Invitation for Bids

1. The Republic of Armenia has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of: North-South Road Corridor Investment Program. Part of this loan will be used for payments under the contract named above. Bidding is open to bidders from eligible source countries of the ADB as per Section 5 of the Bid Document.

2. The Ministry of  Territorial  Administration  and Infrastructure  of the Republic  of Armenia  (“the Employer”) invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the construction and the completion of the project: CW-ICB-T2-2022/2 - Completion of construction of about 34.0 km of highway M1 Yerevan-Gyumri-Bavra (from km 37+545 to km 71+435)  (“the Works”).

The Works involves the completion of construction of approximately 34 km of dual 2 lane carriageway with asphalt pavement, associated structures and interchanges.

The Works include approximately 820,000 m³ of excavation (of which 373 000 m³ is in rock) and 636,000 m³ of embankment fill.

The following elements are included in the works:

All Works must be undertaken in accordance with ADB Safeguards Policy Statement (SPS)

The Contractor shall carry out the Works in accordance with the detailed design and the requirements of the technical specifications, which are part of the Bidding Document to be provided by the Employer.

3. International Competitive Bidding will be conducted in accordance with ADB’s Single Stage – Two-Envelope without prequalification bidding procedure and is open to all Bidders from eligible countries as described in the Bidding Document.

4. Only eligible Bidders with the following and other key qualifications mentioned in the Section 3 and Section 6 of the Bidding Documents should participate in this bidding:

• Pending Litigation: All pending litigation and arbitration, if any, shall be treated as resolved against the Bidder and so shall in total not represent more than 50 (fifty) percent of the Bidder’s net worth calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities.
• Financial Situation: As a minimum, the Bidder’s net worth for the last year calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities should be positive. Minimum average annual construction turnover of USD 60,000,000 (sixty million) calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last 5 (five) years. Bidder must demonstrate that its financial resources meet or exceed the total requirement for the Subject Contract of US$ 10,000,000 (ten million).
• Construction Experience: Participation in at least one contract that has been successfully or substantially completed within the last 10 (ten) years and that is similar to the proposed works, where the value of the Bidder’s participation exceeds USD 48 000 000 (forty-eight million).

      More details of qualification requirements are mentioned in the Section 3 and Section 6 of the Bidding Documents.

5. To obtain further information and inspect the bidding documents, bidders should contact:

“Road Department” Fund

Executive Director: Gor Avetisyan

Address: 1^st floor, Government House 3, Republic Square, 0010, Yerevan, RA

Tel: +37410542176

      E-mail: procurement@armroad.am, hasmik.ordukhanyan@armroad.am

6. To receive the soft version /by CD or Email/ of the bidding documents in English at no cost, bidders should write to the address above requesting the bidding documents for CW-ICB-T2-2022/2 - Completion of construction of about 34.0 km of highway M1 Yerevan-Gyumri-Bavra (from km 37+545 to km 71+435) (“the Works”).

7. Deliver your bid:

• to the address above
• on or before the deadline: 06 October 2022 at 16:00 hours (Yerevan time)
• Together with a Bid Security as described in the Bidding Document.

Bids will be opened immediately after the deadline in the presence of bidders’ representatives who choose to attend.

Invitation for Bids

Country: Republic of Armenia

Project Name: Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing

Loan No: 8957-AM

Contract Title: Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections:

H-32M1-Gyumri-Kaps-Amasia-M1 km2+600 - km3+900; km4+400 - km4+980; km7+380 - km8+020,

H-21 H75-Horom-Artik-Alagyaz km 2+831 - km 3+420 (v. Gusanagyugh) (Lot 1)

and

Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections:

H-15 M5-Armavir-Argavand-Margara km 3+100 - km 3+610; km 5+900 - km 6+060,

H-17 M5-Armavir-M9 km 3+310 - km 3+963; km 7+750 - km 8+805 (Lot 2)

Reference No. CW-NCB-LRNIP-AF2-2022/16

Employer: Road Department Fund of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures

