NHPC Limited

1.0 NHPC Limited, a leading Public Sector Enterprise of Government of India, (hereinafter referred to as "Employer") responsible for planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of Hydro Power Projects under Central Sector intends to implement the following Hydroelectric Projects:

(a) Kotlibhel Hydro Electric Project, Stage-IA (3X65MW) located in the District of Tehri Garhwal in the State of Uttarakhand,

India

(b) Kotlibhel Hydro Electric Project, Stage-IB (4X80MW) located in the District of Pauri and Tehri Garhwal in the State of Uttarakhand,

India

2.0 The Employer intends to pre-qualify eligible Applicants through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) in respect of the following works Package:

Design, Procurement, fabrication/manufacturing, supply, inspection, shop assembly, testing, painting, transportation, site storage & site erection, testing and commissioning including embedded parts and provision for all labour, plant & material and handing over to employer of Hydro-mechanical equipments viz., submerged spillway radial gate with hydraulic hoist, spillway stoplogs with gantry crane and lifting beam, trash rack (fixed panel type), intake gate (fixed wheel type) with rope drum hoist, intake bulkhead gate (slide type) with rope drum hoist, Surge shaft gate(slide type) with rope drum hoist, draft tube gate (fixed wheel type) with EOT Crane including lifting beam, Portable oil filter unit and Low Vacuum dehydration and degasification unit, Portable trolley mounted gasoline engine operated power pack, and instruments and remote control systems for gates & reservoir along with supply of necessary spares for five (5) years trouble free operation for above equipments.

Procurement, fabrication/manufacturing, supply, inspection, shop assembly, testing, painting, transportation, site storage & site erection, testing and commissioning including provision for all labour, plant & material and handing over to Employer of Pressure shaft liners and 500KVA DG set alongwith supply of necessary spares for five (5) years trouble free operation.

The time for completion of works under this Lot is Thirty Five (35) months from the date of Notification of award of work.

Design, Procurement, fabrication/manufacturing, supply, inspection, shop assembly, testing, painting, transportation, site storage & site erection, testing and commissioning including provision for all labour, plant & material and handing over to employer of Hydro-mechanical equipments viz., submerged spillway radial gate with hydraulic hoist, spillway stoplogs with gantry crane and lifting beam, trash rack, intake gate (fixed wheel type) with rope drum hoist, intake bulkhead gate (slide type) with rope drum hoist, draft tube gate (fixed wheel type) with Gantry Crane including lifting beam, Portable oil filter unit and Low Vacuum dehydration and degasification unit, Portable trolley mounted gasoline engine operated power pack, and instruments and remote control systems for gates & reservoir along with supply of necessary spares for five (5) years trouble free operation for above equipments including their embedded parts.

Procurement, fabrication/manufacturing, supply, inspection, shop assembly, testing, painting, transportation, site storage & site erection, testing and commissioning including provision for all labour, plant & material and handing over to Employer of Pressure shaft liners and 1000KVA DG set alongwith supply of necessary spares for five (5) years trouble free operation.

The time for completion of works under this Lot is Thirty Seven (37) months from the date of Notification of award of work.

3.0 Pre-qualification is open to all the firms/companies dealing in Hydro mechanical works from any country as a sole applicant/ voluntarily formed Joint venture/ Consortium/ Turnkey EPC Contracting Companies. A manufacturing/turnkey EPC Contracting Company or a Member of a joint venture shall give only one Application for pre-qualification. If a party submits more than one Application for these work packages individually or as a Member in joint venture, all Applications of that party shall be rejected. The Applicant who wish to apply for Pre-qualification for the subject package shall satisfactorily establish the following Qualification Criteria:-

Qualification Criteria for Lot-II: HM works Package of Kotlibhel HE Project Stage-IA

3.1 The Prequalification of an Applicant will be subject to its fulfilment of the Qualification Criteria set hereunder substantiated by authentic relevant information and details in the prescribed formats as per Appendix-B. Additional information in support of their claims of achievements may be furnished in any form of their device and design.

