Tadaoki Kusunoki, Director-General, Pension Welfare Service Public Corporation, 2-3-4 Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107

99 -- JAPAN: SOL KENSETSU KOGYO SHIMBUN: 01/26/95 PG. 2. DUE 100095 POC Tel 81/3/3586-4311 S1522 improvement of Post-Office life insurance recreation center opening time and date 10:00, mar. 23, 1995. Open 1) construction Title improvement of naha Post-Office life insurance recreation center; 2) site 2-9-1 Minato- machi, naha-shi, Okinawa-ken; 3) summary a) site area 7,645 square meters; B) structure employee training building -- reinforced concrete construction, seven stories above ground with a penthouse; parking building -- steel-framed construction, three stories above ground; C) land area employee training center -- 1,091 square meters; parking building -- 1,473 square meters; D) total floor area employee training center -- 6,562 square meters; parking building -- 4,240 square meters; e) use for lodging and parking facilities; and F) work renovation and extension of the existing building; 4) construction period approx. 20 months; 5) main materials to be used approx. 5,681 square meters of concrete, approx 669 tons of reinforcing steel, approx. 331 tons of steel frame, approx 33,875 square meters of molds; 6) deadline for submission of application forms/related documents for qualification screening feb 7, 1995; 7) contact for tender documents: accounting Section, financial management division, construction Department, Pension Welfare Service Public Corporation, 2-3-4 Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107 qualifications for tender participants among firms pre- qualified by this Public Corporation for open competitive tendering, designated consortia comprised of two Or three firms that meet the following criteria, Or pre-qualified single entities, other than consortia, capable of carrying out this Project surely and smoothly, that meet the following criteria 1) firms that do not fall under any of the following items a) firms that are declared insolvent; B) bankrupt firms that have not been rehabilitated; C) firms that intentionally carried out poor work Or unfairly cheated on quality/quantity of materials in a contract; D) firms that interfered with fair competition, fair pricing Or colluded for unfair benefit; e) firms that interfered with a winner's signing of a contract Or interfered with a contractor from carrying out assigned duties; F) firms that interfered with official staff's supervising Or inspecting a contract; G) firms that unjustifiably reneged on carrying out a contract; and H) firms not employing as proxy in a competitive bid Or as proxy, Manager, Or staff in a contract anyone who has perpetrated per (a) to (G); 2) firms pre-qualified for open competitive tendering and grade ''a'' Or ''B''-qualified for construction works by this Public Corporation, Or single entities grade ''a''- qualified for construction works; 3) consortium member firms grade ''a''-qualified for construction works, Or single entities that have -- in the past 10 years as the main contractor -- actually carried out construction of the following criteria a) use: for Public lodging facility; and B) total floor area at least 5,00 square meters note: only construction Projects in which the bidder has had a 30 percent Or greater share are eligible for review; 4) in the case of consortium member firms grade ''B''-qualified for construction works, firms that have -- in the past 10 years as the main contractor -- actually carried out construction of the following criteria a) use: for Public facility; and B) total floor area at least 1,500 square meters. Note: only construction Projects in which the bidder has had a 20 percent Or greater share are eligible for review; 5) consortium member firms with the greatest share of involvement, Or single entities, that can assign to the construction site a field representative Or a full-time chief engineer Or Engineering supervisor who meets the following criteria a) is qualified as a certified first-class architect Or construction supervisor; B) in the case of Engineering supervisor, is qualified to supervise designated construction works; and C) has in the past 10 years had construction experience as members, Or single entities, having headquarters, branch, Or sales Office operating in the Okinawa prefecture; 7) firms not related by capital Or personnel to the contractors involved in this Project; and 8) firms not currently suspended from designation by this Public Corporation within the district of the Okinawa postal services administration Office bid documents must be obtained directly from the submitting agency, not from U S. Embassy. Date of publication in '' kensetsu kogyo shimbun'' 012695. Post contact/prepared by gtaevs Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Section (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Tokyo, Unit 45004, APO Ap 96337, Refer to TC0285.. (0032)

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