WORKS PACKAGE 2: LOT 2 DUNGA LAKE INTAKE, WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND NYALENDA PONDS – LVWATSAN

LAKE VICTORIA WATER AND SANITATION (LVWATSAN) TENDER NOVEMBER 2022 

SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE (REPUBLICATION)  

INVITATION FOR PREQUALIFICATION

LVSWWDA/PQ/1/2022-23/LVWATSAN/WP2/Lot 2 

The Lake Victoria South Water Works Development Agency (LVSWWDA), “the Employer”, has received funds from
Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union Africa Infrastructure
Trust Fund (AITF) and the Government of Kenya, towards the cost of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation (LVWATSAN)
Program, and it intends to apply part of the funds to payments under the contract for Works Package 2: Lot 2 Dunga Lake
Intake, Water Treatment Plant and Nyalenda Ponds; LVSWWDA/PQ/1/2022-23/LVWATSAN/WP2/Lot2
The Employer intends to prequalify firms for Works Package 2: Lot 2 Dunga Lake Intake, Water Treatment Plant and Nyalenda
Ponds, which comprise the following;
• Rehabilitation and Improvement of Dunga Intake Works (3 No. pumping stations)
• Rehabilitation and Improvement of Dunga Water Treatment Plant (conventional treatment plant with aeration, coagulation,
flocculation, sedimentation and filtration processes with design capacity of 45,000m3/day)
• Rehabilitation and Improvement of Nyalenda Wastewater Treatment Plant (three wastewater treatment lines comprising
the following stages: anaerobic ponds, facultative ponds and two stages of maturation ponds. The design
capacity is 11,000 m3/day)
A detailed Description of the Scope of Works is in the Prequalification Document.
It is expected that invitations for bid will be made by March 2023.
The main prequalification criteira are the following:
• Nationality and Eligibility as per AFD and EIB requirements;
• No termination of a contract as a result of Applicant’s default in the past five (5) years;
• Not under suspension from bidding by the Employer based on execution of a Bid Securing Declaration;
• Pending litigation shall in total not represent more than one hundred percent (100%) of the Applicant’s net worth
and shall be treated as resolved against the Applicant;
• Financial capabilities:
o access to financial means sufficient to meet the construction cash flow requirements estimated as two millions
euros (EUR 2,000,000);
o meet the cash flow requirements on works currently in progress and for future contract commitments;
o current soundness of the Applicant’s financial position;
o Minimum average Annual Turnover of ten million euros (10,000,000 EUR), for the last five (5) years;
• General Construction experience for at least the last five (5) years;
• Specific experience:
o Two (2) substantially completed contracts for the construction/rehabilitation/improvement of Water Treatment
Plants of minimum capacity 12,000 m³/day.
o One (1) reference of Construction/Desludging of Waste Stabilization Ponds or Earthworks in wet or swampy
areas of at least 90,000 m3
o Two (2) references of supply, installation, testing and commissioning of pumping stations of atleast capacity
of Q ≥ 500 m³/h
The full criteria are available in the Prequalifcation documents.
Procurement of Works will be done under one single tender through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) Procedures.
Interested eligible Applicants may access pre-qualification documents by downloading the same from LVSWWDA’s website
(www.lvswwda.go.ke), the Kenya Government Portal www.tenders.go.ke, or AFD’s website (http://afd.dgmarket.
com), free of charge.
Applications for prequalification should be submitted in sealed envelope containing; 1 No. original, 2 No. paper copies and
2 No. flash discs containing an electronic copy, delivered and registered at the Supply Chain Management Office situated
at Ground Floor of Lavictors House, off-Ring Road Milimani, Kisumu before 11.00 AM (Kenyan time) on 2nd December,
2023, and be clearly marked “Application to Prequalify for Works Package 2: Dunga Lake Intake, Water Treatment Plant and
Nyalenda Ponds LVSWWDA/PQ/1/2022-23/LVWATSAN/WP2/Lot2
Address: Chief Executive Officer
Lake Victoria South Water Works Development Agency
Lavictors’ House, Off Ring Road, Milimani
P.O. Box 3325, 40100, Kisumu, Kenya
Phone: +254 (0)57 2025128
E-mail: procurement@lvswwda.go.ke CC: info@lvswwda.go.ke and procurement2@lvswwda.go.ke