Rural Reconstruction Nepal
Strengthening Community Resilience to Climate Induced Disaster Risks
Central office: – Gairidhara,01-4004976/4004985
Field office-Biratnagar – 021-465646
RRN Website- rrn.org.np
Date of first Publication: 7 Aug 2024
Invitation For Sealed Bids
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) Kathmandu invites the sealed quotation from eligible bidders for the contract named below.
Contract No. | Contract Name | Address | Sealed bids Validity Period | Performance Security After BID is Awarded | Last Date of Submission |
RRN/SQ-02/RMW-Teli03/024/025 | Teli khola -3 River management works (Embankment Construction) | Urlabari Municipality -02 & 03 Morang District |
240 days |
10% of Bid Amount |
23 Aug 2024 |
Invitation for Sealed Bids
Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN)
Invitation for bidss for the [Name of Contract]
Contract Identification No: _ RRN/SQ-02/RMW-Teli03/024/025 Date of publication: ____________
1. RRN invites sealed bids for the River Training Works.
2. Eligible Bidders may obtain further information from RRN website
3. A complete set of financial proposal can be downloaded from RRN website
4. Sealed bids must be submitted to the any RRN offices mentioned below by hand on or before 5 pm 23 Aug 2024. Bids received after this deadline will be rejected.
- RRN Field Office Biratnagar, Vatta Chowk Biratnagar 021-465646
- RRN Head office Gairidhara Marg, 01-4004985
5. If the last date of submission falls on office holiday, then the next working day shall be considered as the last date.
6.Required Documentation
First Envelope a. Firm/Company Registration Certificate b. Business Registration Certificate (License) c. Tax Clearance Certificate evidence for the F/Y 2079/080, F/Y 2078/79, F/Y 2077/78 with at least turnover of 30 million (3 Crore) in an average d. PAN/VAT Registration Certificate e. Previous work experience in river training or similar works. f. Technical Proposal (max 10 page) g. CV of Sub Engineer to be in field (max 3 page) h. CV of Engineer to be in office (max 3 page) i. Letter of Bid (in letterhead of organization) Second Envelope a. Signed and Filled Finance Proposal Note: Both Envelope should be submitted separately |
Eligibility Criteria
1. Previous work experience in river training or similar works.(Government and other organizations)
2. Annual turnover of at least turnover of 30 million (3 Crore) in an average
3. All documents in 6 sub-heading i.e.(Required documents)
Instruction to Bidders
1. Scope of work | 1.1 The Employer stated in the BIDS for the construction of works as detailed in attached |
2. Eligible Bidder | 2.1 This Invitation for Bids is open to all registered contractors who meets the with eligibility criteria mentioned above. |
3. One bid per Bidder | 3.1 Each Bidder shall submit only one bid. A Bidder who submits more than one bids shall cause all the bids with the Bidder’s participation to be disqualified. |
4. Cost of Bidding | 4.1 The Bidder shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of his bid and the Employer shall in no case be liable for those costs. |
5. Site Visit | 5.1 The Bidder at his own cost, responsibility and risk may visit the site of the works and acquire all necessary information for preparing the bid and entering a contract for construction of the works |
6. Content of Bid Form |
6.1 The Bid Form comprise the documents listed below: Section I: Instructions to Bidders Section II: Bidding Form |
7. Clarification | 7.1 A prospective Bidder may obtain clarification on the Bid Form from the Employer on or before 5 days prior to the deadline for submission of Bid. Phone calls shall not be entertained. |
8. Language of Bid | 8.1 All documents relating to the bid shall be in English. |
9. Document of bid | 9.1 The bid by the Bidder should comprise of the documents listed above (VI). |
10. Bid Price | 10.1 The contract shall be for the whole works described in scope of work based on the priced Bill of Quantities submitted by the Bidder. The Bidder shall fill in rates and prices for all items of the works in Nepali Rupees. Items for which no rate or price is entered shall be deemed covered by the other rates and prices in the Bill of Quantities and shall not be paid separately by the Employer. All duties, taxes and other levies payable by the contractor under the contract shall be included in the rates, prices and total Bid Price submitted by the Bidder. |
11. Bid Validity | 11.1 Bids shall remain valid for the period of 240 days after the bid submission deadline date prescribed by the Employer. A bid valid for a shorter period shall be rejected by the Employer as nonresponsive. |
12. Format and Signing of Bids | 12.1 The bid shall be typed or written in indelible ink and shall be signed by an authorized person. Any entries or amendments including alterations, additions or corrections made shall be initiated by the same authorized person. |
13. Sealing and Marking of Bids |
13.1 Bidders must submit their bids by hard copy. Procedures for submission, sealing and marking are as follows: (a)Bidders submit bids by hard copy: (b) The Bidder shall submit his bid in sealed envelopes (with wax lahachhap लाहाछाप, four on corners and one on closure). (c)The envelope shall be addressed to the Employer specified in the Invitation for Bid and shall bear the name. |
14. Deadline for submission of bids | 14.1 Bids shall be delivered to the Employer at the address no later than the time and date specified in the bid document |
15. Late Bids | 15.1 Any bid received by the Employer after the deadline shall not be accepted and shall be returned unopened to the Bidder upon request. |
16. Modification and withdrawal of bids | 16.1 Bids once submitted shall not be withdrawn or modified |
17. Bid Opening | 17.1 The employer shall open the bids in the presence of the Procurement committee members of RRN. |
