Chapter I. Prequalification Notice

International Tender for Design Service Throughout Construction of Shunde Campus of Foshan No.1 High School Prequalification Announcement (Tendering Notice)

 I. General conditions of tender

International Tender for Design Service Throughout Construction of Shunde Campus of Foshan No.1 High School has been approved by relevant departments for construction. The project owner is Foshan Shunde District Education Bureau. The construction funds come from fiscal funds, and the proportion of the project investment is 100%. The tenderee is Construction Project Center of Shunde District, Foshan City. The project has met the general conditions of  tender,  and     is now open to public bidding. The prospective interested applicants (hereinafter referred to as the applicants) are hereby invited to apply for prequalification.

II. Project overview and the scope of tender

2.1 Project overview and the scope of tender

（i.）Construction site: Shunde District, Foshan City

（ii.）Project construction scale:

Shunde campus of Foshan No.1 High School is a municipal public school combining junior high school and senior high school, with 102 classes (5,100 seats), including 30 classes of junior high school (1,500 seats) and 72 classes of  senior high school (3,600 seats). The total construction  area of the project is about 163,521 square meters, with a total investment of  about 1 billion yuan, of which the construction and installation cost is about 880 million yuan.

（iii.）Service period: months.

The service period is estimated, while the actual service period shall be subject to the time confirmed by the contract awarding party.

（iv.）The scope of tender: the tender scope includes but is not limited to schematic design  and design development (including investment estimation), preliminary design (including preliminary design budget estimate), construction drawing design, construction coordination, and completion acceptance. See the Design Brief for the details.

2.2 The controlled tender price of the project is 17.70 million yuan, which shall be subject to the tender documents issued ultimately.

2.3 Quality requirements: it shall meet the requirements of  the design throughout the project, conform   to the requirements of construction standards such as project approval documents, urban and rural planning and professional planning, mandatory standards of engineering construction and national requirements on the design depth of  construction projects, pass the expert panel review organized by  the competent department or the contract awarding party and obtain the approval of the competent department of the industry.

III. Applicant qualification requirements

(submitted by the applicants that have passed the conceptual proposal review)

3.1 Domestic and foreign entities are both allowed to participate in the prequalification of the project.

（i.）Domestic entities shall meet the following qualification requirements:

①  With the independent legal person status and has obtained the business license according to law, and the business license is valid.

② With the  Grade  A  certificate  of  comprehensive  engineering  design  or  Grade  A  certificate  of engineering design and construction industry or Grade A certificate of engineering design and construction industry (construction engineering) issued by the competent department of  construction.  (In the case of  a consortium applicant, if the consortium member organization only undertakes the task  of scheme design, then the member organization may be exempted from the requirements of design qualification mentioned above.）

Note: the validity period of the above qualification certificates shall be extended in accordance with the provisions of the notice of the general office of the ministry of housing

and urban-rural development on the unified extension of the qualification of construction engineering enterprises (JBSH 2021 No. 510 Document) to be consistent with such provisions.

（ii.）Entities outside Chinese mainland (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) shall meet the following qualification requirements:

① shall be a member recommended by the architectural design industry association or organization in the country or region.

②  shall form a consortium with a domestic entity of  China to participate in the prequalification, with the domestic entity of China as the consortium leader. This project does not  accept  overseas entities to participate in the prequalification alone.

3.2 The prequalification application from a consortium is accepted.

（i.）There shall be no more than two members in the consortium.

（ii.）A consortium agreement shall be submitted when the consortium signs up, and the consortium leader shall be specified in the agreement. The member of one consortium can only establish partnership with one leading entity. Both members of the consortium shall sign the Consortium Agreement, which shall specify the division of duties and responsibilities (scheme design, preliminary design and construction drawing design) among the members. After signing the Consortium Agreement, each member of the consortium shall not sign up separately in its own name, nor form a new consortium or participate in the sign-up of another consortium, otherwise the application shall be invalid.