Phone: (+374) 010 511 391

Website: www.armroad.am

1. The Republic of Armenia has received additional financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-32M1-Gyumri-Kaps-Amasia-M1 km2+600 - km3+900; km4+400 - km4+980; km7+380 - km8+020, H-21 H75-Horom-Artik-Alagyaz km 2+831 - km 3+420 (v. Gusanagyugh) (Lot 1) and Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-15 M5-Armavir-Argavand-Margara km 3+100 - km 3+610; km 5+900 - km 6+060, H-17 M5-Armavir-M9 km 3+310 - km 3+963; km 7+750 - km 8+805 (Lot 2).
2. The Road Department Fund of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-32M1-Gyumri-Kaps-Amasia-M1 km2+600 - km3+900; km4+400 - km4+980; km7+380 - km8+020, H-21 H75-Horom-Artik-Alagyaz km 2+831 - km 3+420 (v. Gusanagyugh) (Lot 1) and Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-15 M5-Armavir-Argavand-Margara km 3+100 - km 3+610; km 5+900 - km 6+060, H-17 M5-Armavir-M9 km 3+310 - km 3+963; km 7+750 - km 8+805 (Lot 2).

The Works consist of Main type of works required: pothole patching, asphalt concrete overlay, installation of Metal Guardrails, installation of road Signs, Road Marking Works etc.

The Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-32M1-Gyumri-Kaps-Amasia-M1 km2+600 - km3+900; km4+400 - km4+980; km7+380 - km8+020, H-21 H75-Horom-Artik-Alagyaz km 2+831 - km 3+420 (v. Gusanagyugh) (Lot 1) should be completed within 2 (two) months and the Civil works for black spots improvement works of road sections: H-15 M5-Armavir-Argavand-Margara km 3+100 - km 3+610; km 5+900 - km 6+060, H-17 M5-Armavir-M9 km 3+310 - km 3+963; km 7+750 - km 8+805 (Lot 2) should be completed within 2 (two) months.

3. Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: “Procurement regulations for IPF Borrowers” (July 2016 revised in November 2017 and August 2018), and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the Procurement Guidelines. In addition, please refer to paragraphs 3.14 and 3.15 setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
4. Interested eligible bidders may download the complete BDs from the following web page www.gnumner.am or www.armeps.am. The bidders registered in the e-procurement system will receive this Invitation for Bid with the attached BDs automatically (in according to the specified CPV codes). Any company can register in the e-procurement system and become enable to submit the bid following to the ARMEPS (www.armeps.am website) e-procurement system.

However the Road Department Fund will not be responsible for incorrect or incomplete downloading documents by the potential bidders, or missing of amendments to those (if any).

5. Bids must be submitted only through the e-procurement system ARMEPS (www.armeps.am website) e-procurement system on or before 16:00 (Yerevan time) on August 19, 2022. The e-procurement system will not allow/permit the submission of the Late bids.  
6. As specified in ITB 19.1 all bids must be accompanied by a “Bid-Securing Declaration”. The bid for each lot should be accompanied by a separate “Bid-Securing Declaration”.

NOTICE

ON OPEN TENDER

This text of the notice is approved by decision of the Open Tender Commission

N 1 of 13 July of 2022 and is published

Code of the open tender CHD-BMKHTsDzB-2022/01

The Customer, Road Department Fund, located at the address 3 Government House,  Yerevan, RA, The bidder selected based on the results of the open tender will be proposed, in a prescribed manner, to conclude a contract for provision of Services of the LARP implementation Consultant (hereinafter referred to as "the contract").

Pursuant to Article 7 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia "On procurement", any person, irrespective of the fact of being a foreign natural person, an organisation or a stateless person, shall have equal right to participate in this tender.

The qualification criteria for the persons ineligible to participate in the tender, as well as for bidders, and the documents to be submitted for evaluation of those criteria shall be established by the invitation for this procedure.

The selected bidder shall be determined from among the bidders having submitted bids evaluated as satisfying the requirements of the invitation, by the principle of giving preference to the bidder having submitted the lowest price proposal.

The provisions of the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization shall apply to this tender.

For receiving the hard copy of the invitation to tender, it is necessary to apply to the contracting authority by 16:00 o'clock of the 15^th day from the date of publication of this notice. Moreover, an application in writing must be submitted to the contracting authority for receiving the hard copy of the invitation. The contracting authority shall ensure the free of charge provision of the hard copy of the invitation on the first working day following the receipt of such request.

