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Contract Award Information - Road Safety Audit and Technology Consultants

Loan No. 3730- KGZ (SF)/ Grant No. 0621- KGZ: Kyrgyz Republic:

CAREC Corridors 1 and 3 Connector Road Project – Additional financing.
Selection of Road Safety Audit and Technology Consultants

 

CONTRACT AWARD INFORMATION

 

General information

  • Shortlisted firms:
  1. NTU International A/S (Denmark) with IMC Worldwide Ltd.(United Kingdom) as JV Partner;
  2. Renardet S.A. (Swizerland) and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant;
  3. FRED Engineering Srl (Italy) with IRD Engineering S.R.L. (Italy) as JV Partner, and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant;
  4. Kocks Consult Gmbh (Germany);
  5. MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria);
  6. Swedish National Road Consulting AB (Sweden) with Japan Overseas Consultants Co., Ltd. (Japan) as JV Partner, and Central Asian Consulting Center (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant.
  • Date of RFP issuance:  July 26, 2022.
  • Initial deadline for submission of proposals: August 30, 2022.
  • Extension term of the deadline for submission of proposals: 14 days.
  • Extended deadline for submission of proposals: September 13, 2022.
  • Date of approval of the technical evaluation: December 2, 2022.
  • Opening of financial proposals: December 9, 2022.
  • An extension of the validity period of proposals was requested for two months i.e. from January 11, 2023 to March 11, 2023 (MOTC’s letter dated December 19, 2022), ADB’s no objection for the extension was received on December 16, 2022.

CAREC Corridors 1 and 3 Connector Road Project – Additional Financing aims to help the Kyrgyz Republic in the implementation of the national road safety strategy and offers opportunities to demonstrate safety technologies for potential future use on the state road network. The CAREC Corridors 1 and 3 Connector Road Project – Additional Financing includes a road safety component. This component is envisaged to be implemented through three sub-outputs: (i) sub-output 1: development of a national road safety strategy, (ii) sub-output 2: road safety auditing introduced into the business process of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC), and (iii) sub-output 3: the latest technology for safer transport services applied along the project roads. 

The following 20 consulting firms submitted Expressions of Interest by the deadline:

No.

Firm name

  1.  

Donghae Engineering & Consultants Co., Ltd. (Korea, Republic of)

  1.  

Joint venture between Holtec Consulting Private Limited (India) and Dhruv Consultancy Services Limited (India)

  1.  

Osmani & Company (Pvt.) Limited (Pakistan) in association with E.Gen Consultants Ltd. (Bangladesh) and KyrgyzGeoTech LLC (Kyrgyz Republic)

  1.  

Pricewaterhousecoopers Pvt. Ltd. (India) in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax and Advisory, LLP (Kazakhstan)

  1.  

VisionRI Connexion Services Private Limited (India) in association with M A SOLUTIONS PVT LTD (India)

  1.  

Joint venture between ALTINOK CONSULTING ENGINEERING INC. (Turkey) and M50 Consulting Group LLP (Kazakhstan)

  1.  

Joint venture between BOTEK Bosphorus Technical Consulting Corp. (Turkey) and ARPA Consulting (Azerbaijan)

  1.  

CONTRANS AB (Sweden)

  1.  

EBP Schweiz AG (Switzerland)

  1.  

Joint venture between Egis International (France) and Egis Villes & Transports (France)

  1.  

Joint venture between FRED Engineering Srl (Italy) and IRD Engineering S.R.L. (Italy) in association with RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic)

  1.  

Kocks Consult Gmbh (Germany)

  1.  

MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria)

  1.  

Joint venture between NTU International A/S (Denmark) and IMC Worldwide Ltd. (United Kingdom)

  1.  

Renardet S.A. (Switzerland) in association with RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic)

  1.  

Joint venture between Roughton International Ltd (United Kingdom) and Consulting Engineers Group Ltd (India)

  1.  

