Annexure-I

QUALIFYING CRITERIA AND TECHNICAL

REQUIREMENTS
FOR PROPOSED ADDITIONAL GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION FOR PLUNGE
POOL AREA OF PHEP-I, BHUTAN
The Bid Evaluation Committee will assess the technical bids for the quality of the bidder‟s
past work and their experience of dealing with similar works. The qualifying criteria for
participating in the bidding process are as follows:
A. The bidder should have the capacity to drill hole having depth more than 150m in the
heterogeneous rock mass condition.
B. The bidder should have completed at least 700m depth of drilling in Nx dia with more than
150m depth of each drill hole in last seven year.
C. The bidder should have carried out Drilling for soil investigation test by SPT method
completed in last two year.
D. The bidder should be in a position to mobilize 3 drilling rigs within mobilization period.
The same needs to be supported by documents.
E. The bidder should have average turnover of more than 50% of the tender cost, i.e. Rupees
Ninety Five Lakhs (Rs. 95,00,000/-) in last 3 years.
The Committee will identify the qualified bidders satisfying the prescribed criteria mentioned
above and Technical Evaluation would be done only for the qualified bidders. The technical
evaluation shall be carried out as per following steps:

1. The technical compliance sheet needs to be duly filled and deviations (if any) shall be
mentioned clearly with proper justifications. The Evaluation Committee reserves the right to
disqualify a bidder in case of non-compliance on any of the points.
2. The technical evaluation testifies the competence, previous experience and overall core
strengths of the invited bidder, which also includes the quality of the equipment and services
offered by the invited bidders. The Committee will also assess the clarity and commitment of
the invited bidder for the execution of the work.
3. The Committee at its own discretion may choose to cross-verify any of the facts presented in
technical bid by collecting feedback from previous clients. The bidder should provide
contact information from clients of major projects in the last 3 years.
4. Technical Bids will be evaluated on a scale of 100 as per Evaluation matrix.
5. Only the bidders having marks 70 and above out of a total 100 shall be considered qualified
for processing of price bids in financial offer.
6. Further discussions related to the awarded scores by the Committee will not be entertained.
Enclosures:
· Technical Compliance Sheet
· Technical Evaluation Sheet

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Technical Compliance Sheet:

S. No Specification Compliance Deviations

(Yes/No) (if any)
1 Capability of doing work as YES -
per specifications mentioned in
Annexure-II
2 SPT setup with automatic free YES -
fall hammering system, i.e., weight
(63.5 kg) should automatically get
released after reaching a height of
76 cm.
3 Down-The-Hole (DTH) Hammer for YES -
conducting SPT tests below 40 m depth.
*
4 Shelby tubes of 100 mm internal YES -
diameter for UDS collection for up
to borehole depth 40 m and
Shelby Tubes of 70 mm internal
diameter for UDS collection at
deeper levels.
5 Use of Mazier sampler as per need (to YES -
minimize sample slippage) *

*Attach pictures of the relevant equipment and other accessories for items in points 2 and 3.
In the absence of relevant pictures and documents, the claim may not be validated.
**Attach the work order, report or other relevant documents related to the work done. In the
absence of relevant documents, the claim may not be validated.

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Technical Evaluation Matrix:
Sr. No. Particulars Max. Marks Marks awarded
1 Quantum of overall work done in terms
of drilling (700 in meters or more) and
done in the last 3 years (attach relevant 35
documents)

2 Level of experience in handling drilling and

sampling for geotechnical investigation in
hilly region and heterogeneous geological 20
formation.
3 Availability of Down-The-Hole hammer
for SPT 5
tests and readiness to use Mazier sampler
4 Quality of work in two most important
projects handled in the last 3 years. 20

5 Quality of sample project report*

10

6 At least ONE works/projects of Soil 10

Investigation completed in the last 3 years in
the Hilly Terrain costing more than 20
Lakhs**

Total Marks 100

* Attach a copy of a specimen project report from one of the relevant previous projects.
**Attach the work order, report or other relevant documents related to the work done. In the
absence of relevant documents, the claim may not be validated.

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Proposed Schedule of Execution:

Following two-time spans must be clearly mentioned in the bid:

S. N. Description of Services No. of days

1 Number of days required for mobilization on site from
the date of work order:
1st rig -
2nd rig -
2 Number of days required for completion of field work,
including boring, SPT, sample collection.

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