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AF-Kabul: DCI — governance for Afghan public health sector: support to the General Directorate for Pharmaceutical Affairs of MoPH

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Afghanistan
City/Locality:   KABUL
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:190293-2010
Publication Date:   Jul 1, 2010
Deadline:   Aug 5, 2010
Buyer:   DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO AFGHANISTAN
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO AFGHANISTAN
KABUL
Afghanistan
Web Site:   https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=1243315998832

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Notice type: AP302 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 125/2010, #190293-2010
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

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Location: Asia — Afghanistan (AF)
Service procurement notice
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
Main object:
71356200 Technical assistance services
1. Publication reference:
EuropeAid/128160/SER/C/AF.
Internet address:
General address of the contracting authority:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?ADSSChck=1243315998832&do=publi.welcome&userlanguage=en
2. Procedure:
Restricted.
3. Programme:
DCI.
4. Financing:
Financing agreement.
5. Contracting authority:
European Union, represented by the European Commission on behalf of and
for the account of the beneficiary countries.
6. Nature of contract:
Fee-based.
7. Contract description:
The project has the scope of assisting the General Directorate for
Pharmaceutical Affairs (GDPA) in better defining and increasing its
stewardship role for the implementation and oversight of the functions
under its guidance. Good governance issues with a long-term vision have to
be built in.
The state of the play of the sub-sector may seem discouraging, since
structural gaps along with a general lack of investments exist. It is thus
essential to contribute to build in the GDPA the core functions and
standard operating procedures for enabling the sub-sector to develop
harmoniously with the whole Afghan public health system.
The consultant will be in support of the GDPA with the general task of
capacity development of this GD. The attitude and methodology that is
expected has to be as close as possible to the definition of capacity
development given by UNDP: 'the process by which individuals,
organisations, institutions and societies develop abilities (individually
and collectively) to perform functions, solve problems and set and achieve
objectives'. It is not expected that the consultant acts 'instead of' but
rather that it acts 'in support of'.
8. Numbers and titles of lots:
The contract is divided into lots: No, 1 lot only.
9. Budget:
Maximum budget: 1 300 000 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.
In addition, Australia is granted reciprocal access to this project.
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 EU external actions'.
16. Subcontracting:
Subcontracting is allowed.
Maximum percentage of the contract value which may be subcontracted — 15
%.
Activities which may be subcontracted: training, subsector analysis
requiring particular expertise.
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:
10.8.2010.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract:
21.12.2010.
20. Initial period of implementation of tasks:
Duration in months: 16.
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 866 000 EUR;
2. the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
1. either 20 % of staff, or 20 staff currently work for the applicant in
fields related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
1. the candidate has worked successfully on at least 3 projects of a value
of minimum 400 000 EUR entailing long-term assistance 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. 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:
1) regional experience;
2) experience in reconstruction/post-conflict countries/fragile states.
22. Award criteria:
Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications:
5.8.2010 (16:00), 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:
Delegation of the European Union to Afghanistan, Charahi Sedarat, opposite
Ministry of Interior, Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, AFGHANISTAN,
— or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
attention: Finance and Contracts — Tenders.
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
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 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:
25.2.2009.
29. Legal basis:
Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 18.12.2006 establishing a financing instrument for development
cooperation (DCI)[1]
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:378:0041:0071:EN:PDF
30. Additional information:
Please note that the postal service does not work properly within
Afghanistan. Therefore please submit the offer either by hand delivery or
private courier service only.
31. Date of dispatch of this notice:
21.6.2010.
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