Surat Metro Update: GMRC invites tender for design and manufacturing of Platform Screen Doors System for Metro Rail Project Phase-I

The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Limited has invited sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the Design, Manufacture, Supply, Installation, Integration, Testing and Commissioning of Platform Screen Doors System for Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-I 

    • Contract No.: GMRC/S&T/PSD-02
    • Name of Work: Design, Manufacture, Supply, Installation, Integration, Testing and Commissioning of Platform Screen Doors System for Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-I
    • Date of Invitation: 18-May-2022
    • Estimated Cost: INR 25,000/-

About the Project:

  • The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Limited has applied for financing from KfW toward the cost of the Surat Metro Rail Phase-I Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract for Design, Manufacture, Supply, Installation, Integration, Testing and Commissioning of Platform Screen Doors System for Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-I for which this Invitation for Bids is issued.
  • Bidding will be conducted by means of the International Competitive Bidding  procedure with qualification as specified in the KfW Guidelines for the Procurement of Consulting Services, Works, Goods, Plant and Non-Consulting Services in Financial Cooperation with Partner Countries (“KfW Procurement Guidelines”). 
  • KfW requires that Bidders and Contractors, as well as Borrowers, under Contracts funded with KfW Loan observe the highest standard of ethics during the procurement and execution of such Contracts. In pursuance of this policy, KfW:
    • Will reject a proposal for award if it determines that the Bidder recommended for award has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices in competing for the Contract in question.
    • Will recognize a Contractor as ineligible, for a period determined by KfW, to be awarded a Contract funded with KfW Loan if it at any times determines that the Contractor has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent practices in competing for, or in executing, another contract funded by KfW.

Note:

  • Ten (10) years’/’Last ten (10) years’ means the period of last ten (10) years counted from the twenty-eight days prior to ‘date for bid submission’ (refer Form FB-1). ‘Five (5) years’/’Last five years’ means the period of last five (5) years counted from the twentyeight days prior to ‘date for bid submission’. ‘Three (3) years’/’Last three years’ means the period of last three (3) years counted from the twenty-eight days prior to ‘date for bid submission’. e.g: Say, if date for bid submission is 15.01.2020, then ‘twenty eight days prior to date for bid submission’ will be 18.12.2019 and last ten(10) years would mean from 19.12.2009 to 18.12.2019 and last five(5) years would mean from 19.12.2014 to 18.12.2019 and last three(3) years would mean from 19.12.2016 to 18.12.2019. In case of postponement(s) in ‘date for bid submission’, if any, last ten (10) years would mean from 19.12.2009 to twenty-eight days prior to postponed ‘date for bid submission’ and last five (5) years would mean from 19.12.2014 to twenty-eight days prior to postponed ‘date for bid submission’ and last three (3) years would mean from 19.12.2016 to twentyeight days prior to postponed ‘date for bid submission’.
  • The ‘Bidder’ would include Joint Venture/ Consortium submitting the bid as well as members of such Joint Venture/ Consortium.
  • For a consortium/JV the credentials (Technical as well as Financial) of all the member(s) having a minimum 26% participation each in JV / consortium will be required to be submitted by the bidder and shall be considered for evaluation. In case of Net Worth, Liquidity & Turnover, the financial credentials will be considered based on the summation of weighted credential of individual members in proportionate to their share in JV/Consortium. In case of consortiums/JV between companies with subsidiaries, the consolidated numbers of the parent company will only be considered. However, in case of technical eligibility, the credentials will be based on the algebraic aggregated credentials of each member. The credential (Technical as well as Financial) of a member who has a less than 26% participation in JV/Consortium shall not be considered.
  • For the participation by Subsidiary company/Parent company with credentials of other Company:
    • Bidder in the capacity of a Subsidiary as a single entity is not permitted to use the credential of its Parent Company and/or its sister Subsidiary Company/Companies unless the Bidder participates in bid as JV/Consortium with its Parent Company and/or its sister Subsidiary Company/Companies as a member(s) in JV with minimum 26% participation each for such member(s). Section III – Qualification and Evaluation Criteria QEC- 30 GMRC/S&T/PSD-02 GMRC Ltd.
    • Also Bidder in the capacity of a Parent Company as a single entity is not permitted to use the credential of its Subsidiary Company / Companies unless the Bidder participates in bid as JV/Consortium with its Subsidiary Company / Companies as a member(s) in JV/Consortium with minimum 26% participation each for such member(s).
  • However, in case of consortium/JV between companies and their subsidiaries where either the parent or the subsidiary or both is/are (an) Indian company/ companies registered in India, parent company shall be eligible to bid on the basis of credentials of their owned subsidiaries. Subsidiaries shall be eligible to bid on the basis of credentials of their parent company. Here it will be mandatory that the bidders must enter into a consortium/JV agreement with a token participation of such parent/ subsidiary whose credentials are being sought to be used. This consortium/JV agreement should clearly stipulate that the individual companies i.e. the parent and the JV shall be jointly and severally responsible and liable for the timely execution of the contract and failure to do so will make all of them liable to the penal conditions of the contract. In such case there will be no requirement of the minimum threshold of 26% participation by each member of the consortium/JV.
  • The bidder as stipulated at clause 4.1 above, should have performed the PSD/PSG system as well as interface with other systems like signalling, telecom, Rolling stock.
  • Refer ITB 4.9 of Bid Data Sheet regarding debarment of the Bidder.
  • If a subcontractor´s qualification has been taking into account for the qualification of an applicant this subcontractor shall only participate in the respective proposal. If a subcontractor submits an offer in its own name, all offers concerned shall be rejected.

Source: GMRC -Tender