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Minimum financial criteria bidders must meet
ii) financially autonomous and not receiving any significant subsidies or budget support from any publicentityorGovernment,and; (iii) operating under commercial law and vested with legal rights and liabilities similar to any commercial enterprisetoenableitcompetewithfirmsintheprivatesectoronanequalbasis. 3.9 Firmsandindividualsshallbeineligibleiftheircountriesoforiginare: (a) Asamatteroflaworofficialregulations,Kenyaprohibitscommercialrelationswiththatcountry; (b) Byanactofcompliancewitha decisionoftheUnitedNationsSecurityCounciltakenunderChapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, Kenya prohibits any import of goods or contracting of worksorservicesfromthatcountry,oranypaymentstoanycountry,person,orentityinthatcountry. AtenderershallprovidesuchdocumentaryevidenceofeligibilitysatisfactorytotheProcuringEntity,as theProcuringEntityshallreasonablyrequest. 3.10 Foreign tenderers are required tosource at least forty (40%) percent of their contract inputs (in supplies, local sub-contracts and labor) from citizen suppliers and contractors. To this end, a foreign tenderer shall provide in its tender documentary evidence that this requirement is met. Foreign tenderers not meeting this criterion will be automatically disqualified. Information required to enable the Procuring Entity determine if this condition is met shall be provided for this purpose in “SECTIONI II - EVALUATION AND QUALIFICATION CRITERIA, Item 9”. 3.11 Pursuanttotheeligibilityrequirements ofITT3.10,a tenderisconsideredaforeigntenderer,If itisregistered in Kenya and has less than 51 percent ownership by nationals of Kenya and if it does not subcontract to foreign firms or individuals more than 10 percent of the contract price, excluding provisional sums. JVs are considered as foreigntenderersiftheindividualmemberfirmsregisteredinKenyahaveless51percentownershipbynationalsof Kenya. The JV shall not subcontract to foreign firms more than 10 percent of the contract price, excluding provisionalsums. 3.12 The National Construction Authority Act of Kenya requires that all local and foreign contractors be registeredwiththe National ConstructionAuthority andbe issued with a Registration Certificate before they can undertake any construction works in Kenya. Registration shall not be a condition for tender, but it shall be a condition of contract award and signature. A selected tenderer shall be given opportunity to register before such award and signature of contract. Application for registration with National Construction Authoritymaybeaccessedfromthewebsitewww.nca.go.ke. 3.13 The Competition Act of Kenya requires that firms wishing to tender as Joint Venture undertakings which may prevent, distort or lessen competition in provision of services are prohibited unless they are exempt in accordance with the provisions of Section 25 of the CompetitionAct, 2010. JVs will be required to seek for exemption from the CompetitionAuthority. Exemption shall not be a condition for tender, but it shall be a condition of contract award and signature.AJV tenderer shall be given opportunity to seek such exemption asa conditionofawardandsignatureofcontract.ApplicationforexemptionfromtheCompetitionAuthority ofKenyamaybeaccessedfromthewebsitewww.cak.go.ke. 4.14AKenyan tenderer shall be eligible to tender if it provides evidence of having fulfilled his/her tax obligations by producing valid tax compliance certificate or tax exemption certificate issued by the Kenya Revenue Authority. 4.0 Eligiblegoods,equipment,andservices 4.1 Goods, equipment and services to be supplied under the Contract may have their origin in any country that is not ineligible under ITT 3.9. At the Procuring Entity's request, Tenderers may be required to provide evidenceoftheoriginofGoods,equipmentandservices. 3 4.2 Any goods, works and production processes with characteristics that have been declared by the relevant nationalenvironmentalprotectionagencyorbyothercompetentauthorityasharmfultohumanbeingsandto theenvironmentshallnotbeeligibleforprocurement. 5.0 Tenderer'sresponsibilities 5.1 The tenderer shall bear all costs associated with the preparation and submission of his/her tender, and the ProcuringEntitywillinnocaseberesponsibleorliableforthosecosts. 5.2 The tenderer, at the tenderer's own responsibility and risk, is encouraged to visit and examine and inspect the Site of the Works and its surroundings and obtain all information that may be necessary for preparing the tender and enteringinto a contract for construction of theWorks.The costs of visitingthe Site shall beat the tenderer'sownexpense. 5.3 The Tenderer and any of its personnel or agents will be granted permission by the Procuring Entity to enter upon its premises and lands for the purpose of suchvisit.TheTenderer shall indemnify the Procuring Entity againstallliabilityarisingfromdeathorpersonalinjury,lossofordamagetoproperty,andanyotherlosses andexpensesincurredasaresultoftheexaminationandinspection. 5.4 The tenderer shall provide intheForm ofTender andQualification Information, a preliminarydescriptionof the