18. Process to be confidential | 18.1 Information relating to the examination, evaluation and comparison of bids and recommendations for the award of a contract shall not be disclosed to Bidders or any other persons not officially concerned with such process until the award to the successful Bidder has been announced. Any efforts by the Bidder to influence the Employer in the bid evaluation, bid comparison or contract award decisions may result in rejection of Bidder’s bid. |
19. Examination of bids |
19.1 Prior to the detailed evaluation of Bids, the Employer shall determine whether each bid (a) meets the eligibility criteria defined in above. (b) has been properly signed; and (c) is substantially responsive to the requirements of the Bidding documents. |
20. Evaluation and comparison of bids |
20.1 In evaluating the Bids, the Employer shall determine for each bid the evaluated Bid Price by adjusting any corrections for errors. Bids shall be checked by the Employer for any arithmetic errors. Errors shall be corrected by the Employer as follows: (a) only for unit price Contracts, if there is a discrepancy between the unit price and the total price that is obtained by multiplying the unit price and quantity, the unit price shall prevail and the total price shall be corrected, unless in the opinion of the Employer there is an obvious misplacement of the decimal point in the unit price, in which case the total price as quoted shall govern and the unit price shall be corrected; (b) if there is an error in a total corresponding to the addition or subtraction of subtotals, the subtotals shall prevail, and the total shall be corrected; and (c) If there is a discrepancy between the bid price in the Summary of Bill of Quantities and the bid amount in item of the Letter of Bid, the bid price in the Summary of Bill of Quantities will prevail and the bid amount in item of the Letter of Bid will be corrected. (d) if there is a discrepancy between words and figures, the amount in words shall prevail, unless the amount expressed in words is related to an arithmetic error, in which case the amount in figures shall prevail subject to (a), (b) and (c) above. 20.2 If the Bidder that submitted the lowest evaluated bid does not accept the correction of errors, its bid shall be disqualified. 20.3 The evaluation shall be done based on comparison of amount quoted under different individual working works (WH 1 Earthwork, WH2 Embankment protection work Gabion Type 1 and Type 2, WH3 Embankment protection work _retaining wall and WH 4 laying geo textile), along with total BOQ amount. |
21 Award of contract |
21.1 The Employer shall decide the award of the contract to the Bidder whose bid is within the approved BOQ and who has offered the lowest evaluated Bid Price within bid validity period provided that such Bidder has been determined to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Clauses 21.2 If the bid, which results in the lowest Evaluated Bid price, is unbalanced, or frontloaded in relation to the Employer’s BOQ of the items of Work to be performed under the contract, the Employer shall ask the bidder to give clarification with detailed rate analysis for any or all items of the Bill of Quantities. |
22. Employers right to accept/reject any Bids | 22.1 The Employer reserves the right to accept or reject any bid or to cancel the bidding process and reject all bids, at any time prior to the award of the contract, without assigning any reasons whatsoever and without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Bidder or Bidders. |
23. Notification of award and signing of agreement |
23.1 The Bidder whose bid is accepted, and all other participating bidders shall be notified of the award by the Employer. 23.2 The notification (hereafter called the “Letter of Acceptance”) to the successful Bidder shall state the sum that the Employer shall pay the Bidder in consideration of the execution and completion of the works as described by the contract. Within 7 days of receipt of the Letter of Acceptance, the successful Bidder shall deliver the Performance Security pursuant and sign the Agreement. 23.3 Inability of the Bidder to make an Agreement within the above stated period shall result in cancellation of the Contract Award and forfeiture of the Bidder’s Bid Security, upon which the Contract shall then be awarded to the next successive successful Bidder. |
24. Performance Security | 24.1. Within seven (7) days of the receipt of a Letter of Acceptance from the Employer, the successful Bidder shall furnish the performance security as under mentioned from A class Commercial Bank in accordance with the conditions. The performance security will be 10% of the total bid amount. |
25. Corrupt or Fraudulent Practices | 25.1 The Employer shall reject a bid for award if it determines that the Bidder recommended for award of contract has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices in competing for the contract in question |
26 Conduct of Bidders |
26.1 The Bidder shall be responsible for fulfilling his obligations as per the requirement of the Contract Agreement, Bidding documents as per RRN procurement principles. 26.2 The Bidder shall not carry out or cause to carry out the following acts with an intention to influence the implementation of the procurement process or the procurement agreement: a) give or propose improper inducement directly or indirectly, b) distortion or misrepresentation of facts c) engaging or being involved in corrupt or fraudulent practice. d) interference in participation of other prospective bidders. e) coercion or threatening directly or indirectly to cause harm to the person or the property of any person to be involved in the procurement proceedings, f) collusive practice among bidders before or after submission of bids for distribution of works among bidders or fixing artificial/uncompetitive bid price with an intention to deprive the Employer the benefit of open competitive bid price. g) contacting the Employer with an intention to influence the Employer with regards to the bid or interference of any kind in examination and evaluation of the bids during the period after opening of bids up to the notification of award of contract |
