GOVERNMENT OF JHARKHAND
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER
WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, RANCHI-834004
NOTICE INVITING TENDER
(TWO ENVELOPE SYSTEM)
N.I.T.  No. 08/2007-08

1. Name of Work

: Construction of KANTI RESERVOIR SCHEME AT KARRA BLOCK IN KHUNTI DISTRICT ON TURN KEY BASIS.

2. Indicative Estimated cost

: Rs. 5894.00 Lacs.

3. Office inviting Tender / Bid.

: The Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Ranchi, H.E.C. Higher Secondary School, Sector-III, Dhurwa, Ranchi-834004.

4.Period of sale of Tender / Bid documents

: From 19-03-2008 to 28-03-2008

5. Date of PRE BID Conference

: In the office of the Chief Engineer, Water Resources
Department, Ranchi. On 02-04-08 at 11:30 AM

6. Date and Time of Receipt of Bids

: On 09-04-08 Up to 3:00 PM

7. Time and Date of Opening Technical   Bid

: On 09-04-08 at 3:30 PM.

8 Place for sale of Tender/Bid Document-    

: (A) Chief Engineer Office, Water Resources Department, Ranchi.
(B) Superintending Engineer, Design, Planning and Monitoring Circle, Ranchi.
(C) Superintending Engineer – Water Ways Circle, Ranchi Dist. Ranchi.

9. Place for receipt and opening of Tender/Bid– Chief Engineer Office, Water Resources Department, Ranchi.

10. (i) Earnest money of Rs. 117.88 lacs (Rupees One hundred Seventeen lacs and Eighty Eight thousand only) be attached in the form of Six year N.S.C. (8^th issue) of 3/5 years Post Office Time Deposit issued from the Post Office of Jharkhand or Bank Guarantee of any Schedule Bank as envisaged in finanace department resolution no. 4-9/2001(part-I) 295 dt. 24-01-02 pledged to the Executive Engineer, Water Ways Division, Ranchi along with the "Technical Bid Envelope" only.
(ii) Earnest money will be 2% of the estimate cost in the shape as mentioned in Para 10(i). Contractor will have to deposit 5% of the total allotted amount of work as Security Deposit. Besides Earnest Money, balance 3% amount (Excluding E.M.) will have to be deposited at the time of agreement.

11. Tenderer or his authorized representative may choose to be present at the time of Pre bid Conference/Opening of Technical Bid/Financial Bid.

12. Contractor who is not registered in W.R.D. Jharkhand but registered elsewhere and possesses experience of such work and fulfills the criteria for qualifying may also participate in tender with permission from Engineer-in-Chief/Secretary of the Department. He shall however be required to be registered in the Department within two months from the date of award of work. At the time of buying the tender/bid documents the attested photocopy of present registration of required category, Income Tax clearance as per rule, Sales Tax clearance certificate, Labour licence and character certificate must be attached with the application for issuing of Tender document.

13. The price of tender document is Rs. 10,000.00 (Rupees Ten thousand) only which is non refundable. The same may be in form of bank draft in favour of Executive Engineer, Water Ways Division, Ranchi. Payable at S.B.I., Doranda, Ranchi.

14. The work is to be accomplished on "Turn-Key" basis. The project detail, drawings etc. available in the department may be seen in the office of the undersigned on any working day for reference only. The contractor, however is required to make his own design and drawings based on his own survey investigation etc. at site where ever necessary, which have to be approved by the competent authority in the department.

15. Work Details are as follows :-
(a)        Construction of an earthen dam including coffer Dam of approximate length of 1737.80M at crest level of 604.95M
(b)        Construction of Dam Outlet with gate in right side of the river including manufacturing, fabrication erection and installation with all accessories with hoisting arrangement for one outlet gate, including operation chamber etc. with all complete job.
(c)        Construction of one Spillway on left side including Spill channel and approach channel complete.
(d)        Construction of 1 No. of main canal in right side of the river for irrigating the incepted command.
(e)      Construction of cross drainage works, bridges, falls, regulators, escape, outlets gates etc. as per requirement of site in main canal and its distribution system including survey, collection of design data, designing drawing as required.
(f)          Construction of a network of branch canals, distributaries, sub distributaries, Village channels with control head regulators for facilitating the efficient irrigation in total command area of the project including survey and investigation, planning, etc. as required.
(g)  Preparing Sarja Sheet combined village map on tracing cloth for each canal system separately, command survey of whole command area and plotting the same on combined village map, showing contours, marking ridges and valleys distinctly, marking alignments, chak boundaries, position of outlets and other structures on village map, preparing chak statement, outlet register as per requirement and fixing command under assured irrigation as well as probable irrigation.

