National Highways Authority Of India

NIT NO. NHAI/RO-Jaipur/2019-ROJ/Tech/RS-JRR/ INVITATION OF PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION 1. Background 1.1 National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is engaged in development of National Highways entrusted to it by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. As part of this endeavor, the Authority has taken up development of the highways through Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) basis. 1.2 The Model Concession Agreements (MCA)/Contract documents stipulate that the Concessionaire shall develop, implement and administer a surveillance and safety programme for providing a safe environment on or about the Project Highways and/or shall comply with the safety requirements set forth in Schedule ‘L’ of Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for HAM projects (Please refer to the Annexure). 1.3 The Agreements also envisage that NHAI shall appoint an experienced and qualified firm or organization as a “Safety Consultant” for carrying out safety audit of the Project Highway in accordance with the safety requirements set forth in Schedule-L for the aforesaid Phases of Project. 1.4 NHAI has empanelled firms as safety consultant for providing consultancy to the project highway in accordance with the safety requirement set forth in the Schedules mentioned above. Only those consultants who have been empanelled by NHAI are eligible to submit their financial proposal and work shall be awarded on least cost basis. 1.2 Requests for Proposal NHAI had invited applications from the interested firms for empanelment as safety consultants for carrying out safety audit of the project highway in accordance with the safety requirement set forth in Schedule ‘L’ of MCA of the HAM projects. In response to the invitation of application for above mentioned assignment, 34 teams/23 firms/organizations have been empanelled as circulated vide NHAI Policy Circular No. 204/2016 dated 19.04.2016 enclosed as Appendix-I. Further, for expeditious disposal, all ROs has been assigned for inviting RFP at their own level, keeping in view the status of each project and do the procurement in consultation with Technical Division at HQ. NHAI intends to appoint the empanelled firms or organizations for its various HAM projects. The details of the projects for which safety consultant are to be appointed are given in the RFP at Appendix-VI. Some survey activities as detailed in this RFP, which are vital to know Road condition and having direct bearing on Road Safety Audit are part of the Scope of work. Survey results are to be co-related with other Road Safety Audit Reports. The RFP has been invited through e-tendering portal i.e. https://etenders.gov.in. The interested Firm may download the RFP document from the e-tendering portal of the Employer. The Firm who downloaded the RFP document from the website will be required to pay the non-refundable fee of Rs. 5000/- towards cost of RFP, through e- payment gateway as specified in procedure for e-tender. The Financial Proposal shall be submitted separately for each project on e-tendering portal for which the firm may wish to apply in the format given in Appendix-II. The RFP is open to all the empanelled consultants who may apply for only those projects in which they do not find or anticipate conflict of interest as defined in this RFP. However, if a bidder applies for DPR Consultancy, Independent/Authority Engineer and Safety Auditor, the project awarded first shall prevail. Each team of two key personnel of a firm shall not be eligible for award of more than two NHAI contract packages at any point of time. Further, firms empanelled for more than one team shall be eligible for award of multiple numbers of packages depending on the number of empanelled teams. However, a firm shall also not be allowed to propose more than one team for the same NHAI contract package. Payments will be made on the basis of deliverable and not on man months. However, for ensurin