”), and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the Procurement Guidelines.  In addition, please refer to paragraphs 1.6 and 1.7 setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from AAWSA-Water and Sanitation Development & Rehabilitation Project Office and inspect the bidding documents during office hours from 9:00 am -12:30 pm in the morning and 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm in the afternoon at the address given below.

A complete set of bidding documents in English language may be purchased by interested eligible bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of Ethiopian Birr (ETB) 700.00 (ETB seven hundred only). The method of payment will be in cash or deposit to the bank account of the project office which is 1000024625153 at commercial bank of Ethiopia megenagna branch.   The document will be sent by in person or by air mail for overseas delivery.

Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before July 25/ 2019 at 2:00 pm. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who choose to attend at the address below on July 25/ 2019,  at 2:30 pm.

All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of ETB 1,700,000 (ETB one million seven hundred thousand only) or equivalent in freely convertible foreign currency in the name of Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA) Water and Sanitation Development &Rehabilitation Project Office.

The address referred to above is :-

Addis Ababa Water Supply Authority (AAWSA), Water and Sanitation Development and Rehabilitation Project Office,

Attn:  Ephrem Wubeshet, Procurement Support Process, Head

P.O. Box:   1436/1110, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sub city: - Lideta kifle ketema kebele 04 around Lideta condominium site on the left side of lideta menafesha.

Tel: +251-118720825 or +251-118291315

City: - Addis Ababa

E-mail address: -eph77@yahoo.com

Country: - Ethiopia