KM-Moroni: EDF — technical assistance for the PASEC education sector support programme in the Comoros

Country:

Comoros

City/Locality:

MORONI

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:21909-2008

Publication Date:

Jan 26, 2008

Deadline:

Mar 6, 2008

Buyer:

LE MAITRE D'OUVRAGE DE L'ETAT ACP BENEFICIAIRE, SOIT L'ORDONNATEUR NATIONAL DE L'UNION DES COMORES, LE MINISTRE DES FINANCES, DU BUDGET ET DU PLAN

Original Language:

French

Address:

LE MAITRE D'OUVRAGE DE L'ETAT ACP BENEFICIAIRE, SOIT L'ORDONNATEUR NATIONAL DE L'UNION DES COMORES, LE MINISTRE DES FINANCES, DU BUDGET ET DU PLAN
MORONI
Comoros

Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 18/2008
, #
21909-2008
Referenced Document Number: 288754-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Service contract notice
Union of the Comoros
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126336/D/SER/KM.
2. Procedure: International restricted invitation to tender.
3. Programme: 9th EDF.
4. Financing: 9 ACP COM 004.
5. Contracting authority: Le maître d'ouvrage de l'État ACP bénéficiaire,
soit l'ordonnateur national de l'Union des Comores, le ministre des
finances, du budget et du plan, Moroni.
Contract specifications
6. Type of contract: Unit price technical assistance contract.
7. Contract description: This project, with a value of EUR 16 000 000,
will require technical assistance staff for both long-term assignments and
short-term expertise assignments, as follows:
— for the management unit, to assist the project manager with the
operational, contractual and financial aspects of project implementation,
— for the Ministries of Education of the Union and its 3 autonomous
islands, to provide support with defining, implementing and monitoring the
sector-based education policy, in particular:
— in the fields of institutional capacity building and overall design and
coordination of teaching activities,
— and of technical and vocational training, with a view to improving the
quality of primary, secondary, higher, technical and vocational education.
The team of experts will comprise 1 expert in charge of technical and
operational aspects, who specialises in strengthening management
capacities in the education sector, and 1 expert in project
monitoring/evaluation and institutional support for quality in education
(work schedule to be drawn up in line with requirements).
Additional specific short-term support staff (international, regional or
local) are envisaged, in accordance with the requirements of the
Ministries of Education, in the fields of vocational and technical
training and design and coordination of teaching activities. Said staff
will not be part of this contract.
8. Number and titles of lots: 1 lot.
9. Maximum budget available: EUR 920 000.
10. Any additional services: Subject to the availability of funding, the
contracting authority may decide, at its own discretion, to extend the
term of the project and/or its object up to a maximum amount not exceeding
the initial contract value and duration. Any contract extension is subject
to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions for participation
11. Eligibility: Participation in contract procedures is open on equal
terms to natural persons and legal entities (irrespective of whether they
are taking part as individuals or as part of a grouping (consortium) of
tenderers) from the ACP countries and the Member States of the European
Union who contribute to the European Development Fund, and also to
international organisations as authorised by the instruments applicable to
the programme under which the contract is financed (see also point 30).
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 the
members of a consortium (i.e. lead company and all other members) shall 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 1 application irrespective of whether they take part as a sole
legal entity, or as a lead company or member of a consortium submitting an
application. Should a natural person or legal entity submit more than 1
application, all the applications involving said party 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: Candidates must sign and enclose with their
application the statement provided in the standard application form
confirming that they are not in any of the situations described in section
2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EC external
actions.
16. Subcontracting: No.
17. Number of candidates invited to tender: A minimum of 4 and a maximum
of 8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this
contract, depending on the applications received.
Provisional schedule for activities
18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender: 3/2008.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities: 7/2008.
20. Initial contract length, and possible extension: Estimated length of
the contract: 24 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 point 3 of the
tender form for a service contract):
(a) average annual income for the past 3 years must have been more than
EUR 900 000;
(b) cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of the financial
year must be in surplus, overall.
2) Candidates' professional capacity (based on points 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a service contract):
(a) at least 5 of the candidates' staff must be currently working in
fields connected with this contract;
(b) at least 20 % of those employees working for candidates this year in
fields connected with this contract must be on permanent contracts.
3) Candidates' technical capacity (based on points 5 and 6 of the tender
form for a service contract):
(a) since January 2001 candidates must have participated (or presently be
participating) in the implementation of at least 3 projects in social
sectors where the value of each project was no less than EUR 500 000.
Economic operators may, if necessary and for a specific contract, make use
of the capacities of other bodies irrespective of the legal nature of the
connection existing between themselves and said bodies. In such an event,
they must provide the contracting authority with proof that they will have
the resources needed to carry out the contract by, for example, producing
a written commitment by said bodies to make such resources available. Such
bodies, e.g. economic operators' parent companies, must observe the same
eligibility rules, notably regarding nationality, as the economic
operators themselves.
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
factor will be considered in the re-examination:
1) the number and value of projects carried out (or presently being
carried out) by candidates in the education sector since January 2001.
22. Award criteria: Economically most advantageous tender.
Application submission procedures
23. Final date for submission of applications: 6.3.2008 (12:00), local
time (GMT+3).
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/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/services/
index_fr.htm. The clauses and format of this form must be strictly adhered
to.
Additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) enclosed with the
application will not be considered.
25. Procedures for dispatch of applications: Applications must be
submitted to the contracting authority only, i.e. the ministre d'État des
finances, du budget et du plan, ordonnateur national du FED:
— either by registered post (official postal service), to the following
address: Cellule d'appui à l'ordonnateur national (CA-ON), BP 2463, Maison
des projets, boulevard de la Corniche, Moroni, Union of the Comoros,
— or by bearer (express courier services in particular) with the
application delivered straight to the contracting authority, in return for
a signed and dated acknowledgement of receipt, at the following address:
Cellule d'appui à l'Ordonnateur national (CA-ON), BP 2463, Maison des
projets, boulevard de la Corniche, Moroni, Union of the Comoros.
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. Amendments to or withdrawal of applications: Tenderers may amend or
withdraw their tender by giving notice thereof in writing before the final
date for submission of tenders. Tenders cannot be amended once this
deadline has passed. Notice of amendments to or the withdrawal of a tender
must be drawn up and sent as per the instructions given in point 25. The
word 'modification' (amendment) or 'retrait' (withdrawal), as applicable,
must be written on the outside envelope.
27. Working language: All correspondence concerning this invitation to
tender procedure and contract must be in French.
28. Additional information: Not applicable.
29. Date of publication of the corresponding contract forecast:
11.12.2007.
30. Legal basis: ACP-EC Cotonou Agreement signed on 23.6.2000, as amended
in 2005.
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.

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