France – Construction work for water projects – REHABILITATION D OUVRAGES D EAU POTABLE

This contract concerns rehabilitation and improvement works for drinking water facilities throughout the territory of the Communauté d'Agglomération de Nîmes Métropole. The services (carried out either as scheduled interventions or as urgent interventions) will cover the entire water service heritage, which currently consists of 59 storage sites, 28 production sites and 48 booster station sites. The heritage list may evolve throughout the duration of the framework agreement. The services include the prior identification of repairs and renovations to be carried out by surveys and tests, the preparation of execution studies, exterior and interior demolition and support preparation works, civil engineering, joinery, and the application of coatings, pipework, metalwork, locksmithing and fittings, electricity, automation, telemanagement and the installation of instrumentation and external arrangements (fencing and vegetation seeding). This non-lot market is awarded under an open tender procedure. It is concluded with an economic operator, with no minimum amount and with a maximum amount. The services are the subject of a framework agreement giving rise to the issuance of purchase orders. The services of the framework agreement will be carried out as and when purchase orders are issued by the contracting authority and will be settled according to the unit prices of the Schedule of Unit Prices, depending on the quantities actually carried out. The contract is concluded for an initial period of 12 months from the date of notification. It is renewable 3 times, for a period of one year each, under the same conditions. Under this contract, the Communauté d'Agglomérations de Nimes Métropole acts as the contracting authority.