Ethiopian Roads Administration invites bidders for Kebridehar Section (Kebridehar - Gode) Periodic Road Maintenance Project

The Bidder must demonstrate 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.

Peak annual construction turnover of ETB 68 Million calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed within the last Five (5) years.

The Bidder must demonstrate 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 following cash-flow requirement: 

• ETB 56 Million 

Bidder is found to have a conflict of interest as

described in ITB Clause 6;

Bidder does have nationality in accordance with

ITB Clause 4.2.

 Bidder has to submit a valid tax clearance certificate issued by the tax authority in accordance with ITB Clause 4.5(b)(iii).

 Bidder has not been debarred by a decision of the Public Procurement and Property Administration Authority from participating in public procurements for breach of its obligation under previous contracts, in accordance with ITB Clause 4.3;

Bidder has to submit valid business license

indicating the stream of business in which the

Bidder is engaged, in accordance with ITB Clause

4.5(b)(i);

Bidder has to submit business organization

registration certificate in accordance with ITB

Clause 4.5(c).

Having been submitted VAT registration

certificate issued by the tax authority in

accordance with ITB Clause 4.5

In the case of a bid submitted by a Partnership,

Consortium or a joint venture (JV), the Bidder

has to submit the Form Data on Partnership,

Consortium or Joint Ventures, the Agreement

governing the formation of joint venture, or

letter of intent to form Partnership, Consortium

or Joint Venture, including a draft agreement, in

accordance with ITB Clause 4.1.

Except where the bidder is already

registered in the securities market; in case of

Partnerships, Consortium or Joint Ventures, the

bidder submit a separate Beneficial Ownership

Disclosure Form for each member; disclose at

least one of the following: -

1) Directly or indirectly holding 10% or more of

the shares.

2) Directly or indirectly holding 10% or more of

the Voting Rights or

3) Directly or indirectly having the right to

appoint a majority of the board of Directors or an

equivalent governing body of the consultant or

4) Whether a person directly or indirectly

exercises significant influence or control over the

Company (tendered)

Compliance with conditions of ITB

Clause 4.4.

Having been registered in the

government electronics system (e-

GP) in accordance with ITB Clause

4.6(a).

Bidder has to submit a valid tax clearance

certificate issued by the tax authority (Domestic

Bidders Only) in accordance with ITB Clause

4.5(b)(ii).

Bidder has failed to provide CVs of the

Professional staff signed by the staff themselves

or by the authorized representative of the

Professional Staff.

Bidder must demonstrate in its

Technical Proposal that it will have

the personnel for the key positions

that meet requirements

Bidder has to provide in the Bidder Certification

of Compliance Form information related to its

professional qualification and capability for the

period specified in the BDS Clause 15.1;

1) Non-performance of a contract did not occur within the last Two (2) years prior to the deadline for Qualification submission based on all information on fully settled dispute or litigation. A fully settled dispute or litigation is one that has been resolved in accordance with the Dispute Resolution Mechanism under the respective contract, and where all appeal instances available to the Bidder have exhausted. In addition to the submitted information, the respective contract, and where all appeal instances available to the Bidder have been exhausted. 

In addition to the submitted information, the Employer reserves the right to obtain any records of non-Performance of the Bidders in the past 2 years from official records within or outside of Ethiopia as a basis for qualification.

2) If the Employer, based on full documentary evidence, establishes poor performance by any Bidder engaged in similar works in Africa and other developing countries, on any contracts carried out over the last 2 years. Or if a bidder is not performing to the satisfaction of the Employer on the already awarded contracts, then the Employer may use this information in the assessment of the Bidders’ qualifications.

3) Evaluation of Contractor’s Performance shall be conducted regularly. Any Contractor’s performance shall be evaluated based on the ERA’s Contractor’s performance assessment framework and rated accordingly. The minimum acceptable performance on ongoing contracts shall be revised to reflect the actual situations. The minimum acceptable performance on ongoing contracts is set from time to time by ERA BOARD.

4) If ERA found Nonperformance or poor Performance history of a Bidder at any stage of the tendering process before signing of the contract agreement [except for ERA’s Monthly Contractor’s performance assessment framework, the result of which is considered only for the preceding month before submission of bid], the bidder will be rejected from the proceeding stage of the tendering.

5) ERA will request performance of bidders on their current work performance from their respective clients (for those bidders who have no current contract Commitment with ERA) and same will be copied it to the bidders. Hence, bidders are strongly advised to facilities in order to obtain timely response from their clients within ten (10) working days of receiving of such requests. Failure to obtain such response within the stated time might result in rejection of bidders bid and the client may not take any responsibility on the matter.”

6) Moreover, for bidders who had on-going and previous relationships with the Client, ERA would further carry out objective and qualitative assessments of the performance of the Contractor on the relevant parameters defined in the respective contracts, including compliance with quality, environmental, and other requirements, in addition to the physical progress to determine performance accomplishment to the satisfaction of the Client.   

BC – 2, RC – 3 or GC – 3  and above

The Bidder must demonstrate that it

will have available for the

implementation of the contract the

following equipment listed

hereafter:

All pending litigation shall in total not represent more than ,,,, [insert required percent] percent of the Bidder’s net worth and shall be treated as resolved against the Bidder.

Bidder has failed to provide in the Bidder Certification of Compliance Form information about contracts similar to the proposed Works in the number, value, and period 

Two (2) years firm experience under construction contracts in the role of Contractor, Joint Venture partner or sub-contractor.

Bidder has failed to provide in the

Bidder Certification of Compliance

Form information about major

relevant contracts successfully

completed

Proposal of Work Methods and Program, in Sufficient detail to demonstrate the adequacy of the bidder’s proposal to meet the technical specifications within the completion period.

A Minimum of any type of construction works with a value of ETB 90 Million; 

OR

Minimum of two (2) any type of construction works each with a value of ETB 45 Million

In all cases, the experiences shall be within the last ten (10) years that has been successfully and substantially completed (70% Completed).

Domestic contractors must have completed, within the past ten years, at least one construction project similar in nature to the proposed works. The contractor must have completed at least 70% of the work in a satisfactory and acceptable manner, either as a sole contractor, joint venture member, or subcontractor. or if the contractor may not meet the relevant work experience requirement by having completed one similar project experience across three completed projects of similar nature may be submitted, provided the cumulative value is not less than one-third of the required threshold.

In cases where relevant work experience is based on subcontracting or joint ventures, only the portion executed directly by the contractor or corresponding to its share in the joint venture shall be considered. 

. For the implementation of this Article:

a) “Substantially Completed” means a project in which at least 70% (for domestic contractors) 

b) “Satisfactorily Completed” means a project in which at least 70% of the works have been executed by the contractor within the agreed schedule, including any approved extensions, and where a certificate of satisfactory completion, payment certificate, or other verifiable documentation from the client confirms that the required quality standards have been achieved