Contract Supervision, FIDIC Engineer Role (GPN)

Section I: Contracting authority

Name and addresses:

Official name: NPC ‘Ukrenergo’
Postal address: 25, Symona Petliury Street
Town: Kyiv
NUTS code: UA Ukraine
Postal code: 01032
Country: Ukraine
Contact person: Victor Lysykh
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: +38 0442383014
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://ua.energy/

Communication: Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

Type of the contracting authority: Body governed by public law

Main activity: Other activity: Electricity

Section II: Object

Scope of the procurement

Title: Contract Supervision, FIDIC Engineer Role

Reference number: EIB-GtP/UE-002

Main CPV code: 71520000 Construction supervision services

Type of contract: Services

Short description:

Administration and the supervision of the 3 contracts for rehabilitation of the 9 substations with voltage class from 330 kV and higher.

Estimated total value

Information about lots: This contract is divided into lots: no

Description

Place of performance: NUTS code: UA Ukraine

Main site or place of performance:
Ukrenergo’s modernisation plan encompasses a total of 9 designated existing Ukrenergo HV substation sites located in Dnipro Power System of Ukraine.

Description of the procurement:

Private Joint Stock Company ‘National Power Company ‘Ukrenergo’ (hereinafter referred to ‘Ukrenergo’ or ‘the Client’) has received a loan from the European Investment Bank – EIB (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Bank’). The Bank’s financing will be focused on comprehensive works for automation and upgrade of 9 330-750 kV substations in Dnipro power system of Ukraine. The main objective of the project is to increase the reliability of electricity transmission, improving the efficiency of the transmission network and reducing the costs of operating and repairing the TSO substations. The automation of the control processes at the substations will facilitate the parallel and synchronised operation of the power system of Ukraine with ENTSO-E.

The investments will be procured in accordance with the EIB Procurement Guide for projects financed by EIB and this procurement notice.

Ukrenergo and the Bank have now agreed that the assistance of an experienced and reputable consultancy firm or consortium of consultancy firms (the ‘Consultant’) is required to provide construction supervision services as FIDIC Engineer.

The consultant shall be required:

1) To supervise the civil works for 3 contracts (9 substation with voltage class from 330 kV and higher) as the ‘Engineer’ under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant&Design-Build (First Ed., 1999) Yellow Book;

2) To assist in project management, in particular

(i) by drafting and updating the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) and Procurement Plan;

(ii) by preparing of monthly and quarterly progress reports under the Project in accordance with the client’s requirements;

(iii) by monitoring and reporting on the conditions precedents to all disbursements and covenants effectiveness;

(iv) by reviewing and updating of the provided by the client generic Environmental and Social Management and Monitoring Plan (hereinafter referred to as ‘ESMMPz) according to the Bank requirements.

This contract is expected to be implemented from January 2022 to December 2025.

The consultant’s team shall include the following Key experts (KE):

KE1: Project manager/FIDIC contracts management expert;

KE2: Civil Engineer;

KE3: Civil Engineer with specialisation on technical supervision;

KE4: HV and LV primary equipment specialist;

KE5: Relay protection specialist;

KE6: Substation automation system (SAS) specialist.

The shortlisting criteria are:

1) firm’s previous project experience in construction (or reconstruction) supervision in the capacity of engineer under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract during the last 10 years; firm shall demonstrate that it successfully completed at least two contracts with a minimum value of EUR 2 Mio during the last 10 years; (30 points);

2) firm’s previous project experience in construction (or reconstruction) supervision of TSO projects for 330 kV and higher voltage level during the last 7 years (30 points);

3) firm’s previous experience in projects of similar nature (construction or reconstruction of substations 330 kV and higher voltage level) (30 points);

4) Previous relevant experience on the territory of ENTSO-E member countries (10 points).

Six firms with the highest ranking will be shortlisted.

Submission requirements:

(a) brief overview of the firm/consortium including company profile, organisation and staffing;

(b) details of firm’s/consortium’s similar experience and related assignments covering the last 7 years and strictly related to the envisaged services, including information on contract value, contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided (if different from duration), main activities, objectives (maximum 15 references);

(c) completed contact Sheet (please see Additional Information under section VI.3)

(d) EIB Covenant of Integrity duly completed and signed. Form is available under https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf. (please see important information under Section VI.3).

Additional information

Submission deadline not later than 4 May 2021 at 10.00 Kyiv time. The expression of interest shall not exceed 30 pages, one file (pdf or Word). File size shall not exceed 5 MB. Expression of interest shall be in English. Translation in Russian or Ukrainian is desirable.

Estimated date of publication of contract notice:01/12/2021

Section IV: Procedure

Description
Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
Section VI: Complementary information

Additional information:

Annex to the request for expression of interest:

Contact sheet:

— full legal name of lead organisation;

— trading name (if different from above);

— country of registration;

— address of registered office;

— postal address (if different from above);

— telephone number (including country code);

— main contact person for this assignment;

— main contact person’s position in the organisation;

— contact person’s e-mail address;

— alternative contact person;

— alternative e-mail;

— website of the organisation:

Important: it should be noted that, in the covenant of integrity, the tenderer is requested to self-declare all sanctions and/or exclusions (including any similar decisions having the effect of imposing conditions on the tenderer or its subsidiaries or to exclude the said tenderer or its subsidiaries, such as temporary suspension, conditional non-exclusion, etc.) imposed by the European institutions or any multilateral development banks (including the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank or Inter-American Development Bank), regardless of the date of issue and the expiration or not of such decisions and of the current status of any sanction and/or exclusion. In this regard, any omission or misrepresentation, made knowingly or recklessly, may be considered as fraud under the EIB Anti-Fraud Policy. Therefore, the client reserves the right to reject any offer presenting an inaccurate or incomplete Covenant of Integrity, and may cause the rejection of the offer for prohibited conduct.

Date of dispatch of this notice:23/03/2021