GA-Libreville: EDF — international technical assistance — Progreane programme for capacity-building for non-state actors in Gabon

Country:

Gabon

City/Locality:

LIMPREBIL

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:148686-2006

Publication Date:

Aug 1, 2006

Deadline:

Aug 28, 2006

Buyer:

YPOYRGEIO SCHEDIASMOY KAI PROGRAMMATISMOY TIS ANAPTYJIS

Original Language:

French

Address:

MINISTERE DE LA PLANIFICATION ET DE LA PROGRAMMATION DU DEVELOPPEMENT
LIBREVILLE
Gabon

Email:

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79410000 - Business and management consultancy services

Notice Type: 0708 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 139/2006, #148686-2006
Referenced Document Number: 100935-2006
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Service contract notice
Gabon
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/123398/D/SER/GA.
2. Procedure: International restricted invitation to tender.
3. Programme: EDF.
4. Financing: Financing agreement.
5. Contracting authority: The government's awarding authority (National
Authorising Officer in Gabon).
Contract specifications:
6. Object of the contract: Technical assistance contract.
7. Contract description: Under the contract the aim is to implement the
Progreane programme for capacity-building for non-state actors in Gabon
via the provision of long-term (36 man-months) and short-term (18
man-months) international technical assistance.
The main technical assistance team (36 man-months) will coordinate the
entire programme, supervise the local administrative team (2 personnel),
run the team of local staff (monitors and thematic network leaders), and
guide the short-term technical assistance teams who will provide support
for programme activities (6 months per year, i.e. 18 man-months).
8. Number and titles of lots: No lots.
9. Maximum budget available: EUR 579 600.
10. Any additional services: None.
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 Member States,
— cooperative companies and other entities governed by public or private
law from the Member States and/or the ACP countries,
— joint ventures, or groupings of companies or firms from the ACP
countries and/or the 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 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 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 1 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 1 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 alliances between 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 may not form alliances or subcontract to each
other 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 9th EDF.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is not permitted.
17. Number of candidates invited to tender: There must be at least 4, but
no more than 8, candidates on the shortlist.
Provisional schedule for activities:
18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender: 14.8.2006.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities: 13.11.2006.
20. Initial contract length, and possible extension: 36 months.
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 (based on section 3 of the
application form):
a) cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of the financial
year must be in surplus, overall;
b) at least 20 % of tenderers' annual turnover must be equity capital.
2) Candidates' professional capacity:
a) candidates must have a resource corps (head office for organisations
or, for natural persons, a network of contacts who are active in the
relevant field) so as to provide solid backstopping capacities;
b) candidates must demonstrate that they are major participants in
networks of non-state actors in Europe and the ACP countries and thus able
to deploy the qualified experts required and participate in introducing
Gabonese non-state actors to international communication networks.
3) Candidates' technical capacity (based on sections 5 and 6 of the
application form):
a) candidates must have at least 10 years' experience in managing projects
concerning capacity-building for non-state actors or supporting civil
society in the ACP countries (preferably in Africa);
b) candidates must have recent experience (from less than a year ago) of
work on a long-term project supporting associations (training,
capacity-building).
If more than 8 applications prove to be eligible, i.e. meet all the
selection criteria, then the strengths and weaknesses of these candidates'
applications will need to be re-examined to determine which 8 applications
for the invitation to tender are the most suitable. Only the following
factors will be considered in the re-examination:
a) amount of experience from previous or current projects involving
similar professional and technical capacities to those required in this
contract, in Central Africa if possible;
b) time spent working in the field.
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: 28.8.2006 (17:00).
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://ec.europa.eu/comm/europeaid/tender/practical_guide_2006/
annexes_edf_fr.htm.
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:
Cellule d'appui à l'Ordonnateur national du FED, Ministère de la
planification et de la programmation du développement, Centre Ville,
immeuble Filao B (Magasin Tati), 5ème étage, BP 941, Libreville — Gabonese
Republic. Attn: Mr Alain Rempanot Mépiat, Coordonnateur de la Cellule
d'appui à l'Ordonnateur national du FED. Tel. (241) 77 31 56, 77 31 58.
Fax (241) 72 14 36. E-mail: arempanot@hotmail.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 same address.
The contract title and the contract notice number (see 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 correspondence concerning this invitation to
tender procedure and contract must be in French.
27. Additional information: Not applicable.
28. Date of publication of the corresponding contract forecast:
19.5.2006.
29. Legal basis: ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement, signed on 23.6.2000.
Decision No 2/2002 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 7.10.2002
regarding the implementation of Articles 28, 29 and 30 of Annex IV to the
Cotonou Agreement and its Annex.

Update: Aug 1, 2006

Notice Type: 0708 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 144/2006, #154289-2006
Referenced Document Number: 148686-2006
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Corrigendum
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 139 of
25.7.2006, restricted procedure, 148686-2006)
EDF National Authorising Officer's support unit, Ministère de la
planification et de la programmation du développement, Centre Ville,
immeuble Filao B (Magasin Tati), 5ème étage, BP 941, Libreville — Gabonese
Republic. Attn: Mr Alain Rempanot Mépiat, Coordonnateur de la Cellule
d'appui à l'Ordonnateur national du FED. Tel. (241) 77 31 56, 77 31 58.
Fax (241) 72 14 36. E-mail: arempanot@hotmail.com.
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/123398/D/SER/GA.
for: 18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender:
14.8.2006.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities:
13.11.2006.
read: 18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender:
14.9.2006.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities:
December 2006.

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