Appointment of Project Supervision services Agency for providing Project Supervision Services for various signaling projects of S&T department in Mumbai Division, Western Railway

(B)Financial Capacity: The Bidder shall have received total income equal to 150 % of the estimated cost of the Project Management Services mentioned in item No. 2 of the KIT (para 1.1.2) from professional (consultancy) fees in the 3 (three) financial years preceding the Bid Due Date. For the avoidance of doubt, professional fees refer to fees received by the Bidder for providing consultancy and/or supervision to its clients. In case of Consortium, the Financial Capacity of only the Lead Member will be considered. Moreover, each member of the Consortium should have at least 25% of the Financial Capacity for the purpose of further evaluation for the eligibility of the Consortium.

A)Technical Capacity: For demonstrating technical capacity, the Bidder shall have, over the past 5 (five) Financial Years and including the current Financial Year preceding the Bid Due Date, completed or substantially completed one Eligible Assignment of value equal to or more than 35% of the estimated cost of the Project Management Services mentioned in item No. 2 of the KIT (clause 1.1.2) (the "Technical Capacity"). For evaluation, substantially completed means that the Bidder has received at least 90% of the professional fees /agreement value towards undertaking such Eligible Assignment. Provided further, that in case of a Consortium, experience of the Consortium as a whole or any of its constituent Members shall be considered

(C)Availability and conditions of Eligibility for Key Personnel: The Bidder shall offer and make available all Key Personnel meeting the requirements specified in Clause 10 related to Manpower Deployment under the Terms of Reference of this RFP. If more than 25% of the Key Personnel proposed by the bidder fail to meet the eligibility criteria, the bidder shall be considered to have failed to meet the eligibility criteria with regard to Key Personnel. However, in case of failure up to 25% of Key Personnel to meet eligibility criteria, zero marks will be awarded to such Key Personnel during evaluation of technical score as per clause 3.2.2 and the bidder will have to replace such Key Personnel with eligible Key Personnel within a period of three days from communication made by Authority in this regard. If the bidder fails to replace such Key Personnel within the aforesaid time, Authority reserves the right to reject the offer of such bidder(s) and proceed for opening the Financial Bids. Failure of Team Leader to meet the eligibility criteria as per Clause 10 related to Manpower Deployment under the Terms of Reference of this RFP shall result in summary rejection of the offer.

3.1.3.Eligible Assignment For the purpose of Technical Capacity and evaluations, the Project Management Consultancy/ Services (technical consultancy and/or supervision) contracts shall qualify as Eligible Assignment, (the "Eligible Assignment"), if: (a)the assignment is directly awarded to the Bidder by a Govt. Department / PSUs; or by a Public listed company having average annual turnover of Rs 500 crore and above in last 3 financial years excluding the current financial year, listed on National Stock Exchange or Bombay Stock Exchange, registered at least 5 years back from the date of submission of Bid by the Bidder to the Authority. In case of foreign assignment, work experience for only 1.1.1 Government bodies shall be considered. (b)the nature of the projects for which the above Project Management Consultancy/ Services have been engaged for development and/or construction, falls under the following categories: (i) [Any Engineering project of railway / metro /Any SPV with Ministry of Railways / DFCCIL / multi modal transport hub / Airport / Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) / High Speed Rail (HSR) / monorail; or (ii) Airport terminals (with or without related airport infrastructure works), ports, integrated check posts, and bus terminals; OR (iii) National Highway or State Highway or Expressway or Similar Highway; OR (iv) Commercial/ Residential real estate project.

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In addition to General condition of contract 2022 and Indian Railways Unified standard specification Works Materials latest Volume I II , revised upto date, special condition attached shall also apply.

Rates are inclusive of all taxes/octroi, License fee, Royalty charges etc. legally leviable by state, central Govt. and/or any other local authority.

It shall not be obligatory on the said authority to accept the lowest tender and no tenderer/tenderers shall demand any explanation for the cause of rejection of his/their tender.

If the tenderers deliberately gives/give wrong information in his/their tender or creates/create circumstances for the acceptance of his/their tender, the Railway reserves the right to reject such tender at any stage.

The Railway reserves the right of not to invite tenders for any of the railway work or works or to invite open or limited tenders and when tenders are called, to accept a tender in whole or in part or reject any tender or all tenders without assigning reasons for such action.

All documents in support of fulfilment of eligibility criteria with respect to completion of Similar nature of work for Technical Eligibility Criteria and Total contract value for Financial Eligibility Criteria should be furnished along with the tender and should be submitted online at the time of tender bidding. Tenders not accompanied by documentary evidence in support of eligibility criteria will be summarily rejected. No post tender communication, in any form will be made or entertained, after opening of tender box, in this regard. Railways may however call for the originals of the credentials for verification or any clarifications/confirmations on the contents of the documents submitted.

Bid Security for RFP:- The Bid Security shall be deposited either in cash through e-payment gateway or submitted as Bank Guarantee bond from a scheduled commercial bank of India or as mentioned in tender documents. The Bank Guarantee bond shall be as per Annexure-V and shall be valid for a period of 90 days beyond the bid validity period.

In case, submission of Bid Security in the form of Bank Guarantee Bond, following shall be ensured: A scanned copy of the Bank Guarantee bond shall be uploaded on e-Procurement Portal (IREPS) while applying to the tender. The original Bank Guarantee bond should be delivered in person to the official nominated as indicated in the tender document before closing date for submission of bids. (i.e. excluding the last date of submission of bids) Non submission of scanned copy of Bank Guarantee bond with the bid on e-tendering portal (IREPS) and/or non submission of original Bank Guarantee within the specified period shall lead to summary rejection of bid.

MSEs registered with District Industries Centres/ Khadi and Village Industries Commission/ Khadi and Village Industries Board/Coir Board/ National Small Industries Corporation/ Directorate of Handicraft and Handloom/ 'UDYAM REGISTRATION'/ Any other body specified by Ministry of MSME are exempted from the payment of Bid Security subject to submission of valid registration with MSME, Govt. of India. Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) must, along with their offer, provide proof of their being registered as MSE (indicating the terminal validity date of their registration) for the item tendered, with any agency mentioned in the notification of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Ministry of MSME), indicated below: District Industries Centres; Khadi and Village Industries Commission; khadi and Village Industries Board; Coir Board; 8.1.1 National Small Industries Corporation; Directorate of Handicraft and Handloom; and Any other body specified by the Ministry of MSME. However, all other prescribed eligibility criteria will remain applicable on such Bidder(s) also. In case of exemption from payment of Bid Security as a matter of Govt. Policy, the scanned copy of document in support of exemption shall have to be uploaded by the Bidder(s) during bid submission. The onus of proving that the Bidder is exempted from payment of the Bid Security will lie squarely on such Bidder(s). In this connection, it should be noted that mere opening of bid does not mean that the bid has to be considered by Authority as a valid bid. At a later stage, if it is discovered from the uploaded documents that such Bidder(s) is/are not entitled for the exemption from payment of Bid Security, their bid shall be treated as non- responsive and rejected outright.

Price variation clause will be as per tender document