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HR-Zagreb: Phare — Croatian positioning service (CROPOS) network establishment

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Croatia
City/Locality:   ZAGKREMP
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:105874-2007
Publication Date:   May 5, 2007
Deadline:   Jul 16, 2007
Buyer:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
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: 87/2007, #105874-2007
Referenced Document Number: 121875-2006
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location country: Republic of Croatia
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/123601/D/SUP/HR
2. Procedure: Open.
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 specifications
6. Description of the contract: Establishment of a national global
navigation satellite system service CROPOS. CROPOS system consists of 30
reference stations and 1 control centre. Technical equipment consists of
GPS receivers, GPS antennas, servers, back-up storage, UPS, software
system with GPS software and software for data transfer and data
distribution. Also, the subject of contract shall be delivery and
installation of supplies and special software as well as education
(training) of maintenance personnel and support.
7. Number and titles of lots: Not divided into lots.
Terms of participation
8. Eligibility and rules of origin: Participation is open 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 Regulations on access to
Community external assistance (Council Regulation (EEC) No 3906/89 of
18.12.1989, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2257/2004 of 20.12.2004) and other
specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract
is financed (see also point 22 below). All goods supplied under this
contract must originate in 1 or more of 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 contract procedures for EC external actions.
10. Number of tenders: Tenderers may submit only 1 tender. Only a
complete tender will be considered. 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 25
000 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.
The successful tenderer has to include in his proposal an adequate
after-sales service during the 3 years (in line with provisions of Article
32 of the Special Conditions of the contract). Such services will include
any intervention and make available the necessary spare parts through a
commercial channel with the manufacturer, for the period of 3 years
counting from the date of issue of the certificate of provisional
acceptance. 15% of the performance guarantee will be assigned to this
activity.
13. Information meeting and/or site visit: An optional information
meeting for the tenderers is planned to take place at Ministry of Finance,
Katančićeva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, on 20.6.2007 (10:00),
CET. The information meeting is necessary to provide additional
information to tenderers about CROPOS system and its functionality.
An optional information site visit for tenderers is planned to take place
at State Geodetic Administration, Gruška 20, 10000 Zagreb, Republic of
Croatia, on 21.6.2007 (10:00), CET (CROPOS control centre) and Cadastral
Office Čakovec, R. Boškovića 2, 40000 Čakovec, Republic of Croatia, on
21.6.2007 (14:00), CET (reference station location). The information site
visit is necessary to provide additional information about finished works
e.g. antenna carrier installation, antenna cable trail installation and
communication equipment.
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 will last 405
days starting from the day of issuance of the commencement order and
ending on the day of issuance of the provisional acceptance certificate.
The implementation period includes a delivery period of 120 days.
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. item 3 of
the tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the average annual turnover of the tenderer for the last year (2006)
must exceed the submitted financial proposal;
(b) the cash and cash equivalents of tenderer at the beginning of this
year, last year and year before (2007, 2006, 2005) are positive;
(c) the cash and cash equivalents of tenderer at the end of last year and
year before last (2006, 2005) are positive.
2) Technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
(a) the tenderer has successfully completed at least 1 contract regarding
completion of GNSS networking system of reference stations with a similar
configuration and functionality as CROPOS system in the past 5 years. The
references provided must include the following information:
— country,
— year of installation,
— number of installed GNSS reference stations (network size),
— type of GNSS equipment (receiver, antenna),
— software (networking software, type and versions),
— type of services provided by system (e.g. real-time correction data and
its procedures, RINEX data, virtual RINEX data).
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 from the following address: http://cfcu.mfin.hr.
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 cfcu@mfin.hr or mail:
Ministry of Finance, Department for Financing EU Assistance Programmes and
Projects – CFCU, Katančićeva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia (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 web site at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm.
19. Deadline for submission of tenders: 16.7.2007 (16:00), CET at the
premises of the Ministry of Finance, Katančićeva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 17.7.2007 (10:00), CET at the premises of the
Ministry of Finance, Katančićeva 5, 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 (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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