Improvement Works of Mashi Irrigation Scheme Located at Mashi Village, Dehdadi District of Balkh Province.

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Employer: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Live Stock (MAIL)

Project: Emergency Agriculture & Food Supply (EATS) Project

Contract title: Improvement Works of Mashi Irrigation Scheme Located at Mashi Village, Dehdadi District of Balkh Province.

Country: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Loan No. /Credit No./Grant No.: TFOB3535/IDA Grant No. D7120/AF

RFB No: AF/MAIL/EATS- 193059/M054-CW-RFB

This Notification of Intention to Award (Notification) notifies you of our decision to award the above contract. The transmission of this Notification begins the Standstill Period. During the Standstill Period you may:

  1. Request a debriefing in relation to the evaluation of your Bid, and/or
  2. Submit a Procurement-related Complaint in relation to the decision to award the contract.
  1. The successful Bidder

Name:

New United Construction Company

Address:

House # 1, Floor # 4, Fayez Ahmad Haidari Plaza, Kama’s Old Station District #1,Jalalabad City ,Nangarhar,Afghanistan

Contract price:

25,690,793.60Afghanis

  1. Other Bidders:

Name of Bidder

Bid price

Evaluated Bid price (if applicable)

Nawand Noor Construction Company (JV) with Estihkam Charbolak Construction Company

21,641,261.00

20,775,610.56

Nazem Basit construction & Road Building Company (JV)  With  Bradaran Seyar  Construction Company

21,678,652.00

21,319,292.44

Yusuf Zia Construction and Road Building Company

25,850,801.79

26,132,194.10

Ascent Afg Group of Co construction & Engineering and Parwiz Ghafari construction

26,294,149.00

26,294,149.00

Itifaq Zadran Construction ,Road Building & production of construction Material Co

27,430,000.00

26,607,100.00

Yousra Road Building and Construction,Co

26,909,657.96

26,945,377.96

Bakhtar Pairoz construction Company

26,990,714.20

26,990,714.20

New Ahmadi construction & Road Building Company JV With Build star Construction survey & Design Company

27,104,858.00

27,104,858.20

Naeemi Safi Construction & Construction Material Company

27,436,031.75

27,426,031.75

Mah-e-May Construction Co

28,906,329.50

28,906,329.50

Aman Zabi construction Co

29,642,252.30

29,642,252.30

Kawosh Engineering Services Co

29,841,623.50

29,841,623.50

National Gold Construction

32,971,451.50

32,971,451.50

Aria Ghorband Construction Road Building & Product Construction Material Company

36,499,003.50

36,499,003.50

  1. Reason/s why your Bids was unsuccessful

The main reason for the non-responsive bidders are:

A) Nawand Noor Construction Company and Estehkam Charbolak Construction Company as (JV) the second party of JV (Estehkam Charbolak Construction Company) does not provided any documents for the Liquid Asset.

Hence, in reference to the ITB 5.5 (e) and ITB 5.6 clauses of bidding documents the bidder does not meet the requirement of Liquid Asset criteria.

  B) Nazem Basit Construction & Road Building Company and Baradaran Seyar Construction Company as (JV) does not provided any documents for the Liquid Asset.

Hence, in reference to the ITB 5.5 (e) and ITB 5.6 clauses of bidding documents the bidder does not meet the requirement of Liquid Asset criteria.

  1. How to request a debriefing?

DEADLINE: The deadline to request a debriefing expires at midnight on 14-April-2021 at 12:00 AM local time.

You may request a debriefing in relation to the results of the evaluation of your Bid. If you decide to request a debriefing your written request must be made within three (3) Business Days of receipt of this Notification of Intention to Award.

Provide the contract name, reference number, name of the Bidder, contact details; and address the request for debriefing as follows:

Attention: [Mohammadullah Sahil]

Title/position: [Procurement Director]

Agency: [Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Live Stock]

Email address: mohammadullah.sahil@mail.gov.af

If your request for a debriefing is received within the 3 Business Days deadline, we will provide the debriefing within five (5) Business Days of receipt of your request. If we are unable to provide the debriefing within this period, the Standstill Period shall be extended by five (5) Business Days after the date that the debriefing is provided. If this happens, we will notify you and confirm the date that the extended Standstill Period will end.

The debriefing may be in writing, by phone, video conference call or in person. We shall promptly advise you in writing how the debriefing will take place and confirm the date and time.

If the deadline to request a debriefing has expired, you may still request a debriefing. In this case, we will provide the debriefing as soon as practicable, andnormally no later than fifteen (15) Business Days from the date of publication of the Contract Award Notice.

  1. How to make a complaint?

Period:  Procurement-related Complaint challenging the decision to award shall be submitted by midnight, [14-April-2021] (12:00 AM).

Provide the contract name, reference number, name of the Bidder, contact details; and address the Procurement-related Complaint as follows:

Attention: [Mohammadullah Sahil]

Title/position: [Procurement Director]

Agency: [Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Live Stock]

Email address: [mohammadullah.sahil@mail.gov.af]

At this point in the procurement process, you may submit a Procurement-related Complaint challenging the decision to award the contract. You do not need to have requested, or received, a debriefing before making this complaint. Your complaint must be submitted within the Standstill Period and received by us before the Standstill Period ends.

Further information:

For more information see the Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (Procurement Regulations)[https://policies.worldbank.org/sites/ppf3/PPFDocuments/Forms/DispPage.aspx?docid=4005] (Annex III). You should read these provisions before preparing and submitting your complaint. In addition, the World Bank’s Guidance “How to make a Procurement-related Complaint” [http://www.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/products-and-services/brief/procurement-new-framework#framework] provides a useful explanation of the process, as well as a sample letter of complaint.

In summary, there are four essential requirements:

You must be an ‘interested party’. In this case, that means a Bidder who submitted a Bid in this bidding process and is the recipient of a Notification of Intention to Award.

The complaint can only challenge the decision to award the contract.

You must submit the complaint within the period stated above.

You must include, in your complaint, all the information required by the Procurement Regulations (as described in Annex III).

  1. Standstill Period

DEADLINE: The Standstill Period is due to end at midnight on 14-April-2021 at 12:00AM (local time).

The Standstill Period lasts ten (10) Business Days after the date of transmission of this Notification of Intention to Award.

The Standstill Period may be extended as stated in Section 4 above.

If you have any questions regarding this Notification, please do not hesitate to contact us.

On behalf of the Employer:

Signature: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­       _____________________________________________

Name:               Mohammadullah Sahil

Title/position:  Procurement Director

Telephone:       +93 (020) 2922244

Email:              mohammadullah.sahil@mail.gov.af