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SERVICE PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Technical assistance to the Third Regional Environment Programme
in the Mediterranean (SMAP III)
Location – Mediterranean region
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/120172/C/SV/Multi
2. Procedure
Restricted
3. Programme
MEDA
4. Financing
Budget line 19 08 02 01 (MEDA)
5. Contracting Authority
· European Commission, acting for and on behalf of beneficiary countries
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Fee-based
7. Contract description
وصــف للعـقـد
ادارة البرامج ومسئوليات التنفيذ لخطط البيئة والسواحل لدول البحر المتوسط.
· اثنين من الخدمات المتكاملة للدعم الفني المطلوب :
1. دعم للسياسة البيئية وتقويم المؤسسات من اجل مساعدة الحكومات لدول البحر المتوسط في مجهوداتهم لتبني سيايات واستراتيجيات التنمية البيئية المستدامة.
2. دعم فني للاعداد والمتابعة للادارة المتكاملة لخطط البيئة الساحلية مع الاخذ في الاعتبار مصالح الدول والمحميات الطبيعية , وايضا اهمية مشاركة السكان المحليين في خطوات التنمية والحماية للبيئة.
Overall programme management and implementation responsibility, including oversight of the integrated coastal zone management plans to be co-financed under the programme budget. Two distinct and complementary types of technical assistance services are being sought: (i) environment policy assistance and institutional strengthening, in order to help Mediterranean Governments in their efforts towards the adoption of sustainable development policies and strategies; (ii) assistance to the promotion, preparation and follow up of integrated coastal zone management plans taking account of the interests of the various stakeholders concerned, of considerations of natural resources preservation, and of the necessity of involving the local populations in the development processes and environmental protection measures envisaged.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
NA
9. Maximum budget
EUR 4,000,000
10. Scope for additional services
NA
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
11. Eligibility
Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons of the EU Member States and MEDA countries and territories (Algeria, Egypt, Israël, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Gaza and the West Bank).
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 (ie, the leader and all other partners) 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 one application can be submitted by a natural or legal person (including legal persons within the same legal group), whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person (including legal persons within the same legal group) submits more than one application, all applications in which that person (and legal persons within the same legal group) has participated will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Short-listed 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 statement 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 financed from the General Budget of the European Communities in the context of external action, available from the following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm
16. Sub-contracting
Sub-contracting is permitted up to a maximum of 30% of the contract value.
17. Number of candidates to be short-listed
On the basis of the applications received, at least 4 and at most 8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract.
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender
January 2005
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract
May 2005
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract
3 years. No extension is foreseen.
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 standing of candidate [based on item 3 of the application form]
The average annual turnover of the consortium (leader plus partners) must have exceeded 5,000,000 EUR each year in the past three years (2001, 2002, 2003).
2) Professional capacity of candidate [based on items 4 and 5 of the application form]
At least 20 staff members currently work for the consortium in fields related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate [based on items 5 and 6 of the application form]
The candidate has worked successfully on at least three co-operation projects with Third Countries with a budget of at least one half of this contract in fields related to this contract in the past three years (2001, 2002, 2003).
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates must be reexamined to identify the eight best applications for the tender procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are:
1) Track record in the promotion of environmental integration in non environment-specific sectors;
2) Proven experience in the formulation and practical implementation of sustainable development strategies and policies.
3) Geographical experience in the Mediterranean region.
22. Award criteria
As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the letter of invitation to tender which will be sent to short-listed candidates.
APPLICATION
23. Deadline for receipt of applications
7 January 2005, 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://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
Any application which does not observe these provisions will be automatically eliminated. 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 :
European Commission
EuropeAid Co-operation Office, AIDCO/B/6
Audits, Contracts and Finance Unit
Office: J-54, 01/237 – Tender: EuropeaAid/120172/C/SV/Multi
B-1049 Brussels
· OR hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the Contracting Authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
European Commission
Service du Courrier Central
EuropeAid Co-operation Office, AIDCO/B/6
Audits, Contracts and Finance Unit
Office: J-54, 01/237 – Tender: EuropeaAid/120172/C/SV/Multi
Rue de Genève, 1
B-1140 Brussels-Evere
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. Operational language
All written communications for this tender procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information
NA
28. Date of publication of contract forecast
23/07/2004
28. Legal basis
Council Regulation (EC) N° 1488/96 of 23 July 1996 on financial and technical measures to accompany (MEDA) the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (OJ N° L 189, 30 July 1996, p. 1), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) N° 2698/2000 (OJ N° L 311, 12 December 200
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