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INDIVIDUAL SERVICE CONTRACT FORECAST
Trade Enhancement Programme C - (TEP C) Technical Assistance to the Egyptian Customs Administration - Arab Republic of Egypt
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/120468/C/SV/EG
2. Procedure
Restricted
3. Programme
Meda
4. Financing
Budget line: BGUE-B2004-19.080201-C8-AIDCO
5. Contracting Authority
· European Commission, represented by the EC Delegation in Egypt, on behalf of beneficiary country
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Fee-based
7. Contract description
The required services will consist of technical assistance to the Egyptian Customs Administration (under the Ministry of Finance) for institutional capacity building and upgrading of management resources of the Customs Administration, thus contributing to the achievements of the Government of Egypt’s customs reform objectives.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
One LOT, Trade Enhancement Programme C - (TEP C) Technical Assistance to the Egyptian Customs Administration
9. Maximum budget
EUR 3,400,000
10. Scope for additional services
Not Applicable
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
11. Eligibility
Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons of the EU Member States, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian territories, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.
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 actions (available from following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm).
16. Sub-contracting
Not Applicable.
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
21st of March 2005
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract
June 2005
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract
30 months from the commencement date
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:
· The average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 3 times the annualised maximum budget of the contract (ie, the maximum budget stated in the procurement notice divided by the initial contract duration in years, where this exceeds 1 year).
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
· At least 20% of all staff working for the candidate this year in fields related to this contract are permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate:
· the candidate has implemented at least two projects with a budget of at least that of this contract in fields related to this contract in the past five years
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 factor which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination is:
1) MEDA experience in upgrading Custom Administration in similar environment and conditions.
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
17th of February 2005 at 12:00 noon (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 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:
· by recorded delivery (official postal service) to :
(Delegation
of the European Commission in Egypt,
Finance
and Contract section
Trade Enhancement Programme C (TEP C)
Tender EuropeAid/120468/C/SV/EG
37, Gamaet El Dowal El Arabeya St., El Fouad Office Building, 11th Floor,
Mohandessin, Giza, 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. Operational language
All written communications for this tender procedure and contract must be in English.
27. Additional information
Not Applicable
28. Date of publication of contract forecast
19th of October 2004
29. Legal basis
Council Regulation No (EC) 2698/2000 which modifies Council Regulation No (EC) 1488/1996