3.3 Requirements for the project leader to be assigned: (in the event of a consortium applicant, the project leader shall be assigned by the consortium leader)

（i.）The project leader shall have the Class 1 Registered Architect certificate issued by the Ministry      of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

（ii.）Effective social insurance evidentiary materials for the recent payment of  social insurance by   the applicant for the project leader to be assigned (for the six months ahead of the month when the prequalification notice was released, with the said month excluded, that is, from April to September,   2022) shall be provided. The scanned copy or photocopy of the original certificate issued by the local social insurance administrative department of the applicant (or its branch) shall prevail.

Note: The applicant may be unable to provide the social insurance payment evidence of a certain period since the applicant can only get the social insurance  payment  data  dating back 2 months before the release date due to the different local provisions on the query

of social insurance payment. If the applicant provides the corresponding social insurance management document issued by the government department, the requirement on social insurance payment data may be adjusted according to the local requirements, otherwise, it shall not be accepted.

3.4 Credit requirements for the applicants (in the case of a consortium applicant, both members of the consortium shall meet such requirements)

（i.）Shall not be in the conditions such as being ordered to suspend business, the property being taken over or frozen, or going bankrupt.

（ii.）Shall be free of the administrative penalty of canceled bidding qualification (within the penalty period). (The “penalty” mentioned here refers to the administrative penalty of canceled bidding qualification delivered according to the Administrative Penalties Law Of The People’s Republic Of China, and the information of such administrative penalty has been made public in accordance with the publicity system of the administrative law. Beyond that, any other restriction delivered on the applicant’s bidding qualification in such forms as notification or announcement or according to the normative documents shall be excluded from the category of “penalty” referred to here).

（iii.）Shall be free of any winning of a bid by fraud, serious breach of contracts, major engineering quality  problems,  or  major  production  safety  accidents  in  the  last  three  years.  (Here,  “winning  a  bid by fraud” refers to the illegal act identified in the Written Decision On Administrative Penalty delivered in  accordance  with  the  Administrative Penalties Law Of The People’s Republic Of China;  “serious  breach of  contracts  and  major  engineering  quality  problems  or  major  production  safety  accidents”  shall  be determined by the effective documents issued by the judicial and arbitration institutions. Among them, the  “major”  engineering  quality  problems  or  “major”  production  safety  accidents  means  that  the  level of  “major”  accidents”  identified  in  the  effective  documents  has  reached  the  standards  of  the  Notice On

Reporting And Investigation Of Housing Construction And Municipal Infrastructure Engineering Quality Accidents and  Regulations On Production Safety Accident Reporting, Investigation And Handling;  “the  last  three  years” refers to the three years ahead of the prequalification notice date of the project, which shall be subject

to the signing time of the Written Decision On Administrative Penalty or the effective documents issued by

judicial and arbitration institutions)

（iv.）According to the requirements of the Decision On Starting The Execution Linkage Mechanism and the  Notice To Assist In Enforcement  issued  by  the  Foshan  Intermediate  People’s  Court,  if  an  applicant  is listed as a defaulter, the applicant shall not participate in the bidding of the project.

（v.）According to the Notice Of Eight Departments Including Foshan Municipal Development And Reform Bureau On Credit Information Inquiry And The Implementation Of Joint Rewards And Punishments In Public Resources Trading (FFGXY 2019 no. 1 Document), the applicants that are listed as defaulters by Foshan

municipal  public  credit  information  management  system  shall  not  participate  in  the  bidding  of  the

project.

（vi.）According to the Notice Of Housing, Urban-Rural Construction And Water Resources Bureau Of Shunde District, Foshan City On Further Strengthening The Integrity Discipline Of The Construction Industry (SZJF

2020 no.30 Document), the blacklisted enterprises and individuals shall not participate in the bidding of the project.

