Small cities Sanitation Programme - 9689-IFT-49268

Tunisia

Small cities Sanitation project - EBRD / 49268

Operation reference: NT.2-2-2

INVITATION FOR TENDERS

58 / 2024

THE CONSTRUCTION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS IN GOUBELLAT, ZAHRET MEDIEN IN THE GOVERNORATE OF BEJA AND OUED M’LIZ AND BENI M’TIR IN THE GOVERNORATE OF JENDOUBA, RESPECTIVELY LOTS N°1, 2 AND 3.

Project Name: Small cities Sanitation Programme.

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

The National Sanitation Utility "ONAS", hereinafter referred to as “the Employer”, intends using part of the proceeds of loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the African Development Bank towards the cost of The Small cities Sanitation Programme for less than 10.000 inhabitants - Phase I (PAPC-I) to finance “the carrying out of civil engineering and supply, transport, assembly and testing works electromechanical and electrical equipment necessary for the construction of wastewater treatment plants in the towns of Goubellat, Zahret Medien in the governorate of Beja and Oued Mliz in the governorate of Jendouba, respectively lots n°1, 2 and 3.

The planned work consists of three (03) lots:

• Lot N^°1: Civil Engineering Works and Equipment for the Goubellat Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Governorate of Beja;
  
• Lot N^°2 : Civil Engineering Works and Equipment for the Zahret Medien Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Governorate of Beja;
  
• Lot N^°3 : Civil Engineering Works and Equipment for the Oued Mliz Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Governorate of Jendouba;
  The wastewater treatment plants will be sized according to the following nominal hydraulic and pollutant loads to meet the needs by 2041:

Only natural or legal persons capable of obliging themselves may participate who present the guarantees, in particular technical and financial, and the references necessary for the proper performance of the obligations that will be made, which are not in a state of bankruptcy or liquidation, judicial or, for foreigners, in a similar situation provided for by the law of their country.

The eligibility criteria except the country of origin of the companies and the selection procedures will be in accordance with the procurement framework for operations financed the African Development Bank, October 2015 Edition, which are available at the Bank's website at: http://www.afdb.org.

The works under this contract include the following tasks:

• The works of providing, installing and testing electromechanical equipment are assigned to all companies specialized in the field of electromechanical equipment,
• Civil engineering works are entrusted to company specializing in civil engineering works having an approval for road works and various networks for Tunisian companies, or equivalent approvals for foreign companies according to law of their native country as following :

*In the case of participation in a group, the leader will be the Civil Engineering Company, which must have the approval requested by this Call for Tenders in fact for Tunisian companies or equivalent for foreign companies.

*In the case of subcontracting:

The civil engineering company can subcontract the equipment part according to a list of its subcontractors to be attached to the offer.

The amounts of provisional guarantees or bank guarantees, which replace them, are as follows for each separate lot:

Lot N° 1: One hundred and fifty thousand Tunisian dinars (150,000.000 DT) or forty-five thousand Euros (45,000.00 Euros)

Lot N° 2: One hundred and twenty thousand Tunisian dinars (120,000,000 DT) or Thirty-five thousand Euros (35,000.00 Euros)

Lot N°3: One hundred thousand Tunisian dinars (100,000.000 DT) or thirty thousand Euros (30,000.00 Euros)

Interested companies can obtain additional information at the address mentioned below during the following office opening hours (8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. local time).

Companies wishing to participate in this call for tenders can withdraw the file from the central order office at the headquarters of the national sanitation office located at 32 rue Hédi Nouira 1001 Tunis and this (from Monday to Friday) against payment in the amount of three Hundred Dinars (300 TDN) non-refundable or its equivalent in convertible currency.

The technical offer and the financial offer are placed in two separate closed and sealed envelopes and in two copies (original and copy). These two envelopes, the provisional guarantee or the bank guarantee which replaces it, the administrative documents and supporting documents accompanying the offer will be placed in a third closed and sealed envelope indicating the reference of the above-mentioned call for tenders and its subject.

The technical offer and the financial offer are placed in two separate closed and sealed envelopes and in two copies (original and copy). These two envelopes, the provisional bond or the bank guarantee that replaces it, the administrative documents and supporting documents accompanying the offer will be placed in a third closed and sealed envelope indicating the reference of the above-mentioned call for tenders and its subject.

Any offer that does not include the provisional deposit or does not comply with the above-mentioned conditions will be rejected.

The envelopes containing the offers (technical and financial) must be sent in the name of the President Director General of ONAS by post and registered or by rapid-post or direct delivery against an acknowledgment of receipt and reach the order office. ONAS central located at 32 rue Hédi Nouira 1001 at the address mentioned below no later than 27 February 2025 at 10H00 (local time in Tunis).

The period during which the tenderers will remain committed by their offers is 120 days from the day after the deadline for receipt of the tenders.

The central order office stamp is authentic.

Any offer received after this deadline will be rejected.

The opening of the bids for technical and financial bids will be carried out in a single public meeting at the head office of ONAS on 27 February 2025 at 10H15 am at the opening room of the bids. The representatives of the bidders must be provided with duly signed powers of attorney.

ONAS main desk registering mails

For the attention of ONAS CEO

32 rue Hédi Nouira Tunis 1001 – Republic of Tunisia

Phone: (00216) 71 346100

Fax: (00216) 71 350 411

E-Mail: boc @ onas.nat.tn

‘’All documents submitted must be in French’’