Yasumasa Torii, Director-General, Osaka Construction Bureau, Japan Highway Public, Corporation, 1-11-7 Utsubo-

99 -- JAPAN: SOL KENSETSU KOGYO SHIMBUN: 01/10/95 PG. 5. DUE 153095 POC Tel 81/6/448-5046 S1611 pavement of Expressway opening time and date 15:30, feb. 28, 1995. Open 1) Construction Title pavement of the kobe East Section on the sanyo Expressway; 2) site from niro, arino-Cho to koda, ogo-Cho, kita-Ku, kobe-Shi, hyogo-Ken; 3) summary this project involves asphalt/concrete pavement of 308,000 square meters and 8,184 meters in length; total length 8,184 meters; width - Highway portion, small and medium bridge portion 11 00 meters X 2, large bridge portion 10 25 meters X 2; area of asphalt pavement 308,000 square meters; area of concrete pavement 2,000 square meters; curbstone work 23,200 meters; Construction of guard fences 28,700 meters; and communication facilities at four sites; 4) Construction period 540 days; 5) main materials to be used 1,510 cubic meters of concrete, 40 tons of reinforcing steel, 161,000 tons of asphalt compounds, 25,000 meters of guard Rail, 3,700 meters of guard cables; 6) deadline for submission of application forms/related documents for qualification screening 16:00, jan. 20, 1995; 7) contact for Tender documents contract Division, procurement and right-of- way Department, Osaka Construction Bureau, Japan Highway Public Corporation, 1-11-7 Utsubo-Honmachi, nishi-Ku, Osaka-Shi 550 eligible Tender participants firms qualified to participate in this project's bidding must satisfy all of the following conditions and have their qualifications for this project's bidding screened and confirmed by the Director of the Osaka Construction Bureau 1) firms that do not fall under article 4 of the contract regulations of Japan Highway Public Corporation; 2) firms pre- qualified for open competitive tendering on pavement work by the Osaka Construction Bureau of Japan Highway Public Corporation for fy 93/94, and consortia comprised of two qualified firms; 3) firms that have -- in the past five years (since 1989) as the main contractor -- actually carried out asphalt pavement of a two-lane-or-more national Highway or Expressway of at least 70,000 square meters note: only Construction projects in which bidder has had a 30 percent or greater share are eligible for consideration, and in the case of a consortium, all mbmber firms must have a similar experience; 4) firms that can assign to the Construction site a field rbpresentative or a full-time chief engineer or engineering supervisor who meets the following criteria has had experience of pavement of a two-lane-or-more Highway as field Representative or as chief engineer or engineering supervisor in the past five years (since 1989); 5) firms not suspended from designation in no 5 zone by Japan Highway Public Corporation; 6) in the case of a consortium, each member firm must satisfy the following criteria a) has been in operation for at least five years in qualified business under the Construction business law; B) can assign to the Construction site a full-time bngineering supervisor qualified for this project under the Construction business law or a full-time nationally-licensed chief engineer; and C) has an at least 30 percent share of involvement, and the Representative firm must have the greatest share firms pre-qualified by the Construction minister regarding items (a) and (B) in evaluation of their management operations are exempted from thes e criteria; and 7) firms not related by capital or personnel to the contractors involved in this project (see Tender documents for details). Bid documents must be obtained directly from the submitting agency, not from U S. Embassy. Date of publication in ''kensetsu kogyo shimbun'' 011095. Post contact/prepared by gtaevs Honmachi, nishi-Ku, Osaka-Shi 550 Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Section (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Tokyo, Unit 45004, APO Ap 96337, Refer to TC0259.. (0013)

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