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EG-Cairo: MEDA - family practice nurse training programme

0608 - Contract notice

General Information

Country:    Egypt
Deadline for Responses:   Aug 23, 2004
Regulation of Procurement:   External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication:   #120378-2004 in 141 issue
Publication Date:   Jul 22, 2004
Awarding Authority:   MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND POPULATION - THE CENTRAL DEPARTMENT FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND PROJECTS, CAIRO
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
Cairo/Egypt
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/119697/D/SV/EG.
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: MEDA.
4. Financing: B2004-19.080201.
5. Contracting authority: Ministry of Health and Population - The
Central Department for Technical Support and Projects, EG-Cairo, Egypt.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Global price.
7. Contract description: The main objective of the contract is to
provide the Ministry of Health and Population (hereby known thereafter as
the Contracting Authority) with 52 family practice nursing courses to
enable 20 nurses working in the family health units to support the family
physician and other staff in the unit to deliver the basic benefit
package and achieve the necessary accreditation standards. The courses
take place over a period of 4 weeks, involving 24 working days.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Lot 1: seven courses to be provided in
Alexandria.
Lot 2: seven courses to be provided in Alexandria.
Lot 3: nine courses to be provided in Menoufia.
Lot 4: nine courses to be provided in Menoufia.
Lot 5: ten courses to be provided in Sohag.
Lot 6: ten courses to be provided in Sohag.
9. Maximum budget: 712 400 EUR.
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 countries and territories
of the MEDA region (i.e. Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Gaza and the West Bank).
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 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
one application, all applications in which that person (and legal persons
within the same legal group) has participated will be excluded.
14. Short-list alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed
application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure.
Short-listed 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 provide 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 not be allowed.
17. Number of candidates to be short listed: 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 2004.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: One month from the
signature of the contract.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
The initial period of execution is 12 months from the commencement date.
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:
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 5 times the
annualised maximum budget of the contract (i.e. the maximum budget stated
in the procurement notice divided by the initial contract duration in
years, where this exceeds 1 year); and;
(b) the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive;
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
(a) either be an Egyptian faculty or institute;
or,
(b) a foreign faculty or institute having a link with an Egyptian
university faculty of nursing or institute;
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
experience in any one of the following:
(a) running masters or diploma courses in family practice nursing;
(b) running Egyptian Board of Family Nursing courses;
(c) running short-term concentrated family nursing courses.
If more than eight eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria,
the relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these
candidates will be re-examined to identify the eight best applications
for the tender procedure. The only factors which will be taken into
consideration during the re-examination are:
1) progress towards establishing a faculty of family nursing in an
Egyptian university or institute;
2) past performance in running short-term family nursing courses in Egypt.
22. Award criteria: As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the
letter of invitation to tender which will be sent to short-listed
candidates.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 23 August 2004 at 12:00 Cairo
local 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: Ministry of
Health and Population, The Central Department for Technical Support and
Projects, Procurement Department, New Administrative Building, 6th Floor,
3 Magles El Shaab St., Cairo, Egypt;
or hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the
Contracting Authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Ministry of Health and Population, The Central Department for Technical
Support and Projects, Procurement Department, New Administrative
Building, 6th Floor, 3 Magles El Shaab St., Cairo, Egypt.
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 communication for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information: Tenderers may submit a tender for one lot
only, several lots or all of the lots. The offer must specify the price
for each lot.
28. Date of publication of contract forecast: 13.4.2004.
29. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 2698/2000 which modifies
Council Regulation (EC) No 1488/96.








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