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0708 - Contract notice

General Information

Country:    Grenada
Deadline for Responses:   Feb 15, 2006
Regulation of Procurement:   External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication:   #247458-2005 in 251 issue
Publication Date:   Dec 30, 2005
Awarding Authority:   PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE, ST GEORGE'S
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Not defined
Awarding Criteria:   Not defined
Original Language(s):   English

Goods, Works and Services
Commodities:  

Summary
Location - Grenada
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/121937/C/SV/GD
2. Procedure: International restricted tender.
3. Programme: Special framework of assistance, 2004.
4. Financing: EC contribution - budget line 21.03.18.
5. Contracting authority: Government of Grenada represented by an
authorising officer.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The design and establishment of databases;
training in entrepreneurship; assisting in new business start-ups and
upgrading of the existing business environment legislation and
regulations; plan and organize study tours to relevant institutions in
Europe.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 480 000.
10. Scope for additional services: Not applicable.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and
legal persons of the EU Member States and the ACP States who are
signatories to Cotonou agreement.
12. Candidature: All eligible natural and legal persons (as per point
11) 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 point
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 one 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 the
following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
index_en.htm).
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting will be allowed. The maximum
percentage of the contract value which may be subcontracted is 30 %.
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: February 2006.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: August 2006.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
The period of execution is 24 months; no extension of contract is
foreseen.
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):
the objective of this criterion is to examine whether or not the
candidate (i.e. the consortium as a whole, in the case of an application
from a consortium) is economically stable enough to perform the task in
the event that the contract is awarded to it and that it has sufficient
financial stability to handle the proposed contract.
Reference criteria:
(a) the average annual turnover excluding this contract must exceed EUR 2
000 000; and
(b) the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive;
2) professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
the objective of this criteria is to examine whether or not the candidate
(i.e. the consortium as a whole, in the case of an application from a
consortium) has sufficient on-going staff resources and expertise to be
able to handle the proposed contract and real expertise in similar fields
related to the contract.
Reference criteria:
(a) specific experience with the implementation of programmes of this
nature;
(b) at least 3 staff working for the applicant in fields related to this
contract;
(c) at least 30 % of all staff working for the candidate in fields
related to this contract are permanent;
3) technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
the objective of this criteria is to examine whether or not the candidate
(i.e. the consortium as a whole, in the case of an application form a
consortium) has sufficient expertise and experience to be able to handle
the proposed contract.
Reference criteria:
the candidate has worked successfully on at least 2 projects with a
budget of at least that of this contract in fields related to this
contract in the past 5 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) quality and competence of the staff;
2) previous experience from similar assignments.
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: 15.2.2006 (16.00), Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT).
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:
The National Authorising Officer, Prime Minister's Office, 3rd floor,
Ministerial Complex, Tanteen, St George's, Grenada. Tel. (1-473) 439 56
06. Fax (1-473) 440 41 16. E-mail: edf.ssu@gov.gd,
- or hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
The National Authorising Officer, Prime Minister's Office, 3rd floor,
Ministerial Complex,Tanteen, St George's, Grenada. Tel. (1-473) 439 56
06. Fax: (1-473) 440 41 16. E-mail: edf.ssu@gov.gd.
The contract title and the publication reference (see point 1) 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: July 2005.
29. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 856/99 of April 1999,
establishing a special framework of assistance for traditional ACP
suppliers of bananas (SFA).








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