3.2 Applicant (lead partner as well as other partner in case of joint venture/Consortium applicants) should have proven experience as contractors, as specified in succeeding paras, in execution of contracts of similar type, magnitude and nature to the listed items with regard to engineering and integration of components, including erection, testing and commissioning at site. Only such experienced and capable contractors shall apply for bidding.

3.3 The qualification of a Applicant will be based on meeting criteria set forth hereunder as the minimum:

Average Annual Turnover for the immediately preceding Five (5) years either individually by a Sole Applicant or Lead partner of a Joint Venture/Consortium of at least US $ 6.25 Million or equivalent.

The applicant should have earned “Profit before taxes’ in Three (3) out of the immediately preceding Five (5) years. However, if losses are reported, then the firm should have earned profit in at least one (1) year in preceding last two (2) years from date of opening of applications.

The Net Worth should be positive and not less than the amount of Equity Share Capital including share premium in at least Three (3) out of immediately preceding five (5) years.

The Net Worth shall be calculated based on subscribed and paid-up Share Capital + Share Premium + Free Reserves + Unallocated balance Surplus amount of Profit & Loss Account, less a) Expenses not written off b) Accumulated Losses in Profit & Loss Account if not reduced from Reserves. The Revaluation Reserve, Capital Reserve and amount of goodwill etc. will not be taken in to account while calculating the Net Worth.

The Applicant’s Working Capital should be minimum US $ 1.19 Million or equivalent.

For the purpose of calculation of the Working Capital current assets and current liabilities will be considered as classified in the audited balance sheet for the year immediately preceding the date of opening of applications. If the Working Capital calculated from the audited balance sheet is negative then such working capital shall be treated as zero. In case there is shortfall in the Working Capital as per this, the unutilized Cash Credit Limits sanctioned to the applicant by the Banks/ financial Institutions of international repute shall be considered to meet the shortfall.

The statement displaying Cash Credit limits should not be more than three months old as on last date for submission of applications.

2. The Applicant’s financial evaluation vis a vis the requirement as stipulated above shall be done on the basis of duly printed Annual Report for the immediately preceding 5 (five) years submitted by the applicant along with the application. Further, standalone audited Annual Financial Statement of applicant shall be forming part of the Annual report.

In case, if Applicant’s have not submitted the above Annual Report along with application, then a certificate from CEO/CFO of the Applicant shall be submitted along with application mentioning that the requirement of Annual report as per governing law of country is not mandatory.

In such cases duly notarized copies of Audited Printed Annual Financial Statement (Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Statement, cash flow statement, Auditor’s Report thereon including all relevant Schedules/ annexure etc.) for the immediately preceding 5 (five) years be submitted by the applicant along with the application.

3. In case where Audited financial result for the immediately preceding year is not available, then a statement of account as on the closing date of the immediately preceding financial year depicting the Turnover, Profitability and Net Worth (calculated as per laid down criteria) duly certified by their Statutory Auditor/ Certified Public Accountant carrying out the statutory audit shall be enclosed with the application along with copy of appointment letter of the statutory auditor.

4. Wherever, the Annual Report/ duly notarized copies of Audited Printed Annual Financial Statement are based on other than English language, then duly printed & translated in English language duly certified by approved/ recognized English translator shall be submitted with the application.

General experience as prime contractor and/or as lead partner in a joint venture of executing a large Hydro mechanical EPC contract comparable in magnitude and scale to this work package during last ten(10) years ending last day of month previous to the one in which applications are invited should be either of the following:-

a) Three similar completed works costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 8.34 Million each. OR

b) Two similar completed works costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 10.42 Million each. OR

c) One similar completed work costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 16.67 Million.

Successful experience, either by the Applicant Company itself or by the proposed manufacturer(s) who have given authorisation to the Applicant in required format for the following Hydro-mechanical items and /or works in preceding fifteen (15) years:

(a) Designing, procurement, manufacturing and supply of submerged type Radial Gates operated by hydraulic hoists, having a value of A X H > 4400; and H > 26.85 m or Crest Radial Gate driven by a hydraulic hoist having a value of A X H > 8800.

