Invitation for Bids

Date: 8 November 2018 Loan No. 3696-IND: Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project and Title: WBDWSIP/DWW/ICB/EM/02/2018-19 Construction of Intermediate Pumping Station, Secondary Transmission Contract No. and mains, overhead tanks, water distribution network and metering works Title: including 2 years Operation and Maintenance in -I and Nandigram-II block in East Medinipur Deadline for Submission of Extended to 12 January 2019, 18:00 hours (IST) Bids (e-Tender):

1. has applied for financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) toward the cost of West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project (WBDWSIP). Part of this financing will be used for payments under the contract named above. Bidding is open to Bidders from eligible source countries of ADB.

2. The West Bengal Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) (“The Employer”) represented by the Project Director, West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project. (WBDWSIP), and on his behalf Superintending Engineer, PIU East Medinipur, WBDWSIP, PHE Dte., invites eligible Bidders to submit online bids in the e-Tendering platform of the State Government of West Bengal (URL: https://wbtenders.gov.in) for the “Construction of Intermediate Pumping Station, Secondary Transmission mains, overhead tanks, water distribution network and metering works including 2 years Operation and Maintenance in Nandigram-I and Nandigram-II block in East Medinipur” (The Works). The principal quantities involved, but not limited to, are:

Sl. Quantity Description of Items Unit No (Approx.) Construction of RCC overhead reservoir including foundation 1 design, based on safe bearing capacity with a staging height of Nos 29 20m all complete of assorted size from 250 K1 to 1500 K1

Supplying and laying Ductile Iron Pipes (Class K9) including all 2 specials and fittings all complete (Pipe Diameters from 150mm to Km 101 600mm) Design of DMA based WS Distribution Network including: Supplying and laying of DI (Class K7) and HDPE pipes (Grade 3 Km 1750 PE 100 and PN-10) including all specials and fittings all complete (Pipe Diameters from 63mm to 200mm)

Sl. Quantity Description of Items Unit No (Approx.) Supplying and fixing of Resilient seated soft sealing Ductile Iron, 4 Nos 1860 sluice valves (5000 to 400mm)

Providing and fixing property service connection with service 5 Nos 90,000 saddle (20mm, 25mm) Providing and laying of MDPE (Grade PE-80) service connection 6 Km 900 (20mm, 25 mm) Providing, installing and giving satisfactory field testing of 7 Nos 90,000 Domestic water meter (15mm, 20mm) Operation and Maintenance Services of the Intermediate Booster 8 Months 24 PS, transmission main, OHRs and WS Distribution Networks

3. International Competitive Bidding will be conducted in accordance with ADB’s Single- Stage: Two-Envelope bidding procedure and is open to all bidders from eligible countries as described in the Bidding Document.

4. Bidders are welcome to download for free the tender documents from https://wbtenders.gov.in. To obtain further information, bidders may contact:

Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Purba Medinipur West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project PHE Complex (2nd Floor), Parbatipur , Purba Medinipur E-mail id: [email protected] and [email protected]

5. For bid submission:

a) Bidders should enroll online in http://wbtenders.gov.in. b) Bidders should obtain a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) as prescribed in the e- Tendering portal to complete online enrolment and bid submission. The e-Tendering telephonic help desk may be contacted for assistance in this regard: (+91) 1800 3070 2232, (+91) 7878007972 and (+91) 7878007973. c) Cost of non-refundable tender fee is INR 10,000.00 / USD 150 including GST, in the form of Certified Cheque (CC) or Demand Draft (DD) favoring “Project Management Unit, WBDWSIP PHED” payable at Kolkata. d) Technical bid should be accompanied with bid security as indicated in the bid document e) Bidders should upload scanned copy of all required documents, including CC/DD and bid security on e-procurement website. Original copies of the CC/DD, bid security, and other documents as required in the bid document in physical form should reach the office of the:

Project Management Unit, WBDWSIP, 1st Floor, Utility Building, Tank No.: 3, Action Area-IA, New Town, Kolkata – 700156

before the date and time specified in table below. Bids will be opened as specified in the table below. f) Bidders shall take due care to ensure that the documents uploaded by them in e- procurements system are virus free.

IMPORTANT DATES: Sl.No. Events Date & Time Location Start Date of From 31 October 1 downloading of 2018 Bid Document Date & time for From 15:00 hours start of online 2 on 1 November https://wbtenders.gov.in submission of 2018 Bids Deadline for Up to 18:00 hours 3 online submission on 12 January 2019 of Bids Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Purba Medinipur, WBDWSIP, At 10:30 hours on 4 Site Visit PHE Complex (2nd 14 November 2018 Floor), Parbatipur Tamluk, Purba Medinipur Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Purba Medinipur, WBDWSIP, At 12:00 hours on 5 Pre-bid Meeting PHE Complex (2nd 15 November 2018 Floor), Parbatipur Tamluk, Purba Medinipur Deadline for submission of the original Project Management documents as Unit, 1st Floor, Utility required in the At 14:30 hours on Building, Tank No.-3 6 sub-clause ITB 11 15 January 2019 Action Area-IA, of Section 2: Bid New Town, Kolkata Data 700156 Sheet of Bid Document

Sl.No. Events Date & Time Location

Date of opening of At 15:00 hours on Conference room, 7 Technical bids 15 January 2019 Project Management Unit, 1st Floor, Utility Building, Tank No.-3 Will be intimated to Action Area-IA, Date of opening of all technically 8 New Town, Kolkata Price bids responsive bidders 700156 later.

6. Any addendum, clarification to the bidder’s queries and corrigendum etc. will be published on e-procurement website https://wbtenders.gov.in and will not be published in Newspapers. In case there is a holiday on the day of opening of bid, activities assigned on that date shall be carried out on the next working day.

7. All the prospective bidders are encouraged to participate in Pre-bid meeting and it is advised that the work sites are visited and bid documents be studied thoroughly.