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HR-Zagreb: ISPA — preparation of project documentation and IPA application for water supply projects

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Croatia
City/Locality:   ZAGKREMP
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:94635-2007
Publication Date:   Apr 21, 2007
Deadline:   Jun 8, 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: 78/2007, #94635-2007
Referenced Document Number: 149860-2006
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/123852/D/SER/HR
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: ISPA.
4. Financing: ISPA 2005 HR 16 P PA 003 — IPA project pipeline preparation
(environment).
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: Preparation of project documentation and IPA
application for water supply projects, including preparatory and
feasibility study, economic cost/benefit analysis, financial analysis,
environmental impact assessment, technical studies, etc., in compliance
with relevant EU directives, and as required by the relevant IPA
regulations, for counties of Koprivnica-Krizevci and Bjelovar-Bilogora.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 408 858.
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: Subcontracting will be allowed and the total value of
the subcontracted part of the services must not exceed 30 % of the
contract value and the subcontractor must not subcontract further.
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: 10.7.2007.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: 5.12.2007.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
24 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) the total annual turnover of the candidate for the year before last
(2005) and last year (2006) must exceed at least 5 times the maximum
budget of the contract;
(b) cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the year, for year before
last (2005), last year (2006) and this year (2007), must be positive;
(c) cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year, for year before last
(2005) and last year (2006), must be positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) fields of specialisation of the candidate cover those required for
this contract as they are described under point 7 of this notice;
(b) at least 20 persons of all staff working for the candidate, during
year before last (2005) and last year (2006) in the 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 finalised at least 2 projects of a similar nature,
value and complexity during the last 3 years in the field related to this
contract. The total value of the contract should be EUR 400 000 when 100 %
carried out by the candidate, or equivalent (e.g. 50 % input on a project
with a budget of EUR 800 000);
(b) the candidate has completed at least 2 ISPA or Cohesion Fund
applications.
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 factors which will be taken into consideration during
this re-examination are:
1) comparative assessment of number of projects under criteria 3(a) and
3(b) in terms of their direct relevance for implementation of this
contract.
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: 8.6.2007 (15:00), Zagreb local
time.
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 — 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 — 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: 26.7.2006.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 1267/1999 of 21.6.1999, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2112/2005 of 21.11.2005.
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