(b) Installation and commissioning by itself or under its supervision of Radial Gates operated by hydraulic hoist having a value of A X H > 4400.

(a) Designing, procurement manufacturing/fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of Vertical lift gates with hoist having a value of AXH > 1195 and H > 14.8 m.

(b) Procurement, manufacturing / fabrication, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of Pressure Shaft Liner having a value of DXH > 452.00 and D > 4.2 m.

‘Clear Height’ denotes the vertical height between the sill to centre line of top seal.

"H" (for gates) denotes the normal design head at the bottom of the gate in metre.

The Applicant shall fully fill in the prescribed Application Form(s) as per Appendix-B with respective experience that meet the criteria set forth in (i) to (ii) above and shall attach a copy (ies) of the following as evidences:

1) As built general installation drawing(s) or Taking over certificates/Performance certificates/completion certificates issued by the Owner/Consultant assigned by him/Project authorities EPC Contractor/lead partner of the consortium/joint venture.

The available Bid Capacity of the bidder to be calculated (during techno-commercial evaluation), based on the updated data provided in techno-commercial bids should not be less than the estimated cost of the work put to tender:

B = Value of existing commitments (as on bid submission date) and on going works to be completed in the next ‘N’ years.

The Sole Applicants must comply with the following minimum qualifying requirements:

- Specific Technical experience for work items mentioned at Para 3.3.1 (C) read with clause 3.4.2, and

In case of Joint Venture/Consortium Applicants, Joint Venture/Consortium partners must comply with the following minimum qualifying requirements:

The Joint Venture/Consortium formed by the Applicants should be limited to two partners with one of the Partners designated as Lead Partner. The participation of the Lead Partner and other JV/Consortium partner shall not be less than 51% and 31% of the Contract Value respectively. The Bid Security and the Performance Security of a Joint Venture/Consortium shall be in the name of individual partner of Joint Venture/Consortium in proportion of its participation share.

The parties shall be required to form the JV/Consortium before applying for qualification which shall be evinced by submitting a notarised copy of the JV/Consortium agreement already entered into for the purpose (As per Application Form-2B). The JV/Consortium agreement should contain the role and responsibility of each constituent, the proposed participation share of each partner along with the items of work to be executed by each partner. The JV/Consortium agreement shall clearly indicate who shall be the Lead Partner. It shall also be brought out in the JV/Consortium agreement that in case the Contract is awarded to the JV/Consortium, each partner of the JV/Consortium shall be responsible for execution of that item of work for which he claims to have specific technical experience. The Joint Venture/ Consortium partners shall be jointly and severally responsible and shall be bound by the principle and commitment of joint and several responsibilities.

a) Average annual turnover criteria not less than 50% of the criteria specified under financial capacity in 3.3.1 (A) (i),

a) Average annual turnover not less than 1/3rd of the figure specified in Para 3.3.1 (A) (i)

b) General experience of at least one completed works as specified in Para 3.3.1 (B) (a) during the immediately preceding ten (10) years as a Hydro-mechanical EPC prime contractor or lead partner in such a Joint Venture.

c) One or more of the Specific Technical Experience Criteria for work items mentioned at Para 3.3.1 (C) (ii) (a) & (b).

All the partners of the JV should individually fulfil the profitability and Net worth Criteria as specified in Para 3.3.1 (A) (ii) and 3.3.1 (A) (iii) above.

The Specific technical experience of each component to be met individually by the Lead partner and/ or other Partner as the case may be and not collectively

The ‘Bid Capacity’ requirement should be satisfied by individual partner of joint venture in proportion to their participation share in Joint Venture.

Except as above, the joint Venture/Consortium as a whole shall collectively satisfy the qualifying requirements specified herein above for Sole Applicant.

