GE-Tbilisi: Tacis — support to Twinning and TAIEX operations in Armenia

Country:

Georgia

City/Locality:

TIPHLIDA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:154934-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 18, 2008

Deadline:

Jul 21, 2008

Buyer:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA
TBILISI
Georgia

74276200 - Technical assistance services

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: 117/2008
, #
154934-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126857/C/SER/AM
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Tacis.
4. Financing: Tacis action programme Armenia 2006.
5. Contracting authority: The European Community, represented by the
European Commission, on behalf of and for the account of the beneficiary
country.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The objective of this project will be to support
Armenia in making the best possible use of the TAIEX and Twinning
instruments made available to the country in the frame of the ENP policy.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: None.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 000 000.
10. Scope for additional services: The contracting authority may, at its
own discretion, extend the project in duration and/or scope subject to the
availability of funding, up to a maximum not exceeding the length and
value of the initial contract. Any extension of the contract would be
subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open to all legal persons participating
either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates 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 also item 30 below). Participation is also open to
international organisations. The participation of natural persons is
governed by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under
which the contract is financed.
12. Candidature: All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11
above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a
grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender
procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other
members) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item
11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular,
if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium
will be excluded.
13. Number of applications: No more than 1 application can be submitted
by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an
individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting
an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more
than 1 application, all applications in which that person has participated
will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the shortlisted application
forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Shortlisted
candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the
contract in question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: As part of the application form, candidates
must submit a signed declaration, included in the standard application
form, to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations
listed in Section 2.3.3 of the 'Practical Guide to contract procedures for
EC external actions'.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting will not be allowed.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: On the basis of the
applications received, a maximum of 4 to 8 candidates will be invited to
submit detailed tenders for this contract. If the number of eligible
candidates meeting the selection criteria is less than the minimum of 4,
the contracting authority may invite the candidates who satisfy the
criteria to submit a tender.
Provisional timetable
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: July 2008.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: November 2008.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
24 months (with possible extension — see point 10 also).
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium,
these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed the
annualised maximum budget of this contract, i.e. EUR 500 000;
(b) the average of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
the year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) the candidate has at least 5 permanent staff working in fields related
to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) the candidate has worked successfully on at least 1 project with a
budget of at least that of this contract in the past 4 years (since 2005);
(b) the candidate has worked successfully on at least 1 project linked
with the Twinning and TAIEX instruments in 1 of the 12 new EU Member
States or in the ENP area in the last 8 years (since 2001).
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.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the
relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates
must be re-examined to identify the 8 best applications for the tender
procedure. The only factor which will be taken into consideration during
this re-examination is:
1) number of projects implemented under criterion 3(b) above.
22. Award criteria: Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 21.7.2008 (13:00).
Any application received after this deadline will not be considered.
24. Application format and details to be provided: Applications must be
submitted using the standard application form (available from the
following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/
index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
Any additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) sent with an
application will not be taken into consideration.
25. How applications may be submitted: Applications must be submitted in
English exclusively to the contracting authority:
— either by recorded delivery (official postal service) to:
Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia and Armenia, 38, Nino
Chkheidze St., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel. (995-32) 94 37 63. Fax (995-32)
94 37 68,
— or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia and Armenia, 38, Nino
Chkheidze St., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel. (995-32) 94 37 63. Fax (995-32)
94 37 68.
The contract title and the publication reference (see item 1 above) must
be clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must
always be mentioned in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting
authority.
Applications submitted by any other means will not be considered.
26. Alteration or withdrawal of applications: Candidates may alter or
withdraw their applications by written notification prior to the deadline
for submission of tenders. No application may be altered after this
deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and
submitted in accordance with clause 25. The outer envelope (and the
relevant inner envelope) must be marked 'Alteration' or 'Withdrawal' as
appropriate.
27. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
28. Additional information: None.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 26.3.2008.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 99/2000 of
29.12.1999 concerning the provision of assistance to the partner States in
eastern Europe and central Asia, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No
2112/2005 of 21.11.2005 on access to Community external assistance.

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