In case of a request to provide the invitation electronically, the contracting authority shall ensure the free of charge provision of the invitation electronically within the working day following the date of receipt of the application.

Failure to receive the invitation shall not limit the bidder's right to participate in this procedure.

The bids for the tender must be submitted to the following address: 3 Government House,  Yerevan, RA, in hard copy, by 16:00 o'clock of the 15^th day from the date of publication of this notice. The bids may, in addition to Armenian, also be submitted in English or Russian.

The bid opening will take place at the following address: 3 Government House, Yerevan, RA, on 29^th of July 2022, at 16:00 o'clock.

For further information regarding this announcement, apply to Secretary of the Evaluation Commission Liana Gharagyozyan:

tel: + 374 010 54 21 76

email: procurement@armroad.am  

Customer: Road Department Fund

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

 (with extended deadline)

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)

COUNTRY: Republic of Armenia

NAME OF PROJECT: Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing (LRNIP AF2)

Loan No: 8957-AM

Assignment Title: Preparation of Implementation Completion and Results Report for the Lifeline Road Network improvement Project

Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan): RD-IC-ICRR-LRNIP-AF2-2022

07 July, 2022

The Republic of Armenia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing (LRNIP AF 2) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Within the scope of the assignment, the Consultant shall prepare and submit to the Client the Borrower’s Implementation Completion Report (BICR), which shall include the results of both the final impact assessment of the Project (to be carried out by the Consultant) and other evaluations and monitoring reports carried out by the Project implementing team and other Consultants.

It is expected that this assignment will start in August-September 2022 and be completed at November-December 2022.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest.

The “Road Department” Fund (Client) now invites eligible individual consultants (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide Expressions of interest (detailed CVs) demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The shortlisting criteria are:

• degree in economics or finance or engineering or sociology or law or a related field, with at least 10 years total working experience,
• at least 5 years experience of carrying out similar projects evaluation, preferably in the road infrastructure sector.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised November 2017, August 2018 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection of Individual Consultants method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during 10:00 to 17:00 office hours (local time).

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form in English to the address below in person, or by mail in the Adobe PDF format by 28 July 2022, 18:00 (Yerevan time).

“Road Department” Fund
Attn: Mr. G. Avetisyan, Executive Director
Republic Square, Government House 3, 1^st Floor
Yerevan, 0010, Armenia
E-mail: procurement@armroad.am, hasmik.ordukhanyan@armroad.am

TERMS OF REFERENCE

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)

COUNTRY: Republic of Armenia

NAME OF PROJECT: Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing (LRNIP AF2)

Loan No: 8957-AM

Assignment Title: Preparation of Implementation Completion and Results Report for the Lifeline Road Network improvement Project

Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan): RD-IC-ICRR-LRNIP-AF2-2022

07 July, 2022

The Republic of Armenia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lifeline Roads Network Improvement Project Second Additional Financing (LRNIP AF 2) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Within the scope of the assignment, the Consultant shall prepare and submit to the Client the Borrower’s Implementation Completion Report (BICR), which shall include the results of both the final impact assessment of the Project (to be carried out by the Consultant) and other evaluations and monitoring reports carried out by the Project implementing team and other Consultants.

It is expected that this assignment will start in August-September 2022 and be completed at November-December 2022.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest.

The “Road Department” Fund (Client) now invites eligible individual consultants (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide Expressions of interest (detailed CVs) demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The shortlisting criteria are:

• degree in economics or finance or engineering or sociology or law or a related field, with at least 10 years total working experience,
• at least 5 years experience of carrying out similar projects evaluation, preferably in the road infrastructure sector.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised November 2017, August 2018 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection of Individual Consultants method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during 10:00 to 17:00 office hours (local time).

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form in English to the address below in person, or by mail in the Adobe PDF format by 21 July 2022, 18:00 (Yerevan time).

“Road Department” Fund
Attn: Mr. G. Avetisyan, Executive Director
Republic Square, Government House 3, 1^st Floor
Yerevan, 0010, Armenia
E-mail: procurement@armroad.am, hasmik.ordukhanyan@armroad.am

TERMS OF REFERENCE