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TZ-Iringa: EDF - urban water supply Iringa phase II

0708 - Prequalification notices

General Information

Country:    Tanzania
Deadline for Responses:   Jul 4, 2005
Regulation of Procurement:   External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication:   #100234-2005 in 101 issue
Publication Date:   May 27, 2005
Awarding Authority:   IRINGA URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE AUTHORITY (IRUWASA), IRINGA
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Global tender
Awarding Criteria:   Not defined
Original Language(s):   English

Goods, Works and Services
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Summary
Iringa, Tanzania
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/121173/D/SV/TZ
2. Procedure: Restricted with pre-qualification.
3. Programme: EDF 9.
4. Financing: Co-financed by the 6th and 7th EDF and the Federal
Republic of Germany.
5. Contracting authority: Iringa Urban Water Supply and Sewerage
Authority (IRUWASA), Iringa, Tanzania.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: Assistance to the Iringa Urban Water Supply and
Sewerage Authority (IRUWASA) for the planning and implementation of the
project 'Urban Water Supply Iringa' forming part of the EU/KfW
co-financed 'Water supply programme regional centres, phase II'. The
project comprises the rehabilitation and extension of the water supply
and sewerage systems in Iringa (109 632 inhabitants).
Services required:
(1) inventory and assessment of the existing water supply and sewerage
systems, preparation of detailed design and tender documents for the
rehabilitation and extension works, support of the UWSA in construction
supervision, monitoring of the effects of the investment measures;
(2) Capacity building of the UWSA, including technical and commercial
training.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: 1.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1,7 million (design + supervision).
10. Scope for additional services
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and
legal persons of the EU Member States and ACP States signatories to the
Lomé IV Convention.
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
partners) 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 (including legal persons within the same
legal group), whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal
entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an
application). In the event that a natural or legal person (including
legal persons within the same legal group) submits more than 1
application, all applications in which that person (and legal persons
within the same legal group) has participated will be excluded.
14. Short-list alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed
application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure.
Short-listed 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 statement 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 financed from the 9th EDF (available from following
Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm).
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting will be allowed to a maximum
percentage of 30 % of the contract value.
17. Number of candidates to be short-listed: On the basis of the
applications received, at least 4 and at most 8 candidates will be
invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract.
Provisional timetable
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: July 2005.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: October 2005.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
Design phase: 6 months. Provisional supervision of works (24 months) and
1-year warranty period ending mid-2010.
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 standing of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
- the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 5 times the
annualised maximum budget of the contract (i.e. the maximum budget stated
in the procurement notice divided by the initial contract duration in
years, where this exceeds 1 year);
- the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
- has a professional certificate appropriate to this contract (such as
civil engineering or equivalent);
- at least 10 staff currently working for the applicant in fields related
to this contract; and
- at least 20 % of all staff working for the candidate this year in
fields related to this contract are permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
- the candidate has worked successfully on at least 5 similar projects in
Africa, and preferably in East Africa, with a budget of at least that of
this contract in fields related to this contract in the past 3 years.
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 factors, which will be taken into consideration
during this re-examination are CVs of Design Team and Team Leader during
supervision of works.
22. Award criteria: As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the
letter of invitation to tender which will be sent to short-listed
candidates.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 4.7.2005 (12.00) (local).
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://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
Any application which does not observe these provisions will be
automatically eliminated. 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: Iringa Urban
Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (IRUWASA), PO Box 570, Iringa,
Tanzania.
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.
Copies of the application should be sent to:
KfW Development Bank, Office Dar es Salaam, PO Box 1519, Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, tel.: (255-22) 212 81 89, fax: (255-22) 212 81 92,
and
EU Delegation Tanzania, PO Box 9514, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, tel.:
(255-22) 211 74 73, fax: (255-22) 211 32 77.
26. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information: Suspension clause
The project is waiting for EC approval of financing. Until then, the
contracting authority reserves the right to suspend the tendering
process. No compensation will be given to tenderers.
28. Date of publication of contract forecast: 16.3.2005.
29. Legal basis: ACP-EC Partnership Agreement signed at Cotonou on
23.6.2000. Decision No 2/2002 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers
published in OJ L 320 of 23.11.2002.








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