Pre-qualification Applications from Turnkey EPC contracting Companies, either as a Sole Applicant or as Lead Partner of the Joint Venture will also be entertained, provided that all the essential qualification criteria set forth under Para 3.3.1 are fulfilled by such an EPC Contracting Company and the manufacturer(s) proposed to be associated by it for the items of equipment mentioned in sub para 3.3.1 (C) above. In such cases, the Applicant shall establish that it possesses proper past experience in having successfully executed Turnkey contracts of nature and magnitude, comparable to Hydro-mechanical Work Package of Kotlibhel HE Project Stage-IA, and that it continues to be in the business of execution of similar turnkey EPC Contracts. The letter(s) of authorisation shall be obtained by such EPC Contracting Companies from the proposed manufacturer(s). The letter(s) of authorisation shall be in the format - “Application Form-3E” contained in Appendix-B. Relevant particulars about the Financial capacity and past General experience on turnkey EPC contract and specific technical experience of the proposed manufacturer(s) of Hydro-mechanical equipment shall be submitted in the prescribed formats as per Appendix-B, duly supported and evidenced by as built general installation drawing(s) or Taking over certificates/Performance certificates/completion certificates issued by the Owner/Consultant assigned by him/Project authorities/EPC Contractor/lead partner of the consortium/joint venture to establish their fulfilment of the stipulated Qualification Criteria. Further, the EPC Contractors shall be required to submit joint deed of undertaking with their manufacturer(s) along with techno-commercial bid to ensure their association for the successful performance and completion of that work. In case Applicant gets qualified on the basis of the specific technical experience(s) of the proposed manufacturer(s), change of such manufacturer(s) shall not be permitted later on. In case of award, the manufacturer(s) will be required to furnish an additional performance bank guarantee of value equivalent to 10% of their portion of work value in addition to normal performance Bank guarantee to be submitted by the Applicant. In case, the manufacturer(s) is/are from a country other than

India

, the bank guarantee shall be issued by a reputed bank situated in the country of manufacturer and shall be duly confirmed by their correspondent/ nationalised/ scheduled bank in

India

3.4.1 In case of an Applicant Company, formed after merger and/or acquisition of other companies, past experience and other antecedents of the merged/acquired companies will be considered for qualification of such Applicant Company provided such Applicant Company continues to own the requisite assets and resources of the merged/acquired companies needed for execution and successful implementation of the work package put to tender.

Similarly, if the Applicant Company is a Subsidiary Company and applies for pre-qualification on the unconditional technical and financial strength of the Parent/Holding Company, the same shall be considered provided the Parent/Holding Company commits to sign a Separate Agreement with NHPC (as per Format contained in Form- 3F) evincing full support for the technical and financial requirements of the Subsidiary Company and commits to take up the work itself in case of non-performance by the Subsidiary Company in the event of award of the work to the Applicant Subsidiary Company. An undertaking by the Parent/Holding Company to this effect shall be submitted along with the Pre-qualification Application (as per Application Form-3F). ‘Subsidiary Company’ is one in which Parent/Holding Company holds more than 50% of equity share capital. A Subsidiary Company intending to pre-qualify on the strength of Parent/Holding Company shall not be allowed to participate as a ‘Manufacturer’.

In case Applicant Company (Subsidiary Company) gets qualified and awarded the work package, the Parent/ Holding Company will be required to furnish an additional performance bank guarantee of value equivalent to (5%) five percent of the Contract Price or portion of work (where the Subsidiary Company is Joint Venture Partner) as the case may be, in addition to normal Performance Bank Guarantee to be submitted by the Applicant Company to the Employer besides entering into a separate Agreement as per the Form-3F.

