GE-Tbilisi: Tacis — Armenia — European Policy and Legal Advice Centre (AEPLAC V)

Country:

Georgia

City/Locality:

TIPHLIDA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:154930-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 9, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 8, 2008

Buyer:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA
TBILISI
Georgia

71356200 - Technical assistance services

Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 117/2008
, #
154930-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Armenia
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126944/C/SER/AM
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Tacis.
4. Financing: Tacis action programme Armenia 2006.
5. Contracting authority: The European Community, represented by the
European Commission, on behalf of and for the account of the beneficiary
country.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The objective of AEPLAC V will be to strengthen
the capacity of the legislative, executive and judiciary powers of the
Republic of Armenia and support them in the modernisation process towards
democracy, good governance, rule of law and market economy through the
implementation of the ENP action plan (including selective legislative
approximation to the EU 'acquis'), in the framework of the PCA, by
transferring know-how and making the best use of the ENP instruments
available to Armenia.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: None.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 2 200 000.
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 30 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 will not be allowed.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: On the basis of the
applications received, a maximum of 4 to 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: July 2008.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: November 2008.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
18 months (with possible extension — see point 10 also).
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 capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed the
annualised maximum budget of this contract, i.e. EUR 1 500 000;
(b) the average of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
the year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) the candidate has at least 10 permanent staff working in fields
related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) the candidate has worked successfully on at least 1 project with a
budget of at least that of this contract in the past 4 years (since 2005);
(b) the candidate has worked successfully on at least 1 project focusing
on modernisation processes towards democracy, good governance, rule of law
and market economy in 1 of the 12 new EU Member States in the last 8 years
(since 2001);
(c) the candidate has worked on at least 1 technical assistance project
related to legal reforms in at least 1 former Soviet Union country or
non-EU-Member East European country.
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 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) number of projects (at least 50 % of the total project's budget)
implemented under criteria 3(b) above;
2) number of projects implemented under criteria 3(c) above.
22. Award criteria: Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 21.7.2008 (13:00), local
Georgian 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://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/
index_en.htm) whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
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 to Georgia and Armenia, Finance and
Contracts Section, 38, Nino Chkheidze St., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel.
(995-32) 94 37 63. Fax (995-32) 94 37 68,
— 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 to Georgia and Armenia, Finance and
Contracts Section, 38, Nino Chkheidze St., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel.
(995-32) 94 37 63. Fax (995-32) 94 37 68.
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 tenders. No application may be altered after this
deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and
submitted in accordance with clause 25. The outer envelope (and the
relevant inner envelope) 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. Additional information: None.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 11.4.2008.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 99/2000 of
29.12.1999 concerning the provision of assistance to the partner States in
eastern Europe and central Asia, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No
2112/2005 of 21.11.2005 on access to Community external assistance.

Update: Jul 9, 2008

Notice Type: 0708
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: PHARE, TACIS and countries of Central and Eastern Europe
EU Official Journal Publication: 131/2008
, #
173726-2008
Referenced Document Number: 154930-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Corrigendum
Service procurement notice
EuropeAid/126944/C/SER/AM
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 117 of
18.6.2008, restricted procedure, 154930-2008)
Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia and Armenia, Finance and
Contracts Section, 38, Nino Chkheidze St., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel.
(995-32) 94 37 63. Fax (995-32) 94 37 68.
for: 9. Maximum budget: EUR 2 200 000.
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: July 2008.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
18 months (with possible extension — see point 10 also).
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 capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed the
annualised maximum budget of this contract, i.e. EUR 1 500 000;
...
23. Deadline for receipt of applications:
21.7.2008 (13:00), local Georgian time.
read: 9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 600 000.
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: August 2008.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
24 months (with possible extension — see point 10 also).
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 capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed the
annualised maximum budget of this contract, i.e. EUR 800 000;
...
23. Deadline for receipt of applications:
8.8.2008 (13:00), local Georgian time.

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