REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA

Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company Ltd (LWSC)

Clarifications on the Prequalification for:

Construction of Primary, Secondary and

Tertiary Sewer Network including Pumping /
Lifting Stations

Issued: 17/05/2018

IFP No.: LWSC/LSP/W-008/2015

Employer: Lusaka Water and Wastewater

Company Limited (LWSC)

Country: Republic of Zambia

Pre-Qualification Procedure LWSC/LSP/W-008/2015
Clarifications to Applicants Requests

Lusaka,17/05/2018
The Lusaka Sanitation Program Project Management Unit (LSP-PMU) informs on behalf of the Lusaka Water
and Sewerage Company Ltd (LWSC) all interested Applicants of the above mentioned pre-qualification
procedure of the following responses to the pre-qualification documents:
# Reference Applicant’s Question LSP-PMU Response
1 Section III, 3.1 We found the bid document describes The present documents are pre-
like this :The Applicant shall qualification documents and not as stated
demonstrate that it has access to, or “bid / tender documents”.
has available, liquid assets, The Applicants must meet the minimum
unencumbered real assets, lines of requirements for each package / lot
credit, and other financial means separately (see Section IV, Application
(independent of any contractual Submission Letter, (j): “We understand that
advance payment) sufficient to meet the the for each package category the
construction minimum requirements must be met
cash flow requirements estimated as: separately.”).
• Package A: USD 4.5 million, and Consequently, in case an Applicant is
• Package B: USD 2.5 million, and applying to be pre-qualified for more than 1
• Package C: USD 1.25 million package / lot, the Applicant shall
of the Applicants other commitments. demonstrate the fulfilment of the specific
requirements separately.
Since we have intersts for all of the The evaluation of the pre-qualifications will
package, do we need prepare 3 be done separately for each package / lot.
separate tender document with 3 To ease the evaluation it is therefore
separate credit line ? or we can advised that Applicants prepare separate
prepare one tender document with one complete application documents.
credit line includeing 3 package.
2 Section III, 3.2 We are bit confused by this Criteria 3.2 means that a firm must have a
and 4.2(a) requirement? Our interpenetration is in the past five (5) years, every year at
that for 3.2 you require five (5) times the
least the indicated average annual
average annual construction turnover construction turnover.
for the past 5 years; whilst in 4.2 (a) Criteria 4.2(a) means that a firm must have
specific construction experience it is completed within the past ≈ 7 ½ (seven and
upped ten (10) times the average a half) years up to 10 (ten) contracts each
annual turnover; over the same period! in the indicated value. The total value of
We can't understand the logic of this! these completed projects must be however
Please clarify before our partners 10 x the indicated value. For example, in
decide to participate. case a firm is applying for “Package B” and
has completed e.g. 7 contracts in the past
7 ½ years, all 7 contract values must be ≥
10 million USD each and the sum of the
same 7 contracts must be ≥ 100 million
USD.
3 Section III, The requirement shows that the The Contractor or each member of a JVCA
page 22, sub- experience duration should be at least must have general construction experience
clause 4.1 the last five (5) year, starting 1st as prime contractor, JVCA member,
January, 2013, but there is a conflict subcontractor or management contractor,
between the meaning of at least the last at least during the period between 1st
five years and the meaning of from 1st January 2013 and Application submission
January, 2013. And usually the General date.
Experience should have a longer range In order to fulfil the specific construction
of time than the specific experience’s and contract management experience, the
which sub-clause 4.2(a) indicates that period between 1st January 2010 and
st
the specific experience starts from 1 Application submission date can be used.
January, 2010.
Please assist us with the issue.

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Pre-Qualification Procedure LWSC/LSP/W-008/2015
Clarifications to Applicants Requests

# Reference Applicant’s Question LSP-PMU Response

4 Section II, page It indicates that four type of work that
17, ITA 25.2 can be subcontracted, and what
happened if the contractor is able to
execute all the four kinds of work or
some of them by the contractor himself?
Section I, ITA 25.2 reads: “… the
qualifications of the Specialised
Subcontractor proposed by the Applicant
may be added to the qualifications of the
Applicant for the purpose of the
evaluation”.
Section II, PDS 25.2 clarifies “… for which
the Employer permits Applicants to
propose Specialized Subcontractors…”.
Means, the Contractor can propose
Specialized Subcontractor(s) to add their
experience to the qualifications of the
application.

All other conditions remain the same.

For and on behalf of LWSC

Secretary Procurement Committee

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