HR-Zagreb: Phare — support to the SONS in upgrading and modernisation of the Croatian early warning system - dgMarket - Tenders and consulting opportunities worldwide

Country:

Croatia

City/Locality:

ZAGKREMP

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:215835-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 20, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 27, 2008

Buyer:

CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTING AGENCY

Original Language:

English

Address:

CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTING AGENCY
ZAGREB
Croatia

Email:

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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: 160/2008
, #
215835-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Republic of Croatia
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/126553/D/SUP/HR
2. Procedure: Open.
3. Programme: Phare 2006.
4. Financing: Phare 2006 — programme for Community assistance in the
field of nuclear safety.
5. Contracting authority: Central Finance and Contracting Agency.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: The purpose of the contract is supply of
the equipment (hardware and software) for improvement and modernisation of
the Croatian early warning system (CEWS) network for immediate detection
of potential contamination in the case of nuclear accident. Realisation of
the contract should strengthen the capabilities of the State Office for
Nuclear Safety (SONS) in assuring of reliable information in the case of
nuclear accident with the network of 25 installed gamma dose measuring
stations over the entire Croatian territory. 2 stations should be
supplemented with meteorological equipment and 2 aerosol (alpha, beta,
gamma) monitoring stations which should be installed and integrated in the
CEWS. In addition a new integrated central system for reading, analysing
and presenting of the measuring data should be developed, installed,
tested and verified.
7. Number and titles of lots: Not applicable.
Terms of participation
8. Eligibility and rules of origin: Participation is open to all legal
persons participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of
tenderers 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 item 22 below). All goods supplied under this contract
must originate in 1 or more of these countries. Participation is also open
to international organisations. Participation of natural persons is
directly governed by the specific instruments applicable to the programme
under which the contract is financed.
9. Grounds for exclusion: Tenderers must submit a signed declaration,
included in the tender form for a supply contract, to the effect that they
are not in any of the situations listed in point 2.3.3 of the 'Practical
Guide to contract procedures for EC external actions'.
10. Number of tenders: Tenderers may submit only 1 tender per lot.
Tenders for parts of a lot will not be considered. Any tenderer may state
in its tender that it would offer a discount in the event that its tender
is accepted for more than 1 lot. Tenderers may not submit a tender for a
variant solution in addition to their tender for the supplies required in
the tender dossier.
11. Tender guarantee: Tenderers must provide a tender guarantee of EUR 5
300 when submitting their tender. This guarantee will be released to
unsuccessful tenderers once the tender procedure has been completed and to
the successful tenderer(s) upon signature of the contract by all parties.
This guarantee will be called upon if the tenderer does not fulfil all
obligations stated in its tender.
12. Performance guarantee: The successful tenderer will be asked to
provide a performance guarantee of 10 % of the amount of the contract at
the signing of the contract. This guarantee must be provided together with
the return of the countersigned contract no later than 30 days after the
tenderer receives the contract signed by the contracting authority. If the
selected tenderer fails to provide such a guarantee within this period,
the contract will be void and a new contract may be drawn up and sent to
the tenderer which has submitted the next best compliant tender.
13. Information meeting and/or site visit: No information meeting is
planned.
14. Tender validity: Tenders must remain valid for a period of 90 days
after the deadline for submission of tenders.
15. Period of implementation: The implementation period will last 330
days starting from the day of issuance of the commencement order and
ending on the day of issuance of the provisional acceptance certificate.
The implementation period includes a delivery period of 120 days.
Selection and award criteria
16. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to tenderers. In the case of tenders submitted by a consortium, these
selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. item 3 of
the tender form for a supply contract):
a) the annual turnover of the tenderer for the year 2007 (2006 is
considered to be the year before last and 2007 is considered to be last
year) must be at least 2 times the submitted financial proposal;
b) the cash and cash equivalents of the tenderer at the end of the years
2006 and 2007 are positive.
2) Professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
a) at least 5 persons of all permanent staff currently working for
candidate are working in the fields related this contract (design,
installation or maintenance of radiation early warning or monitoring
systems).
3) Technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
a) the tenderer has successfully completed at least 1 contract in the
fields of radiation early warning or monitoring systems with the budget of
at least half of his financial proposal for this tender in the years 2005,
2006, 2007 or 2008;
b) the tenderer has a certificated quality assurance (QA) programme
related to the services offered.
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.
17. Award criteria: Price.
Tendering
18. How to obtain the tender dossier: The tender dossier is available
from the following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/
procedures/index_en.htm.
The tender dossier is also available from the contracting authority from
the following address: http://cfcu.mfin.hr.
Tenders must be submitted using the standard tender form for a supply
contract included in the tender dossier, whose format and instructions
must be strictly observed.
Tenderers with questions regarding this tender should send them in writing
to:
Central Finance and Contracting Agency, Ulica grada Vukovara 284, 10000
Zagreb, Croatia. Fax (385-1) 459 10 75. E-mail: cfcu@mfin.hr
(mentioning the publication reference shown in item 1) at least 21 days
before the deadline for submission of tenders given in item 19. The
contracting authority must reply to all tenderers' questions at least 11
days before the deadline for submission of tenders. Eventual
clarifications to the tender dossier shall be published on the EuropeAid
website at http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/index_en.htm and
at the CFCA website http://cfcu.mfin.hr
19. Deadline for submission of tenders: 27.10.2008 (10:00), local time at
the premises of the Central Finance and Contracting Agency, Ulica grada
Vukovara 284, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 27.10.2008 (12:00), local time at the
premises of the Central Finance and Contracting Agency, Ulica grada
Vukovara 284, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
21. Language of the procedure: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
22. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3906/89 of 18.12.1989, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of 20.12.2004.

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