Management Division, Construction Department, Teito Rapid Transit Authority, 3-19-6 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-Ku, Tokyo 110, Japan

Y -- JAPAN: S16 CONSTRUCTION POC Tel 81/3/3837-7110 FAX N/A. product data a industry sector code: s16 B detailed product description: Construction Title: civil engineering work at the azabudai ''a'' line site on no. 7 line; site: from 2-22 azabu-juban to 3-2 roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo; summary: Construction of an urban Transit tunnel (6.60 meters in outer diameter, 1,008.0 meters in length; slurry-pressure shield tunneling); Construction period: 35 months; main materials to be used: lining segments, 1,008.0 meters. C product specifications/technical data: N/a (not available) D quantity: N/a e U.S. dollar value: N/a F other information: N/a response data a response language: Japanese B best way to respond: letter C from manufacturers only: N/a D information desired from U.S. firm: N/a e primary buying factor: the lowest bid within the estimated price range. F other information: pre-screening required to be eligible for bidding. Pre-screening deadline: aug. 15, 1995. Bid documents must be obtained directly from the submitting Agency, not from U.S. Embassy. Payment in yen. A issuing Agency: Teito Rapid Transit Authority B financing Agency: same as above. C price of bid documents: N/a D purchase bid documents by: oct. 4, 1995. E Tender number required in all communications: N/a F performance bonds required: not required. G closed procurement procedure: N/a H bidding procedures: open competitive tendering. I bid deadline: 14:00 pm, oct. 13, 1995. J other information: '' kensetsu kogyo shimbun'': 7/26/95. Eligible Tender participants must be consortia comprised of two or three firms pre-qualified for bidding on this Project by the Director of the Construction Department and that meet the following criteria: 1) firms that are solvent; 2) firms that have been rehabilitated from bankruptcy; 3) firms qualified for Construction Works under article 3 of the Construction business law; 4) firms that are sound in their business operations; 5) firms that have not perpetrated any of the following Acts in the past two years from the deadline for qualification screening: a) intentionally carried out poor work or unfairly cheated on quality/quantity of materials in a Contract; B) interfered with fair competition, damaged fair pricing, or colluded for unfair benefit; C) interfered with a winner's signing of a Contract or interfered with a contractor from carrying out assigned duties; D) interfered with official staff's supervising or inspecting a Contract; e) unjustifiably reneged on carrying out a Contract; and F) had extremely poor records in a Contract; 6) firms not employing as representative, manager, or staff anyone who has misbehaved per (a) to (F) within two years of his or her misconduct; 7) firms grade ''a''-qualified for civil engineering/building work by this Authority for fy 93/94; 8) firms that have filed applications for civil engineering/building work in qualification screening for this Authority's fy 95/96 projects; 9) firms that have -- since 1985, as the main contractor -- constructed either one of the following projects, including ongoing projects: a) Construction of a tunnel of at least six meters in outer diameter, using the closed-type (slurry, mud, slurry-mud-pressure) shield tunneling method, for this Authority, a pubic subway, a third sector railway company, Japan railway Construction Public corporation, or a Japan railway company; and B) Construction of a tunnel of at least 13 meters in outer diameter, using the closed-type shield tunneling method, in a Project other than described in (a) above. Note: only Construction projects in which bidders have had a 20 percent or greater share of involvement are eligible for consideration; 10) firms that can assign, to the Construction site, a full-time chief engineer or engineering supervisor who meets the following criteria: a) is qualified as a certified first-class Construction supervisor or engineer in Construction under the engineers law; B) has had experience with a similar Project as described in item (9) above (similar Project refers to urban Transit tunneling by the closed-type shied tunneling method); and C) in the case of engineering supervisor, is qualified to supervise designated Construction work; 11) firms not currently suspended from designation by this Authority; and 12) criteria for designated consortium: a) comprised of two or three firms that meet items (1) to (7) above, and the same firm cannot belong to more than one consortium; B) all member firms must have Construction experience as described in item (9) above; C) all member firms must employ a chief engineer or engineering supervisor as specified in items (10)-(a) to (C) above, and can assign him or her to the Construction site on a full-time basis; D) all member firms must have an involvement ratio of at least 30 percent for two-firm consortium and of at least 20 percent for three- firm consortium; e) consortium's representative firm must have Construction experience as described in item (9) above as a single entity or a consortium's representative, and must have the greatest share of involvement among all members; F) consortium is valid from the date of its designation to the date of completion of this Project, and for firms other than the bid winner, to the date of Contract signing for this Project; and G) Title of consortium ''aa-bb Construction consortium'' for two- firm consortium, and ''aa-bb-cc Construction consortium'' for three-firm consortium Post remarks Post contact/prepared by haomori approved by cdukelow Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Officer (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Tokyo, Unit 45004, APO Ap 96337, Refer to TC495. Please note: All correspondence with the Awarding Authority and/or the Procuring Agency MUST be in Japanese.. (0212)

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