KEY INFORMATION

Project Reference No(s):

EuropeAid/129161/D/SUP/Multi

Contacts:

EuropeAid Co-operation Office, European Commission
Phone: +32.02.299.11.11

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announced Date

January 22, 2010

Proposal Due Date

April 20, 2010

General Information

Opportunity Type:

Goods

Country/Region:

Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal

Publication Date:

Feb 08, 2010

Contract Award

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Notice/Contract Number:

EuropeAid/129161/D/SUP/Multi

Project Summary

B-Brussels: EDF — supply of laboratory equipment (general, chemicals, reagents and analysis equipment) for quality control and inspection of fishery products

2010/S 15-018317

As part of the programme ‘Improving the health conditions of fishery products in the ACP/OCT States’

Places of delivery: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal

Supplies contract notice

1. Publication reference:

EuropeAid/129161/D/SUP/MULTI.

2. Procedure:

Open.

3. Programme:

EDF 8.

4. Financing:

Financing agreement — agreement 6513/REG ‘Improving the health conditions of fishery products in the ACP/OCT States’.

5. Contracting authority:

Secretariat of the ACP Group of States, avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels, BELGIUM.

Contract specifications

 

6. Contract description:

The aim of this contract is: the supply, delivery and, if required, installation, commissioning, maintenance, including after-sales service, of laboratory equipment (general and analysis equipment), divided into different lots. This equipment is for use by the competent authority in order to improve the health conditions of and capacities to control fishery products at national level.

7. Number and titles of lots:

The contract has been divided into 5 lots, as follows:
lot 1: general laboratory equipment for Guinea-Bissau;
lot 2: chemicals and reagents for Guinea-Bissau;
lot 3: general laboratory equipment for Guinea;
lot 4: chemicals and reagents for Guinea;
lot 5: analysis equipment for laboratories in Senegal.

Conditions for participation

 

8. Eligibility and rule of origin:

Participation in the contract is open on equal terms to natural persons and legal entities (irrespective of whether they are taking part as individuals or as part of a grouping (consortium) of tenderers) from the ACP countries and the Member States of the European Union who contribute to the European Development Fund, and also to international organisations as authorised by the instrument applicable to the programme under which the contract is financed (see point 22 below). All the goods supplied under this contract must originate in 1 or more of these countries.

9. Grounds for exclusion:

Tenderers must submit a declaration stating that they are not in any of the situations listed in section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures in the context of external actions.

10. Number of tenders:

Tenderers may not submit more than 1 tender per lot. Tenders for part of a lot will not be considered. Tenderers may state in their tender whether they would grant a discount should they be awarded several lots. Tenderers may not submit a variant tender in addition to their tender for the supplies required in the invitation to tender dossier.

11. Tender guarantee:

Tenderers must furnish a tender guarantee of:
lot 1: 1 600 EUR;
lot 2: 240 EUR;
lot 3: 245 EUR;
lot 4: 30 EUR;
lot 5: 275 EUR;
when they submit their tenders. This guarantee will be returned to unsuccessful tenderers once the invitation to tender procedure has been completed, and to the successful tenderer(s) once the contract has been signed by all parties. This guarantee will be drawn on if the tenderer does not honour all the obligations stipulated in the invitation to tender.

12. Performance bond:

The successful tenderer will be required to provide a performance bond for 10 % of the contract value when the contract is signed. The bond must be furnished within 30 days of the date on which the tenderer receives the contract signed by the contracting authority. If the successful tenderer does not furnish the bond within the time allowed, the contract will be rendered void and a new contract may then be drawn up and sent to the tenderer with the second best compliant tender.

13. Briefing and/or site visit:

There are no plans for a briefing.

14. Tender validity:

Tenders are to be valid for 90 days from the final date for submission of tenders.

15. Implementation period:

The implementation period shall begin on the date of contract signature until provisional acceptance.

Selection and award criteria

 

16. Selection criteria:

The following selection criteria will be applied to tenderers. Where tenders are submitted by a consortium, these criteria will apply to the consortium as a whole.
1) Tenderer’s economic and financial capacity (based on point 3 of the tender form for a supplies contract):
— the tenderer must have an average annual turnover which exceeds the financial proposal in the tender.
2) Tenderer’s professional capacity (based on points 4 and 5 of the tender form for a supplies contract):
— the tenderer must have at least 4 people working full time or 4 full-time equivalents in the field to which this contract relates.
3) Tenderer’s technical capacity (based on points 5 and 6 of the tender form for a supplies contract):
— the tenderer must have successfully carried out at least 1 project with a similar budget in the field to which this contract relates, during the past 5 years.
An economic operator may, if necessary and for a specific contract, make use of the capacities of other bodies irrespective of the legal nature of the connection between himself and said bodies. In such an event, he must provide the contracting authority with proof that he will have the resources needed to carry out the contract by, for example, producing a written commitment by said bodies to make such resources available. These bodies must comply with the same eligibility rules, in particular regarding nationality, as the economic operator in question.

17. Award criterion:

Price (or, where applicable following derogation, the economically most advantageous tender in terms of service quality/price).

Tender submission

 

18. Procedures for obtaining the invitation to tender dossier:

The invitation to tender dossier is available from the following web address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/supplies/index_fr.htm

It can also be obtained from the contracting authority. The standard tender form for a supplies contract must be used to draw up tenders. This form can be found in the invitation to tender dossier, and its clauses and format must be strictly adhered to.
Questions regarding this invitation to tender must be sent in writing to:

SFP Module 2 ‘Strengthening of fisheries laboratories and technical institutes’, attention: Project Coordinator for the Module, rue Abbé Cuypers 3, Etterbeek, 1040Brussels, BELGIUM. E-mail: tender@SFPmodule2.be

(quoting the publication reference in point 1), at least 21 days before the final date for submission of tenders, given in point 19. The contracting authority must reply at least 11 days before the final date for submission of tenders. Clarifications concerning the invitation to tender dossier may be published on the EuropeAid website: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

19. Final date for submission of tenders:

The final date for submission of tenders is set at 20.4.2010 (9:00), local time in Brussels.

20. Tender opening session:

The tender opening session will take place on 20.4.2010 (10:00), local time in Brussels.

21. Language for the procedure:

French must be used for all correspondence concerning this invitation to tender.

22. Legal basis: ACP-EC Partnership Agreement signed in Lomé on 15.12.1989, as amended by the Mauritius Agreement of 1995.
Decision No 03/1990 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers published in OJEC L 382 of 31.12.1990.

The above is a complete copy of the original procurement notice.

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