CG-Brazzaville: EDF — institutional support to the Central African Power Pool (CAPP) - dgMarket - Tenders and consulting opportunities worldwide

Country:

Congo, Republic

City/Locality:

MPRAZABIL

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:81580-2008

Publication Date:

Oct 2, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 17, 2008

Buyer:

COMMUNAUTE EUROPEENNE, REPRESENTEE PAR LA COMMISSION EUROPEENNE AGISSANT AU NOM ET POUR COMPTE DU SECRETARIAT ACP

Original Language:

French

Address:

DELEGATION DE LA COMMISSION EUROPEENNE AU CONGO
BRAZZAVILLE
Congo, Republic

Email:

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71356200 - Technical assistance services

Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 61/2008
, #
81580-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Republic of the Congo
Service contract notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126679/C/SER/CG.
2. Procedure: International restricted invitation to tender.
3. Programme: European Development Fund (EDF).
4. Financing: Financing agreement 9 ACP RPR 59.
5. Contracting authority: La Communauté européenne, représentée par la
Commission européenne agissant au nom et pour compte du secrétariat ACP.
Contract specifications
6. Type of contract: Unit-price contract.
7. Contract description: CAPP headquarters are in Brazzaville, in the
Congo. The aim of the project is to build up proficiency among CAPP staff
via transfer of know-how and expertise, especially concerning:
— preparation of contracts for energy transmission and exchange,
— institutional and legal management,
— preparation of energy purchase agreements,
— support with preparation of pilot programmes for cross-border rural
electrification.
8. Number and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget available: EUR 2 365 000.
10. Object of additional services: Subject to the availability of
funding, the contracting authority may decide, at its own discretion, to
extend the term of the contract or its object up to a maximum amount not
exceeding the initial contract value and duration. Any contract extension
is subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions for participation
11. Eligibility: Participation in contract procedures 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 instruments applicable to
the programme under which the contract is financed (see also point 30).
12. Application: Any eligible natural person or legal entity (as defined
in point 11) or grouping of said parties (consortium) may apply.
A consortium can be a permanent grouping with legal status or an informal
grouping created with a specific invitation to tender in mind. All the
members of a consortium (i.e. lead company and all other members) shall be
jointly and severally liable vis-à-vis the contracting authority.
Should an ineligible natural person or legal entity (as defined in point
11) take part, this will result in the application concerned being
automatically disqualified (in particular, the application from the whole
consortium where said party belongs to a consortium).
13. Number of applications: Natural persons or legal entities can only
submit 1 application irrespective of whether they take part as a sole
legal entity, or as a lead company or member of a consortium submitting an
application. Should a natural person or legal entity submit more than 1
application, all the applications involving said party will be
disqualified.
14. Prohibition on alliances between shortlisted candidates: Tenders
which include companies not mentioned on the application forms used to
compile the shortlist will be disqualified from this restricted procedure.
Candidates invited to tender may not form alliances or subcontract to each
other for the contract in question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: Candidates must sign and enclose with their
application the statement provided in the standard application form
confirming that they are not in any of the situations described in section
2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EC external
actions.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is not permitted.
17. Number of candidates invited to tender: A minimum of 4 and a maximum
of 8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this
contract, depending on the applications received.
Provisional schedule for activities
18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender: 26.5.2008.
19. Provisional start date for the contract: 18.9.2008.
20. Initial contract length, and possible extension: 36 months.
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to candidates. Where applications are submitted by a consortium, then the
criteria will apply to the consortium as a whole.
(1) Candidates' economic and financial capacity (based on point 3 of the
application form):
(a) candidates' average annual turnover in the past 3 financial years must
have exceeded EUR 800 000.
(2) Candidates' professional capacity (based on points 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) the energy sector must be amongst candidates' fields of
specialisation;
(b) the following staff work regularly in the energy field:
at least 20 % of staff or 100 people, in the case of individual
