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HR-Zagreb: Phare — institutional building and implementation of Natura 2000 in Croatia

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Croatia
City/Locality:   ZAGKREMP
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:88372-2007
Publication Date:   Apr 14, 2007
Deadline:   May 20, 2007
Buyer:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
ZAGREB
Croatia

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 0708 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 73/2007, #88372-2007
Referenced Document Number: 113845-2006
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Croatia
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/123526/D/SER/HR
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Phare 2005.
4. Financing: Croatia 2005 Phare national programme.
5. Contracting authority: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia
(Central Finance and Contracting Unit).
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The purpose of this contract is to fulfil the
basic requirements needed for quality development and implementation of
nature protection policy in Croatia, in accordance both with national
legislation and the EU environmental acquis. It is expected to complete
Natura 2000 proposal, to prepare management plan for Vransko Lake Nature
Park — candidate natura 2000 site, to start implementation of Article 6(1)
of the Habitat Directive (HD), to establish capacity for implementation of
Article 6(3) and (4) of the HD and to raise public awareness resulting
from related parts of each project component.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 327 000.
10. Scope for additional services: Not applicable.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open to all legal persons of the EU
Member States and the countries and territories of the regions covered
and/or authorised by the Regulations on access to Community external
assistance and other specific instruments applicable to the programme
under which the contract is financed (see also point 30 below).
Participation of natural persons is directly governed by the specific
instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is
financed.
12. Candidature: All eligible natural and legal persons (as per point 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
members) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per point
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 whatever the form of participation (as an
individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting
an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more
than 1 application, all applications in which that person has participated
will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the shortlisted application
forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Shortlisted
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 signed declaration, included in the standard application
form, 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 for
EC external actions.
16. Subcontracting: Not applicable.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: 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: May 2007.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: September 2007.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
14 months.
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 capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) total annual turnover of candidate for the year before last year must
equal or exceed EUR 1 000 000;
(b) the cash and cash equivalents of candidate at the beginning of the
year for the year before last, last year and this year are positive;
(c) the cash and cash equivalents of candidate at the end of the year for
the year before last and last year shall be positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) at least 6 staff currently working for the candidate in the years
2005, 2006 and 2007 are working in the fields related to this contract
(e.g. implementation of Natura 2000, approximation of EU legislation,
management of nature protected areas);
(b) 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):
(a) the candidate has worked successfully on at least 2 technical
assistance projects in the the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 in either any of
the EU Member States and/or Cards/Phare countries with a budget not below
EUR 500 000 when 100 % carried out by the candidate, or equivalent (e.g.
50 % input on a project with a budget of around EUR 1 000 000);
(b) the candidate must have been involved over the aforementioned 3 years
in projects belonging to the fields related to this contract:
1. implementation of Natura 2000 (at least 1 project);
2. EU legislation approximation (at least 1 project);
3. management of nature protected areas.
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.
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 factor which will be taken into consideration during
this re-examination is the total number of similar projects implemented in
2004, 2005 and 2006 following the condition 3(b).
22. Award criteria: As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the
letter of invitation to tender which will be sent to shortlisted
candidates.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 20.5.2007 (16:00), Zagreb local
time at the contracting authority premises (address).
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 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:
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, Department for Financing
EU Assistance Programmes and projects, Central Finance and Contracting
Unit (CFCU), (Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Uprava za
financiranje programa i projekata pomoći EU — Središnja jedinica za
financiranje i ugovaranje — SJFU), Katančićeva 5, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia,
— or hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, Department for Financing
EU Assistance Programmes and projects, Central Finance and Contracting
Unit (CFCU), (Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Uprava za
financiranje programa i projekata pomoći EU — Središnja jedinica za
financiranje i ugovaranje — SJFU), Katančićeva 5, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
The contract title and the publication reference (see point 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.
26. Alteration or withdrawal of applications: Candidates may alter or
withdraw their applications by written notification prior to the deadline
for submission of tenders. No application may be altered after this
deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and
submitted in accordance with point 25. The outer envelope (and the
relevant inner envelope) must be marked 'Alteration' or 'Withdrawal' as
appropriate.
27. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
28. Additional information: Not applicable.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 8.6.2006.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3906/89 of 18.12.1989, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of 20.12.2004.
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