B-Brussels: construction of a covered walkway and a bicycle shelter for the Council of the European Union's crèche in Brussels

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:201448-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 5, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 4, 2008

Buyer:

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Original Language:

French

Address:

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
BRUSSELS
Belgium

Email:

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Notice Type: CONS
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 150/2008
, #
201448-2008
Contract Nature: Works
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Lowest price

Summary:
Contract notice
Works
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): Council of the European Union,
General Secretariat, attn: Procurement Coordination Unit, Office 1070 KL
77, Rue de la Loi 175, B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62.
Fax (32-2) 281 80 93. E-mail: tendering@consilium.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
Further information can be obtained from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, Rue de la Loi 175,
B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel.
Address for deliveries by hand/private courier: Chaussée d'Etterbeek 70,
quai de déchargement, B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel (from 9:00 to 16:00).
Requests to participate sent by e-mail or fax must be confirmed by letter
to: Procurement Coordination Unit, Office 10 70 KL 77, B-1048
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62. Fax (32-2) 281 80 93. E-mail:
tendering@consilium.europa.eu. URL: https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
I.2) Type of contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or European organisation.
General public services.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
UCA 067/08 — construction of a covered walkway and a bicycle shelter for
the Council of the European Union's crèche in Brussels.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Works.
Execution of works.
Main site or location of works: B-Bruxelles/Brussel.
NUTS code: BE10.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The contract
involves work to construct a glazed covered walkway linking 2 buildings in
the block's inner area, and a glazed bicycle shelter. It mainly involves
demolition, excavation, foundation, metal construction, roof-covering,
exterior metal joinery, glazing, wrought iron and plasterboard works,
landscaping of the surrounding areas and planting works.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 45000000, 45200000,
45261000, 45420000, 45421140, 28120000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Covered walkway with an approximate
ground surface area of 200 m².
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 6 (from the award of the contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: To be stated in the
specifications which will be sent to the candidates selected.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: To be stated in the
specifications which will be sent to the candidates selected.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Groupings are permitted to tender,
irrespective of their legal form. Groupings (or consortia) must state the
name of the company and the person responsible for the project and must
also submit a copy of the documents authorising said company or person to
tender or to sign a contract on behalf of the grouping/consortium.
Subcontracting is only permitted for activities which do not constitute a
major part of the contract. Tenderers must state clearly in their tender
which parts of the works will be subcontracted. Subcontractors must be
clearly named in tenders. All members of the groupings (or consortia),
subcontractors included, must comply with the same exclusion criteria as
tenderers.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
candidates are requested to submit an application package containing the
documents specified hereafter (points III.2.1, III.2.2 and III.2.3). All
documents submitted must be recent ones (less than 3 months old at date of
publication of this notice).
Insufficient information or missing documentation may lead to the
application being rejected.
Legal position — documents required. In accordance with Article 93 of the
Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European
Communities, candidates will be disqualified from participating in the
contract if they:
(a) are bankrupt or being wound up, if their affairs are being
administered by the court or if they have entered into an arrangement with
creditors, if they have suspended business activities, if they are the
subject of proceedings of this nature or if they are in any analogous
situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws or
regulations;
(b) have been convicted of an offence concerning their professional
conduct by a judgment which has the force of res judicata;
(c) have been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can justify;
(d) have not fulfilled their obligations to pay social-security
contributions or taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of their
country of residence or with those of the country of the contracting
authority, or those of the country where the contract is to be carried
out;
(e) have been the subject of a judgment which has the force of res
judicata for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organisation or
any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial
interests;
(f) are currently subject to an administrative penalty (exclusion from
contracts financed from the budget of the European Communities for a
maximum period of 10 years):
— either because they have been guilty, during another contract procedure,
of misrepresentation in furnishing the information required by the
contracting authority in order to take part in the contract in question,
or have not furnished said information,
— or because they have been declared to be in serious breach of contract
following another contract procedure. In addition, candidates will be
excluded from contract award if, at the time of the procurement procedure,
they:
(g) are in a situation where interests conflict;
(h) are guilty of misrepresentation in furnishing the information required
by the contracting authority in order to take part in the contract, or
have not furnished said information. Candidates may provide proof that
none of these exclusion cases applies to them by:
— either enclosing with their request to participate a solemn declaration,
duly signed and dated by a legal representative of the company, clearly
specifying that they are not in any of the situations mentioned in points
(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h). The form for this solemn
declaration can be found on the Council's web site
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu/forms.aspx). In this case, the
candidate to whom the contract will be awarded must furnish the means of
proof listed hereafter in support of his solemn declaration at the end of
the procedure (within 10 working days of notification of contract award
and before contract signature),
— or furnishing, at the request to participate stage, documentary evidence
covering points (a), (b), (d) and (e) and a solemn declaration covering
points (c), (f), (g) and (h) (for the solemn declaration form see:
http://consilium.europa.eu/callstend).
The Secretariat will accept, as sufficient proof that candidates are not
in any of the situations specified in points (a), (b) or (e), an extract