candidates,
at least 30 % of staff or 150 people, of at least 1 member of the
consortium, should a consortium be involved.
(3) Candidates' technical capacity (based on points 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) individual candidates, or at least 1 member of the consortium, must
have completed at least 1 project worth at least EUR 300 000 in the
electrical energy sector, as main contractor and outside their country of
nationality, in the past 3 years.
Economic operators 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 themselves and said bodies. In such an event, they must
provide the contracting authority with proof that they 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. Such
bodies, e.g. economic operators' parent companies, must observe the same
eligibility rules, notably regarding nationality, as the economic
operators themselves.
If more than 8 applications prove to be eligible, i.e. meet all the
selection criteria, then the strengths and weaknesses of these candidates'
tenders will need to be re-examined to determine which 8 applications for
the invitation to tender are the most suitable. Only the following factor
will be considered in the re-examination:
(1) number of permanent staff, of individual candidates or of the lead
partner in a consortium, working in the energy field.
22. Award criteria: Economically most advantageous tender.
Application submission procedures
23. Final date for submission of applications: 4.5.2008 (11:00), local
time in Brazzaville.
Applications received after this deadline will be rejected.
24. Application submission procedures and information to be supplied: The
standard application form must be used for applications. This form is
available from the following web address:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/services/
index_fr.htm. The clauses and format of this form must be strictly adhered
to.
Additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) enclosed with the
application will not be considered.
25. Procedures for dispatch of applications: Applications must be sent to
the contracting authority, and no other:
— either by registered post (official postal service), to the following
address:
M. Claudio Bacigalupi, chef de section «Infrastructures et environnement»,
délégation de la Commission européenne au Congo, avenue Maréchal Lyautey
(face à l'Ambassade d'Italie), BP 2149, Brazzaville, Congo. Tel. (242) 81
31 34, 521 74 00/01/02. E-mail: claudio.bacigalupi@ec.europa.eu,
— or by bearer (express courier services in particular) with the
application delivered straight to the contracting authority, in return for
a signed and dated acknowledgement of receipt, at the following address:
M. Claudio Bacigalupi, chef de section «Infrastructures et environnement»,
délégation de la Commission européenne au Congo, avenue Maréchal Lyautey
(face à l'Ambassade d'Italie), BP 2149, Brazzaville, Congo. Tel. (242) 81
31 34, 521 74 00/01/02. E-mail: claudio.bacigalupi@ec.europa.eu.
The contract title and the contract notice number (see point 1) must be
clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must be
quoted in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting authority.
Applications submitted in any other way will not be considered.
26. Amendments to or withdrawal of applications: Tenderers may amend or
withdraw their tender by giving notice thereof in writing before the final
date for submission of tenders. Tenders cannot be amended once this
deadline has passed.
Notice of amendments to or the withdrawal of a tender must be drawn up and
sent as per the instructions given in point 25. The word 'modification'
(amendment) or 'retrait' (withdrawal), as applicable, must be written on
the outside envelope (and on the relevant inner envelope).
27. Working language: All correspondence concerning this invitation to
tender procedure and contract must be in French.
28. Additional information: Where applicable.
29. Date of publication of the corresponding contract forecast:
19.2.2008.
30. Legal basis: Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou on 23.6.2000, as
amended in 2005.
Decision No 2/2002 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers published in OJ L
320 on 23.11.2002.

Update: Oct 2, 2008

Notice Type: 0708
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Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 191/2008
, #
252213-2008
Referenced Document Number: 81580-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Cancellation of an invitation to tender for services
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 61 of
28.3.2008, restricted procedure, 81580-2008)
1. Publication reference: EuropAid/126679/C/SER/CG.
2. Publication date: 28.3.2008.
3. Programme: 9th EDF — 9 ACP RPR 059.
4. Contracting authority: Communauté européenne, représentée par la
Commission européenne agissant au nom et pour compte du secrétariat ACP,
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
5. Additional information: Following cancellation of this invitation to
tender, this contract will be awarded via a negotiated procedure with the
candidate selected after technical assessment of tenders.

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