3.5 The  applicant’s  performance  requirements  (In  the  case  of  a  consortium  applicant,  the  performance information can be provided by one member)

From January 1, 2019 to the submission deadline of  qualification  application  documents  (subject  to the date of scheme design approval or preliminary design approval or construction drawing review opinions), the applicant shall have undertaken and completed at least one housing architectural design (or survey and design) performance with an investment  (or construction and installation costs) of  not less than RMB 500 million Yuan  or with a total construction area of  not less than 130,000 square meters   in China.

Note:

（i.）The applicant shall provide:

① A copy of the contract or bid-winning notification.

② A copy of approval documents of scheme design or preliminary design, or a copy of construction drawing review opinions.

（ii.）If the above evidentiary materials cannot clearly reflect the relevant characteristics

and necessary information, the owners’  evidentiary information concerning the performance

of the project shall also be provided (which shall reflect the relevant characteristics and necessary information).

IV. Prequalification method

A limited quantity system is adopted in the current prequalification.

V. Acquisition of prequalification documents

5.1 Applicants that intend to participate  in  the  prequalification  may  download  the  electronic  edition of prequalification documents and relevant data (if any) from the Foshan Municipal Public Resource Trading Website (at http://ggzy.foshan.gov.cn) from October 31, 2022 to the submission deadline of the prequalification application documents (Beijing time).

5.2 Once being released on the Foshan Municipal Public Resource Trading Website, the prequalification documents shall be  deemed to  have been issued to  all  applicants. Each applicant shall download  the electronic edition of prequalification documents and relevant data (if any) in time (where any inconsistency may arise between the PDF and WORD editions of prequalification documents available

for downloading, the PDF edition attached with the seal of the tenderee shall prevail). Otherwise, the applicant shall assume responsibilities for all consequences caused hereby.

VI. Submission of prequalification application  documents

6.1 Submission of the closed bid documents of conceptual proposal

The closed bid documents of conceptual proposal shall be submitted on November 23, 2022 at 8:30- 12:00 am; or 14:00-16:00 pm (Beijing time) and submitted to the window of the 2nd floor of Shunde District Public Resources Trading Center at the annex building of  No. 1 Building, Hengshi Real Estate Plaza, No. 4 Guanlu Road, Daliang Sub-district, Shunde District, Foshan  City  (subject  to  the  on-site  sign).

6.2 The submission time and place of prequalification application documents shall be subject to the requirements of the submission notification of prequalification application documents (the submission time shall be at least ten days after the issuing date of the notification).

6.3 Whether there is any change in the submission deadline of the closed bid documents of conceptual proposal, please pay close attention to the relevant information in the clarification (explanation), supplement, or modification documents.

6.4 The tenderee shall reject the closed bid documents of conceptual proposal or prequalification application documents that are delivered late, or that are not delivered to the designated place, or that are not sealed according to the relevant requirements.

Note: The authorized agent of the applicant to submit the documents shall  wear  a  facial mask and show a green “Canton Health Code” and voluntarily follow the instructions of    the staff at the site in submitting the prequalification application documents, and leave the site immediately after the documents are submitted. The pandemic prevention and control measures shall be adjusted dynamically according to the situational change, and the latest measures and regulations shall be observed. Therefore, please pay close attention to the latest notice issued by the local trading department or disease control department.

VII. The media for the release of the notice

The prequalification notice will be released at the same time in the Guangdong Province Bidding Supervision Website, the Foshan Municipal Public Resources Trading Website, and the Foshan Shunde District Public Resources Trading Center Website. Where any inconsistency may arise in terms of content and time of the notice, the notice issued by the Foshan Public Resources Trading Website shall prevail.

VIII. Miscellaneous provisions

8.1 Since the tenderee of the project has no contact information of potential applicants, any modification, clarification or supplemental notice of the prequalification documents of the project shall  be  uniformly  released  in  “Foshan  Public  Resources  Trading  Center”,  and  shall  be  deemed  to  have informed all applicants once the notice is released. Please pay close attention to the latest notice and make timely adjustments.

8.2 The tenderee shall reserve the right to interpret, change or modify the notice.

8.3 The evaluation and determination of the bid shall be separated in the project.

IX. Contact information