16.  Time of completion -30 Months (including rainy season) from the date of agreement.
17. Eligibility criteria :-
(i)        The tenderer must have achieved financial turnover of civil engineering construction work of not less than Rs. 75.00 Crores (Rupees Seventy Five Crores) over the past five years and not less than Rs. 20.00 Crores (Rupees Twenty Crores) in any one of the last five years.
(ii)         The tenderer has satisfactorily executed similar work e.g. Dam/Spillway/Canals and Hydraulic structures etc. of value not less then Rs. 15.00 Crores (Rupees Fifteen Crores) in any one year over past five years.
(iii)        The tenderer must have executed at least one civil engineering work of not less than Rs. 25.00 Crores (Rupees Twenty Five Crores) in any one of the last five years.

18. Before submitting the tender, the tenderers are advised to visit the site (at their own cost) to get them self apprised of the details and situation of the work site.
19. Tender is based on "two Envelop Systems" The first envelop shall be marked as "Technical Bid" and the second one as "Financial Bid", "Financial Bid" of only technically qualified tenderers shall be opened. Joint ventures shall not be permitted to participate in the Bid/Tender. These two sealed envelops will be kept in a bigger envelope superscribing Name of the work, Name & Address of the tenderer.
20. The Department reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid/tender without assigning any reason whatsoever.
21. The details of Terms and Conditions of the tender may be seen in Tender/Bid Documents.
22. The Department will not normally supply/provide any construction equipment/tools and plants and construction materials needed for the execution of the above works but materials previously available in the stock for the same project like steel and boulders will be supplied as per the present rate with storage charges and recovery will be made accordingly. Boulders which will be recovered out of excavation during construction will be compulsorily utilised by the contractor for construction work with suitable recovery as per departmental norms and as per circle specification.
23. Work has to be executed on the basis of guidelines and as per specification and norms of Water Resources Department, relevant I.S. code: IRC publication. CWC publications and circulars issued by the Government from time to time.
24. The Contractor is required to establish on its own all the requisite facilities such as accommodation, water supply, sanitation etc. for their work men and labours and also a fully equipped and functional Quality Control Laboratory at work site before Starting the execution of the work.
25. The estimated cost of the project mentioned in para 2 above is purely indicative only and should not be taken as granted as a guideline for design and execution.  Tenderers are advised to go through the tender document carefully and attach the requisite amount of earnest money as mentioned therein. Before agreement successful bidder will have to deposit 5% of allotted amount of work as security deposit inclusive of E.M.
26.The tenderer shall have to estimate the quantum of work and its financial value based on his own survey and estimate on the basis of scope of work mentioned in the tender document.
27.The tenderer shall have to plan his construction work program in line with the departmental program for transfer of land through land acquisition or inter departmental land transfer.
28. In case, the site of work either in part or in full is not provided to the contractor, either due to non-completion of land-acquisition processes or due to no-clearance of scheme by the forest department or on any account what so ever no claim on this account shall be payable to the contractor. However on account of this request of the contractor, suitable time-extension shall be granted for completion of the work for which no claim will be entertained.
29. The Tenderer may require to approach Railway Authorities for approval/construction of railway structure at canal crossings. The responsibilities to get the design/drawing approved by the authority of Railways will solely lie upon the contractor and no compensation for any delay or loss in this regard shall be paid to the contractor.
30. The Scheme after completion will have to be commissioned and maintained and run as functional by the executing agency for one Kharif and one Rabi irrigation and must achieve a minimum 90% of irrigation potential as mentioned in the project report.
31. No claim for idle labour, men and machinery will be entertained for any reason, whatsoever.
32. The contractor may quote his rate considering the future escalation of prices due to men and materials & for delay due to any reason whatsoever No separate escalation shall be payable to the contractor.
33. Conditional Tenders shall not be accepted.
34. The land Acquisition plan will have to be prepared in proper form by the tenderer/agencies and they will submitted to the department. The department will process it to the proper authority. While preparing the land acquisition plan, the tenderer will bifurcate it among forest land/Govt. land/Rayati land etc. and submit it to the department. The department will submit the proposal for transfer of forest land to the proper authority on the basis of details submitted by the tenderer. The tenderer will submit the proposal for transfer of forest land with the help of department in prescribed format. Once the proposal is submitted to the Forest department for transfer of forest land by the department. The contractor will pursue it in the Forest department and get the forest land clearance. However the department will co-operate in this work.
35. Joint ventures are not allowed to participate in tender.

( V.K. Srivastava. )
Chief Engineer
Water Resources Department, Ranchi. (ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNOR OF JHARKHAND)

IPRD -21852 (Irrigation) 07-08