AL-Tirana: Cards — provision of ICT equipment to the Albanian administration

Country:

Albania

City/Locality:

TIRANA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:68816-2008

Publication Date:

May 10, 2008

Deadline:

Jun 4, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN ALBANIA
TIRANA
Albania

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Notice Type: 0708
-
Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 51/2008
, #
68816-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Supply procurement notice
Location — Tirana, Albania
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126658/C/SUP/AL
2. Procedure: Open.
3. Programme: Cards 2005 Albania.
4. Financing: 22.02.05.02 Completion of Cards assistance.
5. Contracting authority: European Community, represented by the European
Commission on behalf of and for the account of the government of Albania.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: Provision of ICT supplies to Albanian
line ministries and agencies under the direction of the National Agency of
Information Society. The supplies will include IT hardware, software, and
office equipment.
7. Number and titles of lots: 1 lot.
Terms of participation
8. Eligibility and rules of origin: Participation is open to all legal
persons participating either individually or in a group (consortium) of
tenderers which are established in a Member State of the European Union or
in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the
specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract
is financed (see point 22). All goods supplied under this contract must
originate in one or more of these countries. Participation is also open to
international organisations. Participation of natural persons is directly
governed by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under
which the contract is financed.
9. Grounds for exclusion: Tenderers must submit a signed declaration,
included in the tender form for a supply contract, to the effect that they
are not in any of the situations listed in point 2.3.3 of the 'Practical
Guide to contracts procedures for EC external actions'.
10. Number of tenders: Tenderers may submit only 1 tender per lot.
Tenders for parts of a lot will not be considered. Any tenderer may state
in their tender that they would offer a discount in the event that their
tender were accepted for more than 1 lot. Tenderers may not submit a
tender for a variant solution in addition to their tender for the supplies
required in the tender dossier.
11. Tender guarantee: Tenderers must provide a tender guarantee of EUR 10
000 when submitting their tender. This guarantee will be released to
unsuccessful tenderers once the tender procedure has been completed and to
the successful tenderer(s) upon signature of the contract by all parties.
This guarantee will be called upon if tenderers do not fulfil all
obligations stated in their tender.
12. Performance guarantee: The successful tenderer will be asked to
provide a performance guarantee of 10 % of the amount of the contract at
the signing of the contract. This guarantee must be provided together with
the return of the countersigned contract no later than 30 days after the
tenderer receives the contract signed by the contracting authority. If the
selected tenderer fails to provide such a guarantee within this period,
the contract will be void and a new contract may be drawn up and sent to
the tenderer who submitted the next-best compliant tender.
13. Information meeting and/or site visit: No information meeting is
planned.
14. Tender validity: Tenders must remain valid for 90 days after the
deadline for submission of tenders.
15. Period of implementation: The implementation period shall run from
the date fixed by the project manager in the commencement order until
provisional acceptance.
Selection and award criteria
16. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to tenderers. If tenders are submitted by a consortium, these selection
criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) economic and financial capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. item 3 of
the tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the average annual turnover of the years 2006 and 2007 must have been
at least EUR 750 000;
2) professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the tenderer must have a minimum of 5 permanently-employed staff
working in fields related to the contract;
(b) the tenderer must have a minimum of 10 staff members working in fields
related to the contract;
3) technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the tenderer has successfully completed at least 1 supply contract
with a budget of at least that of the contract (the proportion supplied by
the tenderer will be taken into consideration) in the past 3 years;
(b) the tenderer has successfully completed at least 1 supply contract in
fields related to the contract in the past 3 years;
An economic operator may, where appropriate and for a particular contract,
rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature
of the links which it has with them. It must in that case prove to the
contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources
necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an
undertaking on the part of those entities to place those resources at its
disposal. Such entities must respect the same rules of eligibility and
notably that of nationality, as the economic operator.
17. Award criteria: Price.
Tendering
18. How to obtain the tender dossier: The tender dossier is available
from the following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/
procedures/index_en.htm.
The tender dossier is also available from the contracting authority.
Tenders must be submitted using the standard tender form for a supply
contract included in the tender dossier, whose format and instructions
must be strictly observed.
Tenderers with questions regarding this tender should send them in writing
to:
Delegation of the European Commission in Albania, Contracts, Finance and
Audit Section, attn: Dean Skripec, Procurement Officer, cc. Maria-Amalia
Baraona, Procurement Officer, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
Fax (355-42) 307 52. E-mail: dean.skripec@ec.europa.eu cc.
maria-amalia.baraona@ec.europa.eu
(mentioning the publication reference shown in point 1) at least 21 days
before the deadline for submission of tenders given in point 19.
The contracting authority must reply to all tenderers' questions at least
11 days before the deadline for submission of tenders. Eventual
clarifications to the tender dossier shall be published on the EuropeAid
website at http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/index_en.htm.
19. Deadline for submission of tenders: 20.5.2008 (16:00), Central
European Time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 21.5.2008 (10:00), Central European Time, at
the Delegation of the European Commission in Albania, Rruga e Durrësit,
127-1, Tirana, Albania.
21. Language of the procedure: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
22. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5.12.2000 (OJ
L/306) as amended by the Council Regulation (EC) No 2415/2001 of
10.12.2001 (OJ L/327) and by Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of
20.12.2004 (OJ L/389), modified by Council Regulation (EC) No 2112/2005 of
21.11.2005 (OJ L/344) on access to Community external assistance.

Update: Apr 8, 2008

Notice Type: 0708
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 68/2008
, #
90806-2008
Referenced Document Number: 68816-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Tirana, Albania
Supply procurement notice
Corrigendum No 1
Publication reference: EuropeAid/126658/C/SUP/AL
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 51 of
13.3.2008, open procedure, 68816-2008)
Delegation of the European Commission to Albania, Contracts, Finance and
Audit Section, attn: Dean Skripec, Procurement Officer, cc. Maria-Amalia
Baraona, Procurement Officer, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
Fax (355-42) 307 52. E-mail: dean.skripec@ec.europa.eu, cc.
maria-amalia.baraona@ec.europa.eu.
for: 19. Deadline for submission of tenders:
20.5.2008 (16:00), Central European Time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session:
21.5.2008 (10:00), Central European Time, at the Delegation of the
European Commission in Albania, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
read: 19. Deadline for submission of tenders:
22.5.2008 (16:00), Central European Time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session:
26.5.2008 (10:00), Central European Time, at the Delegation of the
European Commission to Albania, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.

Update: May 10, 2008

Notice Type: 0708
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 91/2008
, #
122689-2008
Referenced Document Number: 68816-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Tirana, Albania
Supply procurement notice
Corrigendum No 2
Publication reference: EuropeAid/126658/C/SUP/AL
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 51 of
13.3.2008, open procedure, 68816-2008)
Delegation of the European Commission to Albania, Contracts, Finance and
Audit Section, attn: Dean Skripec, Procurement Officer, cc. Maria-Amalia
Baraona, Procurement Officer, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
Fax (355-42) 307 52. E-mail: dean.skripec@ec.europa.eu cc.
maria-amalia.baraona@ec.europa.eu
for: 19. Deadline for submission of tenders:
22.5.2008 (16:00), Central European Time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session:
26.5.2008 (10:00), Central European Time, at the Delegation of the
European Commission to Albania, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
read: 19. Deadline for submission of tenders:
4.6.2008 (16:00), Central European Time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session:
5.6.2008 (10:00), Central European Time, at the Delegation of the European
Commission to Albania, Rruga e Durrësit, 127-1, Tirana, Albania.
This corrigendum updates the additional information notice published in
'Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 68 of
8.4.2008, document reference No 90806-2008.

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