EG-Cairo: MEDA — assistance to the reform of the technical and vocational education and training system in the Arab Republic of Egypt (TVET reform project)

Country:

Egypt

City/Locality:

KAIRO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:254081-2008

Publication Date:

Oct 4, 2008

Deadline:

Nov 3, 2008

Buyer:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU), REFORM OF THE TVET SYSTEM

Original Language:

English

Address:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU), REFORM OF THE TVET SYSTEM
CAIRO
Egypt

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: 193/2008
, #
254081-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Services to the PMU for organisation and implementation of twinning
arrangements for institutional capacity building to support the TVET
reform
Location — Arab Republic of Egypt
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/127360/D/SER/EG
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: MEDA.
4. Financing: Financing Agreement MED/2002/004-955, budget line
BGUE-B2007-19.080101-C8.
5. Contracting authority: Ministry of Trade and Industry represented by
the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the 'Assistance to the TVET reform'
project (decentralised tender procedures).
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The aim of the contract is to provide services
to the PMU for the timely organisation and implementation of various
twinning arrangements related to enterprise TVET partnerships in the
various economic sectors. For each twinning arrangement:
1) appropriate/relevant Egyptian and European twinning arrangement
partners have to be identified;
2) complete planning documents of twinning arrangement activities and
respective responsibilities have to be drafted;
3) integrated monitoring and evaluation designed; and
4) final report documenting achievements and outcomes has to be delivered.
8. Numbers and titles of lots: 1 single lot.
9. Maximum budget: EUR 1 500 000.
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) who 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: No subcontracting will be allowed.
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: 4th quarter, 2008.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: 1st quarter, 2009.
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract:
24 months (definite deadline 30.3.2011).
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 must exceed 2 times the
annualised maximum budget of the contract (i.e., the maximum budget stated
in the procurement notice divided by the initial contract duration in
years, where this exceeds 1 year) for the last 3 years: 2005, 2006, 2007;
(b) the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) has a professional certificate appropriate to this contract;
(b) at least 30 % of all staff working for the candidate this year in
fields related to this contract are permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
(a) each consortium or single potential bidder must have solid experience
in managing at least 2 similar projects within the last 5 years. The
projects must relate to the organisation and implementation of various
twinning arrangements related to TVET/institutional capacity building in
various economic sectors, ideally in countries in economic transition;
(b) the candidate has sufficient and proven expertise and experience to be
able to handle the proposed contract organisationally.
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) overall number of successfully executed contracts for organisation and
implementation of various twinning arrangements related to
TVET/institutional capacity building, in transition countries;
2) specific experience in the MEDA region.
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: 3.11.2008 (12:00), Cairo local
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://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/
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:
Mohamed Helal, PMU Director, Project Management Unit (PMU), Reform of the
TVET System, 109 Kasr El Eini Street, Cairo, Egypt,
— or hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the
contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Mohamed Helal, PMU Director, Project Management Unit (PMU), Reform of the
TVET System, 109 Kasr El Eini Street, Cairo, Egypt.
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: 24.7.2008.
30. Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 1488/96 of 23.7.1996 as last
amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2698/2000 of 27.11.2000.

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