AL-Tirana: IPA — support for alignment of Albanian statistics with EU standards

Country:

Albania

City/Locality:

TIRANA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:168340-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 3, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 11, 2008

Buyer:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO ALBANIA

Original Language:

English

Address:

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO ALBANIA
TIRANA
Albania

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: 127/2008
, #
168340-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126768/C/SER/AL
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: IPA 2007 Albania.
4. Financing: 22.02.02 Transition and institution-building assistance to
potential candidate countries.
5. Contracting authority: European Community, represented by the European
Commission for and on behalf of the Republic of Albania.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: Overall, the purpose of this contract is to
improve the Albanian statistics in order to meet the EU requirements and
offer better service to all users. This will be achieved through
compilation of the national GDP and establishment of a system of national
accounts in the country to EU standards, updating of the statistical
business register according to the international recommendations
(Eurostat) and the establishment of an updated farm register in order to
produce reliable agriculture statistics in line with EU requirements.
Specifically, the contract will enable producing of GDP figures and
improvement of the coverage and timelines of national accounts aggregates
in line with Eurostat standards. Concerning the business register, it will
ensure the complete coverage of all economic units operating in the
country, including registration of all small units, improvement of the
quality of the different variables of enterprises, avoiding duplicated
enterprises in the register and cleaning of the business register from
sleeping enterprises. Finally, the contract will help to establish a farm
register and use its outputs for conducting agricultural surveys.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 2 650 000.
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, 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: September 2008.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: January 2009.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
The initial period of execution is 18 months, with a possible extension of
the contract of up to 10 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 capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form):
(a) the annual turnover of the candidate in each of the years 2006 and
2007 must be at least EUR 1 000 000; and
(b) the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
each of the years 2006 and 2007 are positive;
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) at least 20 permanent staff is currently 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 (in the case of a consortium only the leading company),
must have successfully completed in the past 4 years (2005, 2006, 2007 and
2008), at least 2 service contracts, each of them with a budget of at
least EUR 1 000 000 (only the proportion carried out by the candidate will
be taken into consideration) in the field of statistics, including
implementation of censuses.
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. Under the same conditions, a consortium of economic operators
may rely on the capacities of members of the consortium or of other
entities.
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) the number of eligible projects under point 3(a); and (if number of
candidates re-examined is still higher than 8);
2) the total financial value of the eligible projects under point 3(a).
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: 11.8.2008 (16:00), Central
European 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 Albania, Contracts, Finance and
Audit Section, Rruga e Durrësit No 127-1, Laprake, Tirana, Albania,
— 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 Albania, Contracts, Finance and
Audit Section, Rruga e Durrësit No 127-1, Laprake, Tirana, Albania.
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 applicable.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 7.3.2008 — OJ S 47.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 of 17.7.2006
establishing an Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) — OJ L 210
of 31.7.2006.

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