Rehabilitation and Construction of Uzina Rubik Bridge

Specific Procurement Notice

Request for Bids

Small Works

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Albania

Name of Project: Building Resilient Bridges

Contract Title: Rehabilitation and Construction of Uzina Rubik Bridge

Loan No.: 94790-AL

RFB Reference No.: AL-ARA-531198-CW-RFB

1) The Government of Albania has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Building Resilient Bridges Project (BRBP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for the civil works for the Rehabilitation and Construction of Uzina Rubik Bridge. Procurement process will be governed by the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations.

2) The Albanian Road Authority now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the Rehabilitation/Construction of Uzina Rubik Bridge located in region of Lezha. The works under this contract include the demolition of existing bridge structures and the construction of new reinforced-concrete bridge together with associated approach roads, drainage, river works, guardrails, signage, and environmental protection measures. The contract duration is twenty (20) months and the Defect Liability Period of twelve (12) months. Qualifications requirement are presented in the Bidding Documents. Bidders are required to have the following minimum qualification:

a) The Bidder shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means (independent of any contractual advance payment) sufficient to meet the construction cash flow requirements estimated as one million one hundred thousand (1,100.000) Euro for the subject contract(s) net of the Bidder’s other commitments.

b)The Bidders shall also demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Employer, that it has adequate sources of finance to meet the cash flow requirements on works currently in progress and for future contract commitments.

c) The audited balance sheets or, if not required by the laws of the Bidder’s country, other financial statements acceptable to the Employer, for the last three (3) years prior to the deadline of submission (i.e. 2023, 2024, 2025), shall be submitted and must demonstrate the current soundness of the Bidder’s financial position and indicate its prospective long-term profitability.

d) Minimum average annual construction turnover of eight million nine hundred thousand (8,900,000) Euro, calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the three (3) years prior the deadline of submission (i.e. 2023, 2024, 2025), divided by three (3) years.

e) Experience under construction contracts in the role of prime contractor, JV member, subcontractor, or management contractor for at least the last five (5) years, prior to the deadline of submission.

f) A minimum number of similar contracts specified below that have been satisfactorily and substantially completed as a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or sub-contractor between 1st January 2021 and bid submission deadline: Two (2) contracts, each of minimum value 3,600,000 Euro. Or Less than or equal to 2 contracts each of minimum value of 3,600,000 Euro but with total value of all contracts equal or more than 7,200,000 Euro. The similarity of the contracts shall be based on Section VII, Scope of Works, specify the minimum key requirements in terms of physical size, complexity, construction method, technology and/or other characteristics including part of the requirements.

g) For the above and any other contracts substantially completed and under implementation] as prime contractor, joint venture member, or sub-contractor between 1st January 2021 and Application submission deadline, a minimum construction experience in the following key activities successfully completed.

• Bored cast-in-place piles with diameter ≥ 800 mm, with piles executed at depths of up to 30 m, and a minimum cumulative executed length of 1,500 m;
• Reinforced-concrete short-span bridges total cumulative deck ≥ 100 m;
• Road Embankments ≥ 18 000 m³;
• Pavement surfacing ≥ 7 500 m²;

3) Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers”, dated July 2016 as amended on November 2020, (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

4) Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Albanian Road Authority and inspect the bidding document during office 08:00 to 16:30 (Monday to Thursday) and 08:00 to 14:00 on Friday at the address given below.

5) The bidding document in English may be purchased by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of 10.000 Albanian Lek. The method of payment will be a direct deposit to the ARA though the Albanian Treasury at the following account:

The Bank: CREDINS BANK

Account Name: NDERTIMI I URAVE TE QENDRUESHME

SWIFT Code: CDISALTRXXXX

Account Number: 00002015360

Iban: AL04212110090000000002015360

Account Code: 00002015360

Description: Purchase bidding documents

The bidding document will be sent by email or dispatched and consist of:

• Volume I: The request for Bids (RFB)
• Volume II: Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP)
• Volume III: Drawings/Design

6) Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before July 20, 2026 not later than 10:00 am local time. Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on July 20, 2026 not later than 10:10 am local time.

7) All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Security Declaration.

8) The address referred to above is:

Albanian Road Authority

BRBP Project Implementation Team (PIT)

Street address: Rruga Sami Frasheri No. 33, Tirana, Albania

Room number: Ground Floor, Protocol office

Tel: 042 227 3308

Email: ami.kozeli@arrsh.gov.al

rexhina.rakipi@arrsh.gov.al

Web site: www.arrsh.gov.al