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HR-Zagreb: Cards - investment for national measurement laboratories (electrical quantities, length, density)

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HR-Zagreb: Cards - investment for national measurement laboratories (electrical quantities, length, density)

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General Information

Country:    Croatia
Deadline for Responses:   May 8, 2006
Regulation of Procurement:   PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication:   #45762-2006 in 44/ issue
Publication Date:   Mar 4, 2006
Referenced Document Number:   2004-182415
Awarding Authority:   DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, ZAGREB
Contract Nature:   Supply contract
Procedure Type:   Open procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Other
Awarding Criteria:   Other
Original Language(s):   English

Goods, Works and Services
Commodities:  

Summary
Croatia
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/120506/C/S/HR
2. Procedure: Open.
3. Programme: Cards.
4. Financing: Budget article 22 05 01.
5. Contracting authority: European Commission, on behalf of the
beneficiary country, or the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of
Croatia, Central Finance and Contracting Unit, if accredited at the
moment of contract signature.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: The purpose of this project is to supply
calibration and testing laboratories with equipment and relevant
measurement standards so they can perform testing and certification in
accordance with relevant EU legislation.
7. Number and titles of lots: Lot 1 - equipment for solid density
determination;
Lot 2 - equipment for roughness determination;
Lot 3 - measuring equipment for electrical quantities (thermoresistance).
Terms of participation
8. Eligibility and rules of origin: Participation is open on equal terms
to all natural and legal persons participating either individually or in
a grouping (consortium) of tenderers of the Member States and the
countries and territories of the regions covered and/or authorised by the
regulation or other specific instruments applicable to the programme
under which the contract is financed (see also point 22 below) and the
regulations on access to Community external assistance. All goods
supplied under this contract must originate in these countries.
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 2
000 for lot 1, EUR 1 500 for lot 2 and EUR 1 200 for lot 3 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 delivery period is up to 90 days from
the signature of the contract by both parties.
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. point 3 of
the tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the average annual turnover of the tenderer must exceed his financial
proposal for this tender.
2) Professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. points 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) has a minimum of 5 permanent staff employed.
3) Technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. points 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the tenderer has successfully completed at least 1 contract with a
budget of at least that of his financial proposal for this tender in the
past 3 years;
(b) the tenderer has worked successfully on at least 1 project 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. Under the same conditions, a consortium of
economic operators may rely on the capacities of members of the
consortium or of other entities.
17. Award criteria: Price.
Tendering
18. How to obtain the tender dossier: The tender dossier is available
from the following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
tender/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 delegation-croatia-tenders@cec.eu.int or mail: Delegation of
the European Commission to the Republic of Croatia, Masarykova 1, 10000
Zagreb, Croatia, or by fax (385-1) 489 65 55 (mentioning the publication
reference shown in point 1) at least 21 days before the deadline for
submission of tenders given in point 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://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm.
19. Deadline for submission of tenders: 8.5.2006 (10:00), Central
European Time at the premises of the Delegation of the European
Commission to the Republic of Croatia, Masarykova 1, 10000 Zagreb,
Croatia.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 8.5.2006 (11:00), Central European Time at
the premises of the Delegation of the European Commission to the Republic
of Croatia, Masarykova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
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, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of 20.12.2004.