Joint venture between SGAPI S.R.L. (Italy) and Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers and Consultants Private Limited (India)

  1.  

Joint venture between Swedish National Road Consulting AB (Sweden) and Japan Overseas Consultants Co., Ltd. (Japan) in association with Central Asian Consulting Center (Kyrgyz Republic)

  1.  

TUMAS Turkish Engineering, Consulting and Contracting Co. (Turkey)

  1.  

Temelsu International Engineering Services Inc. (Turkey)

 

Technical and financial proposals were received from the following firms:

 

  1. NTU International A/S (Denmark) with IMC Worldwide Ltd. (United Kingdom) as JV Partner;
  2. JV MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria) Partner of NAST Consultants (Austria) and sub-consultants of TBSC Consulting (Georgia) and United Group (Kyrgyz Republic)
  3. FRED Engineering Srl (Italy) with IRD Engineering S.R.L. (Italy) as JV Partner, and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant;
  4. Renardet S.A. (Swizerland) and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant;
  5. Kocks Consult Gmbh (Germany);
  6. Swedish National Road Consulting AB (Sweden) with Japan Overseas Consultants Co., Ltd. (Japan) as JV Partner, and Central Asian Consulting Center (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant.

 

Results of the technical evaluation:

No.

Firm name

Technical score

  1.  

NTU International A/S (Denmark) with IMC Worldwide Ltd.(United Kingdom) as JV Partner;

760,00

  1.  

JV MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria) Partner of NAST Consultants (Austria) and sub-consultants of TBSC Consulting (Georgia) and United Group (Kyrgyz Republic);

863,75

  1.  

FRED Engineering Srl (Italy) with IRD Engineering S.R.L. (Italy) as JV Partner, and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant;

785,38

  1.  

Renardet S.A. (Swizerland) and RAM Engineering Associates LLC (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant

693,50

  1.  

Kocks Consult Gmbh (Germany)

753,25

  1.  

Swedish National Road Consulting AB (Sweden) with Japan Overseas Consultants Co., Ltd. (Japan) as JV Partner, and Central Asian Consulting Center (Kyrgyz Republic) as Sub-Consultant.

829,50

 

As a result of the evaluation, the ranking was as follows:

Consulting Entity

Technical Evaluation

Financial Evaluation

Combined Score

Final Ranking

Technical Score

Technical Points

Rank

Evaluated Total Price (ETP)

Financial Score

Financial Points

Rank

   

A

B

 

C

D

E

 

F = B + E

NTU International A/S, with IMC Worldwide Ltd. as JV Partner

760,00

684,00

4

1 590 605,00

865,39

86,54

3

770,54

5

FRED Engineering Srl with IRD Engineering S.R.L. as JV Partner, and RAM Engineering Associates LLC as Sub-Consultant

785,38

706,84

3

1 521 600,00

904,64

90,46

2

797,31

3

Kocks Consult Gmbh

753,25

677,93

5

1 376 500,00

1 000,00

100,00

1

 777,93

4

JV MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria) Partner of NAST Consultants (Austria) and sub-consultants of TBSC Consulting (Georgia) and United Group (Kyrgyz Republic)

863,75

777,38

1

1 657 433,20

830,50

83,05

5

860,43

1

Swedish National Road Consulting AB, with Japan Overseas Consultants Co., Ltd. as JV Partner, and Central Asian Consulting Center as Sub-Consultant

829,50

746,55

2

1 646 549,00

835,99

83,60

4

 830,15

2

 

  1. Name of the selected consultant: JV MC Mobility Consultants GmbH (Austria) Partner of NAST Consultants (Austria) and sub-consultants of TBSC Consulting (Georgia) and United Group (Kyrgyz Republic)
  2. Contract value: USD 1,889,970.00 (including 10% tax on non-resident income).
  3. Duration of the contract: 30 months.
  4. Subject of the contract: Consulting services on Road Safety Audit and Technology