KZ-Almaty: Tacis — enhancement of environmental protection measures in the oil/gas industry of central Asia

Country:

Kazakhstan

City/Locality:

ALMATI

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:163884-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 27, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 4, 2008

Buyer:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN KAZAKHSTAN

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN KAZAKHSTAN
ALMATY
Kazakhstan

90720000 - Environmental protection

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: 123/2008
, #
163884-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/125982/C/SER/Multi
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: Tacis.
4. Financing: Central Asia action programme 2006.
5. Contracting authority: European Community, represented by the European
Commission on behalf of and for the account of the beneficiary countries
(Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan,
Republic of Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan).
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The purposes of this contract is to reduce the
environmental impact of activities within the oil and gas sector through
promotion of appropriate changes in the relevant environmental
legislations and implementation of sustainable environmental improvement
projects within beneficiary countries taking account of the potential to
attract project finance from international finance institutions (IFIs),
oil and gas developers (both international operators and nationalised
companies), and the Clean Development Mechanism/Joint Implementation
initiatives within the Kyoto protocol or other emission trading schemes.
8. Number and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 2 950 000.
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: Not applicable.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: On the basis of the
applications received, between 4–8 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: August 2008.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: December 2008.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
24 months; possible extension till end of the operational implementation
phase of the financing agreement.
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 during the years
2006–2009 must exceed EUR 1 500 000.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) at least 20 staff (permanent + other) work for the applicant in the
fields related to this contract this year. The fields related to this
contract are oil and gas and environmental protection;
(b) at least 20 % of all staff (permanent + other) working for the
candidate in year 2008 in the fields related to this contract are
permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) during last 3 years, i.e. since July 2005, the candidate has worked on
at least 2 environmental projects with minimum budget EUR 1 000 000 each.
The candidate's work input must have been at least 30 % in each project;
(b) during last 3 years, the candidate must have participated in at least
2 projects in the oil and gas sector with minimum budget EUR 1 000 000
each. The candidate's work input must have been at least 30 % in each
project.
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 in the oil and gas sector with minimum budget EUR 1
000 000 each. The candidate's work input must have been at least 30 % in
each project.
In case there are still more than 8 candidates with equal results the
second additional criteria to be used will be:
2) number of environmental projects with minimum budget EUR 1 000 000
each. The candidate's work input must have been at least 30 % in each
project.
In case there are still more than 8 candidates with equal results the
third additional criteria to be used will be:
3) number of previous EC contracts in NIS.
22. Award criteria: Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 4.8.2008 (16:00), Almaty 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:
Head of Finance and Contracts Section, Delegation of the European
Commission in Kazakhstan, Finance and Contracts Section, 20A, Kazibek Bi,
050010 Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan,
— or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Head of Finance and Contracts Section, Delegation of the European
Commission in Kazakhstan, Finance and Contracts Section, 20A, Kazibek Bi,
050010 Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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: Not appropriate.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 29.8.2007.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 99/2000 of
29.12.1999 (concerning the provision of assistance to economic reform and
recovery in the Community of Independent States and Mongolia), as amended
by Council Regulation (EC) No 2112/2005 of 21.11.2005 on access to
Community external assistance.

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