TR-Ankara: technical assistance for implementation of human resources development operational programme

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Turkey
City/Locality:   ANKARA
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:299538-2009
Publication Date:   Oct 29, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 2, 2009
Buyer:   CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTS UNIT (CFCU)
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTS UNIT (CFCU)
ANKARA  
Turkey

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 0708 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 209/2009, #299538-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

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Turkey (TR)
Service procurement notice
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
Main object:
71356200 Technical assistance services
Additional objects:
80500000 Training services
48810000 Information systems
79420000 Management-related services
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/128482/D/SER/TR.
Internet address:
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.cfcu.gov.tr
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Multi-annual operational programme for 'Human Resources
Development' for Community assistance from the Instrument of Pre-Accession
Assistance (IPA) for the Human Resources Development Component in Turkey.
4. Financing: IPA budget item 04.0601 of the general budget of the EC (85
%) and national contribution (15 %).
5. Contracting authority: The beneficiary: The Operating Structure (the
Ministry of Labour and Social Security).
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The consultant will realise the provision of
training programmes and consultancy for the operation of the Operating
Structure (the Ministry of Labour and Social Security) in different steps
of the IPA process for effective management and implementation of the
Human Resources Development Operational Programme (HRD OP) in terms of
project selection and assessment, programming and management,
monitoring-evaluation and control, establishment and maintenance of
ICT-MIS (Information and Communication Technologies — Management
Information System) and assistance for accreditation process and
transition from decentralised management with 'ex-ante' controls of
European Commission to decentralised management without 'ex-ante'
controls.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: The contract is divided into lots: no, 1
lot only.
9. Budget: Maximum budget: 2 950 000 EUR.
10. Scope for additional services: The contracting authority may, at its
own discretion, extend the project in duration and/or scope, subject to
the availability of funding, up to a maximum not exceeding the length and
value of the initial contract. Any extension of the contract would be
subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open to all legal persons
(participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of
candidates) which are established in a Member State of the European Union
or in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by
the specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the
contract is financed (see also item 29 below). Participation is also open
to international organisations. The participation of natural persons is
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 item 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 item
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 is allowed.
Maximum percentage of the contract value which may be subcontracted — 30
%.
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. If the number of eligible
candidates meeting the selection criteria is less than the minimum of 4,
the contracting authority may invite the candidates who satisfy the
criteria to submit a tender.
Provisional timetable
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: 22.2.2010.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: 20.7.2010.
20. Initial period of implementation of tasks: Duration in months: 36.
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: Same criteria for legal and natural person.
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:
In the case of the applicant being a public body equivalent information
should be provided:
1. the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 1 400 000 EUR
for the last 2 years (2007, 2008). For the companies which have been
operational for less than 2 years, they will have to demonstrate that
their turnovers and operational cash flows for their operational periods
were positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
1. at least 5 staff are currently working in this year (2009) for the
applicant in fields related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
1. the candidate has successfully completed at least 1 technical
assistance project with a minimum budget of 1 000 000 EUR (proportion
carried out by the candidate) during the past 3 years (2006, 2007, 2008)
and this year (2009) until the date of submission deadline of this
application;
2. the candidate has successfully completed at least 1 technical
assistance project with a minimum budget of 500 000 EUR (proportion
carried out by the candidate) in the field of capacity/institutional
building project including training and/or management of EU funds in the
candidate countries and/or EU Member States during the past 3 years (2006,
2007, 2008) and this year (2009) until the date of submission deadline of
this application.
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. Such entities, for instance the parent company of the economic
operator, must respect the same rules of eligibility and notably that of
nationality, as the economic operator.
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:
the number of occurrences of references satisfying technical capacity
21.3.2. In case of equality between the applicants as a result of the
first re-examination, a second criterion will be applied to the tenderers
on equal terms, which is the cumulative value of references (proportion
carried out by consortium) satisfying technical capacity 21.3.2.
22. Award criteria: Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 2.12.2009 (17:00), 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, the format and instructions
of which must be strictly observed. The application form is available at
the following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/
procedures/implementation/services/index_en.htm
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
exclusively to the contracting authority in the following language —
English:
— either by recorded delivery (official postal service) to:
Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU), attention: Mr Muhsin Altun,
Eskişehir Yolu 4.km 2. Cad. (Halkbank Kampüsü) No: 63 C-Blok, 06580
Söğütözü, Ankara, TURKEY,
— or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
attention: Mr Muhsin Altun. Tel. +90 3122954900.
As in abovementioned address.
The contract title and the publication reference (see item 1 above) must
be clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must 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 applications. No applications may be altered after this
deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and
submitted in accordance with item 25. The outer envelope (and the relevant
inner envelope if used) 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. Date of publication of contract forecast notice: Date: 5.5.2009.
29. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 of 17.7.2006
establishing an instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA) — (OJ L 210,
31.7.2006, p. 82).
30. Additional information
31. Date of dispatch of this notice: 19.10.2009.
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