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GE-Tbilisi: Tacis - establishment of a centre for European studies at Tbilisi State University, Georgia

0708 - Contract notice

General Information

Country:    Georgia
Deadline for Responses:   Sept 22, 2005
Regulation of Procurement:   PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication:   #155283-2005 in 156 issue
Publication Date:   Aug 13, 2005
Awarding Authority:   DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA, TBILISI
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Global tender
Awarding Criteria:   Not defined
Original Language(s):   English

Goods, Works and Services
Commodities:  

Summary
Tbilisi and regions
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/121005/C/SV/GE
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Tacis.
4. Financing: Tacis action programme 2004 (Part II) for Georgia.
5. Contracting authority: European Commission, on behalf of beneficiary
country.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The global objective of this contract is:
to contribute to the democratic process and to the economic transition of
Georgia and to meet the requirements of the European neighbourhood
programme. The specific objective is the establishment of a centre for
European studies in the State University of Tbilisi with links to the
university's regional branches and other Georgian State universities,
such as Batumi State University.
The specific activities foreseen under this project are:
(1) establishment of the Centre for European Studies at Tbilisi State
University and, if appropriate, its branches and other State or private
universities;
(2) identification of selected domains for professional skills (EU law,
economics, history and political science) and research.;
(3) elaboration of the most consistent and pertinent training courses for
the centre;
(4) training of teachers in the selected domains, in coherence with the
principles of the Bologna Process;
(5) training of the administrative body and the persons responsible for
the library;
(6) definition of criteria for the selection of students, indicators for
academic quality assurance, approaches to assessment;
(7) definition and elaboration of a Master's degree in European studies;
(8) support to the establishment of a library and the necessary
pedagogical support in terms of software and access to information.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: 1 lot.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 000 000.
10. Scope for additional services: Additional services may be requested.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and
legal persons of the EU Member States (EU-25) and of Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, The Russian
Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, as
well as Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia (see also point 29 below).
12. Candidature: All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11
above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally established grouping or a
grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender
procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other
partners) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item
11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular,
if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium
will be excluded.
13. Number of applications: No more than 1 application can be submitted
by a natural or legal person (including legal persons within the same
legal group), whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal
entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an
application). In the event that a natural or legal person (including
legal persons within the same legal group) submits more than 1
application, all applications in which that person (and legal persons
within the same legal group) has participated will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the shortlisted
application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure.
Shortlisted candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each
other for the contract in question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: As part of the application form, candidates
must submit a statement to the effect that they are not in any of the
exclusion situations listed in Section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to
contract procedures financed from the general budget of the European
Communities in the context of external actions (available from Internet
address:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm).
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is permitted providing that the
contractual liability remains with the tenderer. The major part of the
services must be performed by the tendering company/consortium and no
more than 30 % of the contract may be subcontracted.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: On the basis of the
applications received, at least 4 and at most 8 candidates will be
invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract.
Provisional timetable
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: September 2005.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: December 2005.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
30 months with possible extension.
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium,
these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial standing of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed EUR 2 000
000.
2) professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) the members of the candidate consortium must have at least 20 staff
members currently working in fields related to the project.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) candidate(s) must have worked on at least 1 project related to
university reform with a budget of minimum EUR 500 000 over the last 3
years;
(b) candidate(s) must have acquired experience in the new independent
States or new EU Member States or candidate countries of central or
eastern Europe over the last 3 years;
(c) candidate(s) should have worked on at least 1 project related to
European studies over the last 3 years.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the
relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates
must be re-examined to identify the 8 best applications for the tender
procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during
this re-examination are:
1) technical capacity of candidate:
(a) candidate(s) should have worked on as many projects as possible
related to European studies over the last 3 years.
22. Award criteria: As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the
letter of invitation to tender which will be sent to shortlisted
candidates.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 22.9.2005 (17.00), local
Georgian time.
Any application received after this deadline will not be considered.
24. Application format and details to be provided: Applications must be
submitted using the standard application form (available from the
following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
Any application which does not observe these provisions will be
automatically eliminated. Any additional documentation (brochure, letter,
etc.) sent with an application will not be taken into consideration.
25. How applications may be submitted: Applications must be submitted in
English exclusively to the contracting authority:
- either by recorded delivery (official postal service) to:
Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia and Armenia, Financial
and Contractual Section, 38 Nino Chkheidze Street, Tbilisi 0102, Georgia,
- or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia and Armenia, Financial
and Contractual Section, 38 Nino Chkheidze Street, Tbilisi 0102, Georgia.
The contract title and the publication reference (see item 1 above) must
be clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must
always be mentioned in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting
authority.
Applications submitted by any other means will not be considered.
26. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information: None.
28. Date of publication of contract forecast: 16.2.2005.
29. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 99/2000 of
29.12.1999.








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