furnished in Section IV,Tendering Forms.The forms must be completed with out any alterations to the text, and no substitutes shall be accepted except as provided under ITT 20.3. All blank spaces shall be filled in with the information requested. The Tenderer shall chronologically serialize all pages of the tender documentssubmitted. 12.2 The Tenderer shall furnish in the Form of Tender information on commissions and gratuities, if any, paid or to bepaidtoagentsoranyotherpartyrelatingtothisTender. 13. AlternativeTenders 13.1 UnlessotherwisespecifiedintheTDS,alternativeTendersshallnotbeconsidered. 6 13.2 When alternative times for completion are explicitly invited, a statement to that effect will be included in the TDS,andthemethodofevaluatingdifferentalternativetimesforcompletionwillbedescribedinSectionIII, EvaluationandQualificationCriteria. 13.3ExceptasprovidedunderITT13.4below,Tendererswishingtooffertechnicalalternativestotherequirements oftheTenderDocumentsmustfirstpricetheProcuringEntity'sdesignasdescribedintheTenderDocuments and shall further provide all information necessary for a complete evaluation of the alternative by the Procuring Entity,including drawings, design calculations, technical specifications, breakdown of prices, and proposed construction methodology and other relevant details. Only the technical alternatives, if any, of the TendererwiththeWinningTenderconformingtothe basictechnicalrequirementsshall beconsideredbythe ProcuringEntity. 13.4 When specified in the TDS, Tenderers are permitted to submit alternative technical solutions for specified parts of theWorks, and such parts will be identifiedin the TDS, as will the method for their evaluating, and describedinSectionVII,Works'Requirements. 14.0 TenderPricesandDiscounts 14.1 The prices and discounts (including any price reduction) quoted by the Tenderer in the Form of Tender and in theBillofQuantitiesshallconformtotherequirementsspecifiedbelow. 14.2 The Tenderer shall fill in rates and prices for all items of the Works described in the Bill of Quantities. Items againstwhichnorateorpriceisenteredbytheTenderershallbedeemedcoveredbytheratesforotheritems inthe Bill of Quantities and will not be paid for separately by the ProcuringEntity.An item not listed inthe priced Bill of Quantities shall be assumed to be not included in the Tender, and provided that the Tender is determined substantially responsive notwithstanding this omission, the average price of the item quoted by substantially responsive Tenderers will be added to the Tender price and the equivalent total cost of the Tendersodeterminedwillbeusedforpricecomparison. 14.3ThepricetobequotedintheFormofTender,inaccordancewithITT12.1,shallbethetotalpriceoftheTender, includinganydiscountsoffered. 14.4 The Tenderer shall quote any discounts and the methodology for their application in the Form of Tender, in accordancewithITT12.1. 14.5 It will be specified in the TDS if the rates and prices quoted by the Tenderer are or are not subject to adjustment during the performance of the Contract in accordance with the provisions of the Conditions of Contract,exceptincaseswherethecontractissubjecttofluctuationsandadjustments,notfixedprice.Insuch a case, the Tenderer shall furnish the indices and weightings for the price adjustment formulae in the Schedule of Adjustment Data and the Procuring Entity may require the Tenderer to justify its proposed indicesandweightings. 14.6 Where tenders are being invited for individual lots (contracts)or for any combination of lots (packages), tendererswishingtoofferdiscountsfortheawardofmorethanoneContractshallspecifyintheirTenderthe price reductions applicable to each package, or alternatively, to individual Contracts within the package. Discounts shall be submitted in accordance with ITT 14.4, provided the Tenders for all lots (contracts) are openedatthesametime. 7 14.7 All duties, taxes, and other levies payable by the Contractor under the Contract, or for any other cause, as of thedate30days priortothedeadlineforsubmissionofTenders,shallbe includedintheratesandpricesand thetotalTenderPricesubmittedbytheTenderer. 15.0 CurrenciesofTenderandPayment 15.1 Thecurrency(ies)oftheTenderandthecurrency(ies)ofpaymentsshallbethesame. 15.2 Tenderers shall quote entirely in Kenya Shillings. The unit rates and the prices shall be quoted by the Tenderer intheBillofQuantities,entirelyinKenyashillings. a) A Tenderer expecting to incur expenditures in other currencies for inputs to the Works supplied from outside Kenya (referred to as “the foreign currency requirements”) shall (if so allowed in the TDS) indicate in theAppendix to Tender the percentage(s) of the Tender Price (excluding Provisional Sums), needed by the Tenderer for the payment of such foreign currency requirements, limited to no more than twoforeigncurrencies. b) The rates of exchange to be used by the Tenderer in arriving at the local currency equivalent and the percentage(s) mentioned in (a) above shall be specified by the Tenderer in theAppendix to Tender and shall be based on the exchange rate provided by the Central Bank of Kenya on the date 30 days prior to
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