Invitation to tender: Design Build of TBM Tunnels for the Tel-Aviv Metropolis RED and GREEN LINES
Publication date: 17 January 2012
Author: NTA - Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd
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NTA – Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd
Tender No. 053/2011 – PQ
For the Design Build of TBM Tunnels for the Tel-Aviv Metropolis RED and GREEN LINES (the “Tender”)
1. NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd (“NTA”) is an Israeli government owned company in charge of the design and construction of the mass transit system in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
2. The Red Line is the first Light Rail Transit line of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area mass transit system to be implemented (“Red Line”).
3. The Green Line is the second Light Rail Transit line of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area mass transit system to be implemented (“Green Line”).
4. The Red Line:
4.1 The overall length of the Red Line is approximately 23 kilometers.
4.2 The central section of the alignment will be underground, and shall be comprised of cut and cover sections, shield TBM bored tunnels and NATM tunnels.
4.3 The shield TBM bored tunnels are approximately 8 kilometers long consisting of twin bored single track tunnels with cross passages (total of approximately 16 Km).
5. The Green Line:
5.1 The overall length of the Green Line is approximately 35 kilometers.
5.2 The central section of the alignment will be underground, and shall be comprised of cut and cover sections, shield TBM bored tunnels and NATM tunnels.
5.3 The shield TBM bored tunnels are approximately 3 kilometers long, consisting of twin bored single track tunnels with cross passages (total of approximately 6 Km).
6. NTA wishes to retain tunneling contractor(s) to provide design-build services for the shield TBM bored tunnels for both the Red Line and the Green Line, including the mining of cross passages and certain post TBM works as will be further described in the Tender documents.
7. At this first Pre-qualification stage of the Tender (“PQ”) NTA will review bidders’ qualification with the threshold requirements detailed in the Tender documents, including without limitation, certain tunneling experience requirements, certain design experience requirements and certain financial requirements.
8. Only qualified bidders shall continue to the second Tender stage and will be entitled to submit the quality and price offers.
9. The Tender documents, including without limitation, all prerequisites for participation in the Tender, may be produced by downloading them, as of January 16th, 2012, from NTA’s website at: http://www.nta.co.il/site/en/neta.asp?pi=464 or from the following file server: http://ftp.nta.co.il (login: 1, password: 123456).
10. A mandatory bidders’ conference shall be convened by NTA on February 22nd, 2012, 09:00 Israel standard time, at a location in Israel to be determined by NTA. For the avoidance of doubt, a proposal submitted by any bidder which did not participate in the bidders’ conference as abovementioned, shall be disqualified. Bidders are required to notify NTA 10 days prior to the aforementioned date of bidder’s conference of their participation, and detail the number of participants on their behalf. Such notice shall be sent by email to the address detailed below.
11. All questions regarding this Tender may be addressed to the Tender’s email address at: tender053 2011@nta.co.il.
12. The PQ proposals shall be submitted to NTA and will be deposited into NTA’s Tender box, at 53 Yigal Alon Street, 5th floor, Tel Aviv, no later than March 27th, 2012 at 14:00 Israel standard time. Bidders shall receive written confirmation of their submission.
13. It is hereby clarified that if a contradiction is discovered between this advertisement and the Tender documents, the content of the Tender documents shall prevail over the content of this advertisement.
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