Tender Announcement for the XYTZR-1 Section Investor of the Xiangyang Section of the G3612 Pingdingshan-Yichang Expressway

I. Project Overview

Construction location: Xiangyang City, Hubei Province.

Construction scale: The project starts at Fangjiaji, Jiuji Town, Nanzhang County, connecting seamlessly with the Xiangyang-Nanzhang Expressway and interfacing with the Ma'an Expressway via the Fangjiaji interchange. The route generally runs north-south. A Sujiawu Tunnel is set near Sujiawuchang in Xiaoyan Town, and the endpoint extends south to Dagutai to connect with the Yichang Section of the Xiangyang-Yichang Expressway. The main line adopts a two-way, four-lane expressway standard, with a total route length of approximately 55 km, a design speed of 100 km/h, and an integral subgrade width of 26 m. There are 38 bridges totaling 16,857.2 m (no extra-large bridges with special structures) and 9 tunnels totaling 8,994.5 m (no extra-long tunnels). The estimated total investment of the project is approximately 9.4 billion RMB; the actual construction scale shall be subject to approval by the relevant competent authorities.

Other: The Xiangyang Section of the G3612 Pingdingshan-Yichang Expressway is also known as the Xiangyang Section of the Xiangyang-Yichang Expressway.

Scope of tender: The Xiangyang Section of the G3612 Pingdingshan-Yichang Expressway will be constructed under a franchised BOT model. After winning the bid, the investor shall establish a project company in accordance with the Company Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws and policies. The project company shall be responsible for the entire process of project planning, financing, construction implementation, operation management, debt repayment, asset management, and project handover, operating independently and bearing its own profits and losses. Upon expiration of the franchise period specified in the franchise agreement, the expressway, ancillary facilities, land use rights, and relevant materials shall be handed over in accordance with the provisions of the franchise agreement.

Section division: This tender is divided into 1 section, namely the XYTZR-1 Section.

Planned construction period: 1,440 calendar days; planned commencement date: November 1, 2023.

Estimated contract value: approximately 9.4 billion RMB.

II. Obtaining of Tender Documents

Any party intending to participate in the bid (in the case of a consortium bid, all members of the consortium) shall register on the Hubei Provincial Electronic Bidding and Tendering Trading Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Electronic Trading Platform", the same below) and download the mobile version CA (Biaozhengtong) or apply for a CA digital certificate (for specific operations, see "Electronic Trading Platform" — Service Guide — Trading Entity Registration Guide).

After completing registration, please log in to the "Electronic Trading Platform" via the Internet using the mobile version CA (Biaozhengtong) or CA digital certificate from August 1, 2023 to 24:00 on August 8, 2023 (Beijing time, the same below), and download the tender documents free of charge for the section being bid on. For consortium bids, the consortium leader shall download the tender documents (for specific operations, see "Electronic Trading Platform" — Service Guide — Tender (Qualification Review) Document Download Guide). If the tender documents are not downloaded from the "Electronic Trading Platform" in accordance with the regulations, the tenderee (the "Electronic Trading Platform") will reject the bid documents.

III. Submission of Bid Documents

The deadline for submission of bid documents is: 9:30 on October 10, 2023.

Bidders shall, before the bid deadline, log in to the "Electronic Trading Platform" via the Internet using the mobile version CA (Biaozhengtong) or CA digital certificate, select the section being bid on, and upload the encrypted electronic bid documents. After the bidder completes the upload of the bid documents, the "Electronic Trading Platform" will immediately issue an electronic receipt voucher to the bidder. The submission time shall be based on the transmission completion time stated in the electronic receipt voucher. The tenderee (the "Electronic Trading Platform") will reject electronic bid documents that are not uploaded or not encrypted before the deadline.

Tenderee: Hubei Provincial Highway Development Center

Release date: July 31, 2023

Release platform: Hubei Provincial Electronic Bidding and Tendering Trading Platform