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EG-Cairo: MEDA — IT equipment supply and services for the Customs Administration

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General Information
Country:   Egypt
City/Locality:   IL CAIRO
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:61822-2006
Publication Date:   Apr 4, 2006
Deadline:   Apr 19, 2006
Buyer:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
IL CAIRO
Egypt

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Notice Type: 0708 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 60/2006, #61822-2006
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Arab Republic of Egypt
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/122369/D/S/EG
2. Procedure: Open.
3. Programme: MEDA.
4. Financing: Budget line BGUE-B2006-19.080201-C8-AIDCO.
5. Contracting authority: Ministry of Finance on behalf of the Government
of Egypt.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: The contract (lot 1) is for the
procurement, installation, customising, testing and commissioning,
start-up training, maintenance and after-sales service of IT equipment and
software to provide analysis and interpretative capabilities for the new
customs risk management system, post clearance controls and audit systems,
and (lot 2) supply of IT equipment etc for the new National Customs
Training Institute in Alexandria.
7. Number and titles of lots: Lot 1: the procurement, installation,
customising, testing and commissioning, start-up training, maintenance and
after-sales service of IT equipment and data warehouse software (1 data
warehouse cluster, 4 servers, 117 pc's, 50 notebooks, 8 switches, 2 plasma
screens, 7 laser printers, 7 flatbed scanners for user networks at 9
locations) to provide analysis and interpretative capabilities for the new
customs risk management system, post clearance controls and audit systems.
Lot 2: the procurement, installation, customising, testing and
commissioning, start-up training, maintenance and after-sales service of
IT equipment etc (1 server, video conferencing system, 100 pc's, 10
notebooks, 2 multifunction printers, 1 colour laser printer, 10 datashow
projectors, 25 headphone sets, 1 scanner, antivirus software for 1 + 110
pc's, 41 copies of Business Software Package, 1 firewall, 5 switches, 1
simultaneous interpretation system) for the new National Customs Training
Institute in Alexandria.
Terms of participation
8. Eligibility and rules of origin: Participation is open on equal terms
to all 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. 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 15
000 for lot 1 and EUR 3 000 for lot 2 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: An optional information
meeting will be held 27.4.2006 (11:00), local time, at the Ministry of
Finance Towers, Tower 3, 3rd Floor, Ramses Street Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
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 implementation period shall run from
the commencement date of the contract to 150 days following provisional
acceptance.
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 EUR 5 000 000
in the past 3 years.
2)Professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. points 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract).
(a) tenderer must have a minimum of 20 full-time 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 4 contracts with a
budget of at least that of this contract in the past 3 years;
(b) The tenderer has 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. 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: Lowest price among technically compliant offers.
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 eutender@mof.gov.eg or Iman ElKouny (Executive Consultant, IT),
Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 3, 5th Floor, Ramses Street Extension,
Cairo, Egypt (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: 29.5.2006 (12:00), local time.
At Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 2, 16th Floor,
Ramses Street Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 29.5.2006 (13:00), local time.
At Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 3, 3rd Floor, Ramses Street
Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
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 1488/96 (MEDA) as amended by
No 2698/2000.



Update: Apr 4, 2006

Notice Type: 0708 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 65/2006, #67040-2006
Referenced Document Number: 61822-2006
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Arab Republic of Egypt
Corrigendum
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 60 of
28.3.2006, restricted procedure, 61822-2006)
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 2, 16th Floor,
Ramses Street Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/122369/D/S/EG
for: 13. Information meeting and/or site visit:
An optional information meeting will be held 27.4.2006 (11:00), local
time, at the Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 3, 3rd Floor, Ramses Street
Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
read: 13. Information meeting and/or site visit:
An optional information meeting will be held 2.5.2006 (11:00), local time,
at the Ministry of Finance Towers, Tower 3, 3rd Floor, Ramses Street
Extension, Cairo, Egypt.
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