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TR-Ankara: IPA — technical assistance and supervision for Erzurum water and waste water project

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   Turkey
City/Locality:   ANKARA
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:260962-2010
Publication Date:   Sep 3, 2010
Deadline:   Oct 4, 2010
Buyer:   CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTS UNIT (CFCU)
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTS UNIT (CFCU)
ANKARA
Turkey
Web Site:   http://www.cfcu.gov.tr

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice type: AP302 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 171/2010, #260962-2010
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

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Location: Turkey (TR)
Service procurement notice
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
Main object:
71520000 Construction supervision services
Additional object(s):
71356200 Technical assistance services
90713100 Consulting services for water-supply and waste-water other than
for construction
1. Publication reference:
EuropeAid/129942/D/SER/TR.
Internet address:
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.cfcu.gov.tr
2. Procedure:
Restricted.
3. Programme:
IPA.
4. Financing:
IPA budget item 13 05 02 of the general budget of the EU and national
contribution.
5. Contracting authority:
Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU).
6. Nature of contract:
Fee-based.
7. Contract description:
The consultant is expected to provide:
— supervision of construction of WWTP (waste water treatment plant) and
additional waste water collectors and rehabilitation of the existing
collector and network system,
— technical assistance for the rehabilitation of existing water
distribution system, including:
i) design and preparation of tender documents based on FIDIC Red Book;
ii) determination of water losses and planning their maintenance,
— modernisation of ESKİ (Erzurum water and sewerage administration),
— capacity building of ESKİ,
— assistance during the tendering and contracting stages of supply
contract.
8. Numbers and titles of lots:
The contract is divided into lots: No, 1 lot only.
9. Budget:
Maximum budget: 2 900 000 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 EU 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:
24.11.2010.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract:
7.5.2010.
20. Initial period of implementation of tasks:
Duration in months: 45.
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 750 000 EUR
for the last 3 years (2007, 2008 and 2009).
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
1. at least 10 staff (this year 2010) currently work for the candidate in
fields related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
1. the candidate must have completed at least 1 service contract (i.e.
technical assistance, supervision services, etc.) of any kind in the
environment sector with a minimum value of 2 900 000 EUR (proportion
carried out by the candidate) in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and this year
(2010) until the submission deadline of this application;
2. the candidate must have completed at least 1 supervision contract of
design-built construction of waste water treatment plant (according to the
FIDIC conditions of contract) serving for a population of a minimum of 350
000 persons in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and this year (2010) until the
submission deadline of this application;
3. the candidate must have completed at least 1 technical assistance
contract with a minimum value of 300 000 EUR (proportion carried out by
the candidate) including preparation of tender documents, feasibility
reports and design of water supply and/or sewerage system in the years
2007, 2008, 2009 and this year (2010) until the 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 satisfying technical capacity criterion of
21–3.2;
in case the number of occurrences satisfying technical capacity criterion
of 21–3.2 are equal to each other, the cumulative contract value of
references (proportion carried out by consortium) satisfying technical
capacity criterion 21–3.3 of the applicants whose number of occurrences
are equal shall be taken into consideration.
22. Award criteria:
Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications:
4.10.2010 (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,
06580Söğütözü, 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 (PAO-CFCU Director). 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
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:
Date: 16.4.2010.
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:
Signature of this contract is subject to the signature, by the European
Commission, of the Project Bilateral Agreement Decision on the project.
In case of non-contracting of work contract, the consultant shall be
responsible only for the technical assistance activities and the contract
amount shall be revised accordingly.
Following the accreditation and conferral of management powers in line
with Articles 13 and 14 of the Commission Regulation No 718/2007, IPA
Coordination and Implementation Centre (IPA CIC) under the MoEF, the
operating structure, undertakes all the contractual responsibilities as
the contracting authority in place of the CFCU.
In case the accreditation is completed before the award of contract, the
contract will then be signed with the IPA CIC. Should the accreditation
process be finalised following the signature of the contract, the
contracting authority, without the prior consent of the
consultant/contractor, may assign the contract to the IPA CIC and this
amendment shall take the form of an addendum to the contract.
31. Date of dispatch of this notice:
24.8.2010.
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