BZ-Belmopan: SFA — supply of agricultural fertilisers

Country:

Belize

City/Locality:

MPELMOPAN

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:163879-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 27, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 2, 2008

Buyer:

MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Original Language:

English

Address:

MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
BELMOPAN
Belize

24400000 - Fertilisers and nitrogen compounds

Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 123/2008
, #
163879-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Savannah Mixing Station, Independence, Stann Creek District,
Belize
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/127112/D/SUP/BZ
2. Procedure: International open.
3. Programme: European Union banana support programme, SFA 2005.
4. Financing: Budget line B7-8710 — assistance to traditional ACP
suppliers of bananas.
5. Contracting authority: Ministry of Economic Development, Commerce,
Industry and Consumer Protection, New Administration Building, Belmopan,
Cayo District, Belize.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: The subject of the contract is the
manufacture and delivery to Savannah Mixing Station, Independence, Stann
Creek District, Belize, by the contractor of the following goods in 1 lot.
Agricultural fertilisers (1 244 550 kg of urea (46-0-0) and 1 244 550 kg
of potassium chloride (0-0-60)).
7. Number and titles of lots: Lot 1: agricultural fertilisers.
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 1 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 its tender that it would offer a discount in the event that its tender
is 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 14
450 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: No information meeting is
planned.
14. Tender validity: Tenders must remain valid for a period of 90 days
after the deadline for submission of tenders.
15. Period of implementation: The period of implementation will be from
1.10.2008 to 1.2.2009.
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 annual average turnover of the tenderer over the past 3 years must
be equivalent to at least EUR 1 500 000;
(b) the tenderer must have access to credit equivalent to at least EUR 1
500 000 from a recognised financial institution.
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 professional certificate appropriate to this
contract;
(b) must have at least 5 permanent staff working in fields related to this
contract over the past 3 years.
3) Technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the tenderer must have successfully completed at least 3 contracts
with a budget of at least that of this contract in the past 5 years. The
contracting authority reserves the right to ask for copies of the
respective certificates of final acceptance from the supervisors of the
projects concerned;
(b) the tenderer must have worked successfully on at least 3 projects in
fields related to this 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 econdev@btl.net and/or
Ministry of Economic Development, Commerce, Industry and Consumer
Protection, New Administration Building, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize
(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: 2.9.2008 (16:00), local time at
the Ministry of Economic Development, Commerce, Industry and Consumer
Protection, New Administration Building, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 3.9.2008 (10:00), local time at the Ministry
of Economic Development, Commerce, Industry and Consumer Protection.
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 856/1999 — special framework
of assistance to traditional ACP suppliers of bananas to the European
Union.

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