3.4.2 Subject to fulfilment of the respective prescribed qualifying requirements mentioned earlier, sole applicant or lead partner of joint venture applicant shall have the option to associate reputed manufacturer(s) for the items of equipment mentioned in Clause no. 3.3.1(C) (ii) (b). Specific technical experience of the manufacturer(s) so proposed shall be considered for Pre qualification of such Applicants provided the experience particulars and authorisation letter (s) of the proposed manufacturer(s) are furnished in prescribed Application Form-3E contained in Appendix-B. In case Applicant gets qualified on the basis of the specific technical experience(s) of the proposed manufacturer(s), change of such manufacturer(s) shall not be permitted later on. Further, the Sole Bidder/lead partner of JV Bidder shall be required to submit joint deed of undertaking with their manufacturer(s) along with techno-commercial bid to ensure their association for the successful performance and completion of that work. In case of award, the manufacturer will be required to furnish an additional performance bank guarantee of value equivalent to 10% of their portion of work value in addition to normal Performance Bank guarantee to be submitted by the Applicant. In case, the manufacturer is from a country other than

India

, the bank guarantee shall be issued by a reputed bank situated in the country of manufacturer and shall be duly confirmed by their correspondent/ nationalised/ scheduled bank in

India

3.4.3 Manufacturer(s) issuing Letter(s) of Authorisation as per Application Form-3E to others are not permitted to participate directly by themselves as a sole Applicant(s) or as partner(s) of Joint Venture Applicant(s) also against this Invitation for Pre-qualification. Application(s) for pre-qualification submitted by such manufacturer(s) in contravention of above requirement will not be considered and the Application(s) of other Applicants containing Letter(s) of Authorisation issued by such manufacturer(s) will be rejected.

3.5.1 Quality Assurance. The Applicant or the proposed manufacturing firm(s) in case of EPC Contracting Company should have its own quality assurance system adequate for designing, manufacturing, installing, testing and commissioning of the Hydro-mechanical equipment, conforming to the international standard such as ISO 9001, and certified by an internationally acceptable organisation. Details of its Quality Assurance System shall be explained in Application Form-6 and copy of his Quality Policy shall be submitted with Application.

3.5.2 If the present performance of the Applicant or any of partners in case of a Joint Venture, in a contract under execution is unsatisfactory as certified by the Project authority of the relevant Project, the Applicant will be disqualified in spite of his otherwise fulfilling the Qualifying Criteria here in above.

Qualification Criteria for Lot-2: HM works Package of Kotlibhel HE Project Stage-IB

3.3 The qualification of a Applicant will be based on meeting criteria set forth hereunder as the minimum:

Average Annual Turnover for the immediately preceding Five (5) years either individually by a Sole Applicant or Lead partner of a Joint Venture/Consortium of at least US $ 10.99 Million or equivalent.

The Net Worth should be positive and not less than the amount of Equity Share Capital including share premium in at least Three (3) out of immediately preceding five (5) years.

The Applicant’s Working Capital should be minimum US $ 1.98 Million or equivalent.

The statement displaying Cash Credit limits should not be more than three months old as on last date for submission of applications.

General experience as prime contractor and/or as lead partner in a joint venture of executing a large Hydro-mechanical EPC contract comparable in magnitude and scale to this work package during last ten(10) years ending last day of month previous to the one in which applications are invited should be either of the following:-

a) Three similar completed works costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 14.65 Million each. OR

b) Two similar completed works costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 18.32 Million each. OR

c) One similar completed work costing not less than the amount equal to US$ 29.31 Million.

(a) Designing, procurement, manufacturing and supply of submerged type Radial Gates operated by hydraulic hoists, having a value of A X H > 4400; and H > 34 m or Crest Radial Gate driven by a hydraulic hoist having a value of A X H > 8800.

(b) Installation and commissioning by itself or under its supervision of Radial Gates operated by hydraulic hoist having a value of A X H > 4400.

(a) Designing, procurement manufacturing/ fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of Vertical lift gates with hoist having a value of AXH > 460 and H > 12.2 m.

(b) Procurement, manufacturing / fabrication, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of Pressure Shaft Liner having a value of DXH > 410.00 and D > 4.4 m.

‘Clear Height’ denotes the vertical height between the sill to centre line of top seal.

"H" (for gates) denotes the normal design head at the bottom of the gate in metre.

1) As built general installation drawing(s) or Taking over certificates/ Performance certificates/completion certificates issued by the Owner/Consultant assigned by him/Project authorities EPC Contractor/lead partner of the consortium/joint venture.