from the judicial record or, failing this, an equivalent document issued
by a judicial or administrative body in their country of origin or
provenance, showing that these requirements have been met. The Secretariat
will accept, as sufficient proof that tenderers are not in the situation
specified in point (d), a certificate issued by the appropriate body in
the country concerned. Should the document or certificate referred to
above not be issued in the country concerned, it may be replaced by a
statement under oath or, failing this, a solemn declaration made by the
interested parties before a judicial or administrative body, a notary or a
qualified professional body in their country of origin or provenance. In
accordance with national legislation in the country in which candidates
reside, the aforementioned documents apply to legal entities and/or
natural persons including, should the Secretariat deem this necessary,
company directors or any person with powers of representation,
decision-making or control in relation to the tenderers.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
1. registration form for a Call duly signed and dated by a person
legitimately authorised to represent the company. To complete this form,
candidates must register for this Call for tenders on Consilium Tendering,
the Council of the European Union tendering platform
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu).
The procedure is as follows:
(a) if you are not yet registered as a user, click on 'Register' and key
in your particulars, user name and the password of your choice;
(b) click on 'Register for a call' in the 'Actions' menu on the right hand
side of the screen;
(c) select the Call (UCA 067/08);
(d) complete the registration form for a Call by keying in details of the
company you represent;
(e) submit the form and print it.
2. Certificate of enrolment on the professional or trade register or
statement under oath or certificate in accordance with the conditions laid
down in the Member State in which they reside.
3. Candidate companies resident in Belgium must have a licence for work in
Class 4, category D or subcategory D20 or F2 (see Belgian law of 20.3.1991
and related executory decisions).
4. Candidate companies resident in another Member State must provide proof
of the following capacities (see Belgian law of 20.3.1991 and related
executory decisions):
— equity capital (sum posted to the balance sheet minus sums owed to
company associates, shareholders, administrators or managers) of at least
EUR 150 000, as proven by a report from a chartered accountant or company
auditor,
— solvency (ratio between equity capital and total assets) (a threshold of
21,7 % is required for companies subject to the simplified regime and 14,3
% for those subject to the full regime), as proven by a report from a
chartered accountant or company auditor,
— overall turnover of at least EUR 1 350 000 (excluding VAT) for 3 of the
past 8 years, for work carried out in the corresponding (sub)category (D,
D20 or F2).
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating whether requirements have been met:
1. candidate companies resident in Belgium must have a licence for work in
Class 4, category D or subcategory D20 or F2 (see Belgian law of 20.3.1991
and related executory decisions).
2. Candidate companies resident in another Member State must provide proof
of the following capacities (see Belgian law of 20.3.1991 and related
executory decisions):
— average manpower of at least 8 workers and 1 manager during any 3 half
years in the past 5 years,
— proof, in the form of certificates signed by clients, of having worked
on at least 2 projects in the past 8 years, involving work in the
corresponding (sub)category (D, D20 or F2), each of a value exceeding EUR
227 500 excluding VAT, or 3 projects of a value exceeding EUR 140 000
excluding VAT, or 4 projects of a value exceeding EUR 95 900 excluding
VAT, or 5 projects of a value exceeding EUR 70 000 excluding VAT.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria: Lowest price.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
UCA 067/08.
IV.3.2) Previous notice(s) published concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Final date for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
4.9.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or
Swedish.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No.
VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU
funds: No.
VI.3) Additional information: The attention of interested parties is
drawn to the aim of this notice, i.e. to select candidates who will have
access to the specifications and be invited to tender. They are therefore
requested to submit the information listed in point III.2. There is no
charge for taking part in this contract procedure. The specifications will
therefore be available free of charge to those candidates invited to
tender. Likewise, the act of tendering does not give tenderers the right
either to be awarded the contract or to receive any compensation for costs
incurred. The contracting authority is under no obligation to award a
contract subsequent to this notice. Tenders/requests to participate must
be sent in writing, quoting reference UCA 067/08, to the address in point
I.1. Faxed or e-mailed requests to participate must be confirmed by a
letter sent before the deadline given in point IV.3.4. Any additional
information will be available online at Consilium Tendering, the Council
of the European Union tendering platform
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu). Candidates are invited to submit
any questions regarding this invitation to tender via said platform. In
order to be able to submit questions and access the answers, candidates
must first register as users on Consilium Tendering. Candidates will be
notified of the outcome of their request to participate via said platform.
The specifications will also be available online to those candidates
selected (restricted invitation to tender procedure). In order to access
this information online, candidates registered as users must also register
for this call for tenders on the Consilium Tendering platform (see point
III.2.2.1). Registration for the call is considered as part of the request
to participate. Further information on registering as a user and for a
call, as well as the detailed instructions, can be obtained from:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg.
Tel. (352) 43 03 1. Fax (352) 43 37 66. E-mail:
ECJ.Registry@circa.europa.eu. URL: http://curia.europa.eu.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
European Ombudsman, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, BP 403, F-67001
Strasbourg Cedex. Tel. (33) 388 17 23 13. Fax (33) 388 17 90 62. E-mail:
euro-ombudsman@europarl.europa.eu. URL:
http://www.euro-ombudsman.europa.eu.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: within 2 months of notice being given to the plaintiff
or, should no notice be given, within 2 months of the date on which the
matter in question became known. A complaint made to the European
Ombudsman neither suspends this period nor opens a new period for lodging
appeals.
VI.4.3) Body from which information about the lodging of appeals may be
obtained: Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, Rue de la
Loi 175, B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62. E-mail:
tendering@consilium.europa.eu. URL: https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
Fax (32-2) 281 80 93.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 24.7.2008.

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