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CI-Abidjan: EDF - creation of decision support system for the 'Direction Générale des Impôts'

0608 - Contract notice

General Information

Country:    Côte d'Ivoire
Deadline for Responses:   Jun 5, 2005
Regulation of Procurement:   External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication:   #42671-2005 in 45/ issue
Publication Date:   Mar 4, 2005
Awarding Authority:   EDF NATIONAL AUTHORISING OFFICER IN THE COTE D'IVOIRE, ABIDJAN
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Global tender
Awarding Criteria:   Not defined
Original Language(s):   French

Goods, Works and Services
Commodities:  

Summary
Côte d'Ivoire
Service contract notice for EDF
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/120863/D/SV/CI.
2. Procedure: International restricted invitation to tender.
3. Programme: Eighth EDF.
4. Financing: Financing agreement No 6243/REG.
5. Contracting authority: EDF National Authorising Officer in the Côte
d'Ivoire, Abidjan.
Contract specifications:
6. Object of the contract: To create a decision support system for the
'Direction Générale des Impôts' (General Tax Division).
7. Contract description: To design and install a central computer site,
including back up, for the 'Direction Générale des Impôts', to draw all
the decentralised sites together and thereby link up the data and
applications involved. There are three parts to the project, namely
business intelligence, electronic messaging and electronic document
management.
8. Number and titles of lots: The three parts must be tendered for as
one contract. There is no division into lots.
9. Maximum available budget: 304 466 577 XOF, or 464 156 EUR.
10. Any additional services: Transfer of skills, and after-sales service.
Conditions for participation:
11. Eligibility: Participation in the contract is open, on equal terms,
to:
- natural persons, companies, firms and public or semi-public agencies
from the ACP countries or from the European Union Member States;
- cooperative companies and other entities governed by public or private
law from the European Union Member States and/or the ACP countries;
- joint ventures, or groupings of companies or firms from the ACP
countries and/or the European Union Member States.
The nationality rule also applies to experts put forward by service
provider companies.
12. Application: Any eligible natural person or legal entity (as defined
in point 11) or grouping of said parties (consortium) may apply.
A consortium can be a permanent grouping with legal status or an informal
grouping created with a specific invitation to tender in mind. All
members of the consortium (i.e. lead company and all other partners) will
be jointly and severally liable vis-à-vis the contracting authority.
Should an ineligible natural person or legal entity (as defined in point
11) take part, this will result in the application concerned being
automatically disqualified (in particular, the application from the whole
consortium where said party belongs to a consortium).
13. Number of applications: Natural persons or legal entities can only
submit one application (this applies equally to all the legal entities
considered in law to be part of the same group), irrespective of the form
their participation may take (sole legal entity, or lead company or
partner in a consortium submitting an application). Should a natural
person or legal entity submit more than one application (this applies
equally to all the legal entities considered in law to be part of the
same group), then all the applications involving said party (and all the
legal entities considered in law to be part of the same group) will be
disqualified.
14. Prohibition on associations among shortlisted candidates: Tenders
which include companies not mentioned on the application forms used to
compile the shortlist will be disqualified from this restricted
procedure. Candidates invited to tender cannot form associations or
subcontractual relationships amongst themselves for the contract in
question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: In their application form candidates must
solemnly affirm that they are not in any of the situations referred to in
Section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures financed by
the ninth EDF.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is not permitted for this contract.
17. Number of candidates invited to tender: There must be at least four,
but no more than eight, candidates on the shortlist.
Provisional schedule for activities:
18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender: 4.3.2005.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities: 16.8.2005.
20. Initial contract length, and possible extension: Five months, which
may be extended for another month.
Selection and award criteria:
21. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to candidates. Where applications are submitted by a consortium, then the
criteria will apply to the consortium as a whole.
1) Candidates' economic and financial capacity:
- average annual turnover during the period 1998-2003 must have at least
equalled the maximum amount budgeted for the contract (stipulated in this
contract notice);
- cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of the financial
year must have been in surplus, overall, for the period 1998-2003;
- evidence of credit lines for at least 30% of the maximum amount
budgeted for the contract (stipulated in this contract notice).
2) Candidates' professional capacity:
- at least two members of the candidates' staff must be currently working
in fields connected with this contract.
3) Candidates' technical capacity:
- candidates must have obtained good results in the past five years for
at least two projects with a budget equivalent (at least) to the budget
for this contract and where the fields involved were relevant to those in
this contract.
22. Award criteria: The criteria are specified in the invitation to
tender dossier appended to the letter of invitation to tender which will
be sent to shortlisted candidates.
Application submission procedures:
23. Final date for submission of applications: Deadline for receipt of
tenders: 5.6.2005 (16.30).
Applications received after this deadline will be rejected.
24. Application submission procedures and information to be supplied:
The standard application form must be used for applications. This form is
available from the following Web address:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/gestion/fed/fed_b03_fr.doc.
The clauses and format of this form must be strictly adhered to.
Any application which fails to comply with these provisions will be
automatically rejected.
Additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) enclosed with the
application will not be considered.
25. Procedures for dispatch of applications: Applications must be sent
to the contracting authority, and no other:
- either by registered post (official postal service), to the following
address: Ms Madeleine Yao, cellule de coordination de la coopération
CI/UE, 29, boulevard Clozel, immeuble Tf4770, 4ème étage, Abidjan
Plateau. Tel.: (225) 20 30 33 00. Fax: (225) 20 30 33 08. E-mail:
madeleine.yao@ccciue.com;
- or by bearer (express courier services in particular) with the
application being delivered direct to the contracting authority, in
return for a signed and dated acknowledgement of receipt, at the
following address: Ms Madeleine Yao, cellule de coordination de la
coopération CI/UE, 29, boulevard Clozel, immeuble Tf4770, 4ème étage,
Abidjan Plateau. Tel.: (225) 20 30 33 00. Fax: (225) 20 30 33 08. E-mail:
madeleine.yao@ccciue.com.
The contract title and the contract notice number (see point 1) must be
clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must be
quoted in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting authority.
Applications submitted in any other way will not be considered.
26. Working language: All written correspondence concerning this
invitation to tender procedure and contract must be in French.
27. Additional information: Not applicable.
28. Legal basis: Fourth ACP-EU Lomé Convention, second financial
protocol.








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