Bid evaluation criteria and contractor qualifications should be carefully set, referencing historical financial performance and contracts of similar nature and size to ensure the selection of high quality and experienced contractors. The initial contractor selected for tranche 1 could not complete the work and left the project; therefore,
the executing agency was required to find a different contractor, which took time. To avoid similar situations, it is necessary to set evaluation criteria and qualifications more carefully especially using historical financial performance and contracts of similar size and nature to select higher quality and experienced contractors.
Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2)