27 Subcontracting | 27.1 Any forms of subcontracting are not allowed by the contractor. |
28 Provision of inconsistency | 28.1 If any provision of this document is inconsistent, the provision of this documents shall be void to the extent of inconsistency. |
29. JV | 29.1 The joint venture agreement between the companies is ineligible to apply. |
30 Proposal Submission | 30.1 The bidder shall submit all the document mentioned in (VI) in one stage two envelopes as mentioned there. In case of only one envelope submission, it shall be considered invalid. (technical and financial in different envelopes) |
31 Evaluation Criteria | 31.1 After passing the eligibility of first proposal the second envelope shall be opened. Those who fail to qualify in first stage they are rejected from further round. |
32. Non-Local Materials | 32.1 RRN supplies the non-local materials such as cement, gabion boxes, helmet, gloves, nails, geo textile materials to the project site and it’s the responsibility of the Bidder to transfer to the local construction site |
Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) | |||||||
Strengthening Community Resilience to Climate-Induced Disaster Risks (SCRCDR) Project | |||||||
Name of Sub Project:- Teli-3 River Management Works | |||||||
Site location :-Teli-3 Khola, Urlabari Municipality-02 & 03,Morang | |||||||
Work Description | |||||||
S.No. | Types of Infrastructure | Chainage /Location | Unit | Total Quantity | Scope of Work | Remarks | |
A. | Construction Cost | ||||||
1.0 | Earthen Embankment Construction. | 2+025 to 3+421 (1396 mtr long)- River line | |||||
1.1 | Earthwork excavation ( v-shaped cutting) in river bed material for foundation with site clearence (bamboo, trees etc) digging & 15m disposal work all complete as per design, drawing, specification and site engineer instruction | Cum | 32,875.00 | Both side(As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction) | All the work mentioned in this title 1.1 has to be done by the contractor company. | ||
1.2 | Earth dam (embankment) construction including soil transportation, water spreading, leveling top surface (2 degree inclined to outside), compaction( top of dam & inner inclined face of dam), preparation required slope and dressing of soil all complete as per design, drawing, specification and site engineer instruction. | Cum | 46,641.72 | Both side dam construction (As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction) | All the work mentioned in this title 1.2has to be done by the contractor company. | ||
2.0 | Embankment Protection works _Gabion- Type-1 | 204m | as per drawing | ||||
3.0 | Embankment Protection works _Gabion- Type-2 | 1401m | as per drawing | ||||
2& 3.1 | Boulder filling in gabion boxes streaching, closing and tying and assembling of wires creats and placing with good finishing level all complete work as approved by Site engineer. | cum | 6,732.00 | As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction | As per design and estimate, the required gabion boxes will be provided at the site by RRN office. All other work under this Title 2&3.1 has to be done by contractor company. | ||
4.0 | Drainage System | chainage /location- in 2+025 to 3+421m | Total 8 nos at river stream | ||||
4.1 | Providing and laying stone soling in floor & foundation in line & level including filling the joint with sand as per specification & site engineer instruction | cum | 13.76 | As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction | All the work mentioned in this title 4.1 has to be done by the contractor company. | ||
4.2 | Providing and laying plain cement concrete 1:2:4 using ordinary portland cement, sand and coarse aggregates of 40 mm and down size in foundation bed, flooring and walls including setting out, Manual Mix, curing and finishing etc. to approved level, lines and dimension all complete as per specification, drawing and instruction of Site Engineer. | Cum | 25.99 | As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction | As per design and estimate, the required cement bags will be provided at the site by RRN office. All other work under this Title 4.2 has to be done by contractor company. | ||
4.3 | Providing and laying Stone Masonry in cement sand mortar (1:6) in SUB-STRUCTURE AND ABOVE GROUND with outer side fair finished, in perfect line and level including different sizes of boulder transporation, cost of scaffolding, washing stone in water, packing the joints, raking the joints and curing the work at least 7 days in all types and thickness of wall as per specification, drawing and instruction of Engineer. | Cum | 9.04 | As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction | As per design and estimate, the required cement bags & plywood will be provided at the site by RRN office. All other work under this Title 4.3 has to be done by contractor company. | ||
4.4 | Laying and bending only of Fe 415/500 Tor TMT bar for rcc work all complete as per specification and drawing.(Rate without TMT Bar) | Kg | 1,648.00 | As per design drawing, specification & Site Engineer Instruction | As per design and estimate, the required cement bags will be provided at the site by RRN office. All other work under this Title 4.4 has to be done by contractor company. | ||
Providing, preparing and installing formwork (using local wood) and removing after completion the curing period. | Sqm | 70.80 | All work | ||||
5.0 | Laying geotextile before laying of gabion creats as approved by Site engineer. | Sqm | 17,457.00 | In all gabion and S/M works | As per design and estimate, the required area of geotextile will be provided at the site by RRN office. All other work under this Title 5.0 has to be done by contractor company. |