Current Implementation Situation Civil Works

Western I ndonesia National Roads I mprovement Project 3

1.3 Visit

No World Bank Implementation Review mission and site visit during the month.

1.4 Procurement of Civil Works Contract Under Category 1 of the Loan Agreement

As of end of this reporting month of November 2014, World Bank concurred with the issuance of No Objection Letter NOL on the Bid Evaluation Reports BERs and award of the Contracts for two 2 sub-projects to the winning bidders. Bid Evaluation Report BER with recommendation to award the contract for another sub-project was submitted to World Bank for Bank s issuance of No Objection Letter. While No Objection Letter NOL was issued by the Bank to the used of model NCB bidding documents using MPW s e-procurement system for the upcoming sub-project to be put on tender. The four 4 sub-projects are programmed and clustered under schedule AWP-2. Under AWP-3, Contract Agreement for one 1 sub-project was signed between the Government of Indonesia and the winning responsive bidder. World Bank issued No objection Letter to use model NCB and ICB bidding documents using e-procurement system for bidding of two 2 contract packages. The current status of Contract Packages which are under procurement stage are as follows :

1. Package 17 Sp. Gunung Kemala

Pugung Tampak AWP-3. During the period November 2014 the Award of Contract was executed between the Government of Indonesia and the winning responsive bidder, PT. Jaya Konstruksi Manggala Pratama with the signing of Contract Agreement on November 17, 2014 for a contract amount of Rp. 199,551,233,999 and contract period of 24 months. Commencement of Works COW is expected to be on or before May 2015. World Bank issued a supplemental letter to the Bank s previously issued NOL on October 14, 2014 the NOL to remain provisional until full compliance of the LARAP implementation.

2. Package 11 Bantal

Mukomuko AWP-2 As mentioned in previous Monthly Report of October 2014, DGH Director of Planning endorsed to the World Bank requesting Bank s issuance of No Objection Letter NOL to the Bid Evaluation Report BER with recommendation to award the contract to the lowest responsive bidder, PT. PT. Hutama Karya PerseroPT. Daya Mulya Turangga J.O in the amount of Rp. 228,899,717,000 with bid validity to remain valid until January 31, 2015. On November 13, 2014, World Bank confirmed the award of contract to the winning bidder with the issuance of No Objection Letter NOL on the Bid Evaluation Report BER. As the month was about to end, the Ministry of Public Works accepted and announced that the lowest bidder as the winner of the bidding process to execute the works in 720 calendar days.

3. Package 13 Sp. Rukis

Tj. Kemuning AWP-2 As mentioned in previous Monthly Report of October 2014, DGH Director of Planning endorsed to the World Bank requesting Bank s issuance of No Objection Letter NOL to the Bid Evaluation Report BER with recommendation to award the contract to the lowest responsive bidder, PT. Waskita Persero, Tbk in the amount of Western I ndonesia National Roads I mprovement Project 4 Rp. 292,700,000,000 with bid validity to remain valid until January 31, 2015. On November 18, 2014, World Bank confirmed the award of contract to the winning bidder with the issuance of No Objection Letter NOL on the Bid Evaluation Report BER. As the month was about to end, the Ministry of Public Works accepted and announced that the lowest bidder as the winner of the bidding process to execute the works in 720 calendar days.

4. Packages 5 Simpang Rampa

Poriaha AWP-2 As mentioned in previous Monthly Progress Report of October 2014, there were ten 10 out of the eleven 11 pre-qualified applicant bidders who were issued Invitation Bid met the deadline for submission of bids at 10:00 am on September 22, 2014 in Medan and opening of bids followed immediately at 10:15 am. The lone prequalified bidder who failed to submit bid for unknown reason was PT. Nindya Karya Persero. The lowest canvassed bid was submitted by PT. Nusa Konstruksi Enjiniring, Tbk with an amount of Rp. 107,321,260,000 or 26.40 below the approved Owner s Estimate of Rp.145,815,316,000, while the 2 nd lowest bid was quoted by PT. Pembangunan Perumahan Persero in the amount of Rp.108,270,000,000 or 25.75 lower than the approved Owner s Estimate. However, based on the evaluation of the Procurement Committee POKJA, the lowest bidder failed to meet the qualification for financial situation which was found negative due to its financial resources is much lower as compared with the minimum requirement of the bidder to carry on current project plus the financial requirements of Package No.5. Due to failure of the lowest bidder to satisfy the financial requirements, POKJA evaluated the bid of the 2 nd lowest bidder wherein the bidder fulfilled all qualifications and requirement criteria, thus, POKJA recommended the award of contract to PT. Pembangunan Perumahan Persero with a contract amount of Rp. 108,270,000,000 with bid validity to remain valid until January 20, 2015. After CTC had reviewed the Bid Evaluation Report BER with respect to the detailed qualification of each bidder based on submitted data and clarification made by POKJA, CTC recommended the award of contract for the construction implementation of Package No. 5 to PT. Pembangunan Perumahan Persero. The Bid Evaluation Report was forwarded to the World Bank to request confirmation and issuance of No Objection Letter NOL on the BER and award of Contract, however, the Bank thru their letter of November 24, 2014 required further clarifications andor justification that the award the contract be awarded to the 2 nd lowest bidder instead to the 1 st lowest bidder. To comply with WB s required clarifications, Head of Balai I sent response letter to DGH- Director of Implementation Affairs Region I clarifying Bank s comment and reason why the award was not given to the 1 st lowest bidder. As of this writing, No Objection Letter NOL is still to be issued by World Bank.