AL-Tirana: Cards — provision of IT equipment to the regional offices of the Albanian Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Country:

Albania

City/Locality:

TIRANA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:106060-2008

Publication Date:

Apr 23, 2008

Deadline:

Jun 30, 2008

Buyer:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
TIRANA
Albania

Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 79/2008
, #
106060-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Albania
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: Reference: EuropeAid/126657/C/SUP/AL
2. Procedure: Open.
3. Programme: Cards 2005.
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 IT equipment and software to
Instat's network of regional statistical offices, in order to increase
their capacity for systematic data collection, entry and analysis for a
core set of indicators, which are needed for the ongoing decentralisation
process in Albania. There are 12 regional statistical offices in Albania,
supervising 36 district offices.
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 grouping (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 item 22 below). 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 one 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 one 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 3
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 the tenderer does not fulfil all
obligations stated in its 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 which has submitted the next best compliant tender.
13. Information meeting and/or site visit: Not applicable.
14. Tender validity: Tenders must remain valid for a period of 90 days
after the deadline for submission of tenders.
15. Period of implementation: 120 days from the order to commence until
the provisional acceptance.
Selection and award criteria
16. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to tenderers. In the case of tenders 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 tenderer for the past two years
(2006, 2007) must exceed at least 3 times the financial proposal of the
tender.
2) Professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract).
(a) The tenderer has a minimum of 5 staff employed on a permanent basis.
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, in the past 3 years, successfully completed at least
1 similar contract regarding the supply of IT equipment with a budget of
not less than half of the current financial proposal.
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 Marcello Repici,
Delegation of the European Commission, Contracts, Finance and Audit
Section, Rruga e Durresit, 127/1, Tirana, Albania,
(mentioning the publication reference shown in item 1) at least 21 days
before the deadline for submission of tenders given in item 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: 30.6.2008 (16:00), local time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 1.7.2008 (10:00), at the EC Delegation
premises in 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 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.

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