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HR-Zagreb: Cards - upgrading of VET schools - establishing centres of excellence

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HR-Zagreb: Cards - upgrading of VET schools - establishing centres of excellence

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General Information

Country:    Croatia
Deadline for Responses:   Jul 29, 2005
Regulation of Procurement:   PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication:   #114234-2005 in 116 issue
Publication Date:   Jun 17, 2005
Awarding Authority:   THE DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, ZAGREB
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Other
Awarding Criteria:   Other
Original Language(s):   English

Goods, Works and Services
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Summary
Croatia
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EUROPEAID/121366/C/SV/HR
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Cards 2003.
4. Financing: Budget article 22 05 01.
5. Contracting authority: The Delegation of the European Commission to
the Republic of Croatia, on behalf of the beneficiary country, or the
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, Central Finance and
Contracting Unit, if accredited at the moment of contract signature,
Zagreb, Croatia.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The project will enhance the modernisation of
the Croatian VET system with a view to better respond to the changing
needs of the Croatian economy, to combat unemployment, especially youth
unemployment, and to comply with European standards and the relevant
'acquis' in the field.
The consultant will be asked to work along the following lines:
institutionalisation of a new pre-service higher education programme for
VET teachers and trainers; extension of the work done under Cards 2002
funding for sector working groups in order to cover other sectors and
profiles within the agreed national qualifications, curriculum and
assessment frameworks; and furtherance of change and development within
selected vocational schools who will introduce new curricula.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 250 000.
10. Scope for additional services: Not applicable.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and
legal persons of the EU Member States, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania,
Serbia and Montenegro and Turkey.
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
partners) 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 one application can be
submitted by a natural or legal person (including legal persons within
the same legal group) whatever the form of participation (as an
individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium
submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person
(including legal persons within the same legal group) submits more than
one application, all applications in which that person (and legal persons
within the same legal group) 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 statement 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 financed from the general budget of the European
Communities in the context of external actions (available from the
following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
index_en.htm).
16. Subcontracting: Not applicable.
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: August 2005.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: November 2005.
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 standing of candidate:
a. total annual revenue of candidate(s) (consortium) of at least 2 times
of the maximum budget of the contract for the year before last and last
year;
b. the cash and cash equivalents of candidate(s) (consortium) at the
beginning of the year before last, last year and this year (2005) are
positive;
c. the cash and cash equivalents of candidate(s) (consortium) at the end
of the year before last and last year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
a. at least 25 % of all staff working for the candidate in 2004 and 2005
are permanent staff;
b. at least 20 people working for the candidate in 2004 and 2005 in
fields related to this contract are permanent staff.
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
a. the candidate must have managed at least one technical assistance
project over the last three years (2002, 2003 & 2004) in either any of
the EU Member States or any of the countries eligible for Phare or Cards
programmes. Such a project must have been of a similar size (in any case
not below EUR 1 000 000) and scope to this one (technical assistance in
human capital development). The contribution of the candidate in such a
project budget must have been at least 50 %);
b. the candidate(s) must have been involved over the aforementioned last
three years in projects providing the following services:
advice in VET policy;
institutional building;
design of educational programmes for VET teachers;
design of VET curricula, and
monitoring of grant schemes under EC standards.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the
relative strengths and weaknesses of these candidates will be re-examined
to identify the 8 best applications for the tender procedure. For that
possible re-examination, the Evaluation Committee will give preference to
those candidates with the highest number of permanent staff working in
2004 in fields related to 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: Friday, 29.7.2005 (14:00)
Zagreb 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 application which does not observe these provisions will be
automatically eliminated. 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: Delegation of
the European Commission, Masarykova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Delegation of the European Commission, Masarykova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb,
Croatia.
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. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information: Not applicable.
28. Date of publication of contract forecast: 16.4.2005.
29. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5.12.2000, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of 20.12.2004.