SERVICE PROCUREMENT NOTICE
“Development of
Romania
1. Publication reference
EUROPEAID/121477/D/SV/RO
2. Procedure
Restricted
tender
3. Programme
2004 - Phare National Programme for
4. Financing
PHARE 2004/ 016 – 772.03.03
5. Contracting Authority
Central
Finance and Contracting Unit, Ministry of Public Finance
44,
Phone:
(0040 21) 326.55.55 switchboard
Fax:
(0040 21) 326.87.30
e-mail: carmenrosu@cfcu.ro
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6.
Nature of contract
Fee - based
7. Contract description
The proposed project aims to
strengthen institutional capacity and capabilities to implement and enforce the
requirements of WFD in the Ialomita-Buzau
River basin by facilitating the elaboration of the river
basin management plan and related action programmes.
The Technical Assistance (TA)
is conceived to cover two specific objectives:
7.1. Development of the River Basin Management Plan for the Ialomita-Buzau
river basin including: a programme of measures for reaching the good status for
groundwaters and for reaching the good status and the good ecological potential
for surface waters, including a plan for the river restoration.
7.2. Ensuring
public and stakeholders participation in the decision making process in the development of
the Ialomita-Buzau River Basin Management Plan.
8. Numbers and
titles of lots
N/A
9. Maximum budget
EUR 900,000
10. Scope for additional services
N/A
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
11. Eligibility
Participation
is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons of the Member States
and the countries and territories of the regions covered and/or authorized by
the Regulation or other specific instruments applicable to the programme under
which the contract is financed (see also point 29 below).
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
Candidates
(including firms within the same legal group, other members of the same
consortium, and sub-contractors) should submit only one application for the
current contract, whatever the
form of participation (as an individual candidate, or as leader or partner of a
consortium candidate). In the event that
a natural and legal person submits more than one 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 short-listed application forms will be
excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Short-listed
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 provide
a statement confirming that they are not in any of the situations described 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 following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm).
16. Sub-contracting
Sub-contracting
is allowed in this tender. The value of the subcontracted part of the services
may not exceed 30% of the contract value.
17. Number of candidates to be short-listed
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
May 2006
19. Provisional start date of the contract
July 2006
20.
Initial contract duration and possible extension
The Contract duration is 18 calendar 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(s) [based
on item 3 of the application form]
a)
The
average annual turnover of the candidate (individual company or
JV/consortium
altogether) over the previous 3 (three) years (2002, 2003, 2004)
must be at least 1 (one) million EUR;
b) The
average annual operating profit of the candidate (individual company or
JV/consortium
altogether) over the previous 3 (three) years (2002, 2003, 2004) must be positive.
2)
Professional capacity of candidate(s)
[based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form]
(a) The candidate (individual company or JV/ consortium altogether) should have at least 10
permanent
staff currently working in the areas covered by the contract.
(b) The candidate (individual
company or JV/ consortium altogether) will need to demonstrate
relevant experience in the field of water management projects especially in
areas to cover objectives 7.1 and 7.2.
3)
Technical capacity of candidate(s) [based on items 5 and 6 of the application
form]
(a) The candidate (individual company or JV/consortium members
altogether) has implemented (started and completed) in the last 5 (five) years (2001 onwards)
at least one project regarding assistance in designing River Basin Management
Plan consistent with the contract objective as
described at point 7.1, with a share of
participation of at least 400.000 Euro.
(b)
The candidate
(individual company or JV/consortium members altogether) has implemented (started and completed) in the last 5 (five) years (2001 onwards ) at
least one project in fields related to contract description point 7.2 (training,
public and stakeholders participation in the River Basin management plan
development) with a share of participation of at least 100.000 Euro.
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 eight best applications for the tender
procedure.
The factor, which
will be taken into consideration during this re-examination, is the number of
projects fulfilling criterion 3a) and
then the cumulative value (taking
into consideration the share of participation of the candidate) thereof.
Nota bene: The Candidate must provide the relevant economic and financial
information in order to be assessed by applying the above criteria. Please fill
and include in your application the below table with relevant financial data to
prove compliance with the selection criteria as published:
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22. Award criteria
As
specified in the tender dossier annexed to the letter of invitation to tender,
which will be sent to short-listed candidates.
APPLICATION
23. Deadline for applications
11 May 2006, 16:00 hrs 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
(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 exclusively to the Contracting Authority:
·
EITHER
by recorded delivery (official postal service) to :
Central Finance and Contracting Unit (CFCU),
Ministry of Public Finance
44,
Phone:
(+ 4021) 326.55.55
Fax: (+ 4021) 326.87.30/ 326.87.09
E-mail:
carmenrosu@cfcu.ro / mariush@cfcu.ro
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OR
hand delivered (including courier services) directly
to the Contracting Authority in return for a
signed
and dated receipt to:
44,
Phone:
(+ 4021) 326.55.55
Fax: (+ 4021) 326.87.30/ 326.87.09
E-mail:
carmenrosu@cfcu.ro / mariush@cfcu.ro
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 documents for this
tender procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information
N/A
28. Date of publication of contract forecast
May 2005
29. Legal basis