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INDIVIDUAL SERVICE CONTRACT FORECAST
Technical Assistance for the Health Sector
Support Programme
Location: West Bank and Gaza
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/120126/C/SV/WB
2. Procedure
Restricted
3. Programme
MEDA
4. Financing
Budget line 190803 (ex B7-4200)
5. Contracting Authority
European Commission, on behalf of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authorities (MoH)
6. Nature of contract
Technical assistance
7. Contract description
The TA contract aims at supporting the Health Sector Support Programme during its 2 years implementation phase, with provision of long term expertise in the areas of health policy and planning, health economics/financing and procurement. The contract will also provide a panel of short term experts in additional key areas. A mix of national and international consultants will be required to be part of the TA team.
8. Indicative maximum budget
EUR 2.275.000
9. Intended timing of publication
September 2004
10. Additional informatio
11. Legal basis
Council Regulation (EC) n°1734/94 of July 1994 last amended by the Council Regulation (EC) n° 2840/98 of 21 December 1998 on financial and technical cooperation with the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Remarks:
There must be a minimum period of 30 calendar days between the publication of this contract forecast and the publication of the corresponding procurement notice.
No applications or requests for information should be sent at this stage.
SERVICE PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Technical Assistance for the Health Sector Support Programme
West Bank and Gaza
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/120126//C/SV/WB
2. Procedure
Restricted
3. Programme
MEDA
4. Financing
Budget line 190803, Financing Agreement MED/2002/005-611
5. Contracting Authority
European Commission, on behalf of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Fee-based
7. Contract description
The Health Sector Support Programme purpose is to contribute to an improvement in planning processes within the MOH with the aim of implementing cost-effective measures for primary, secondary and tertiary care and for prevention. The HSSP aims at achieving the following results:
a. Improved MOH planning and priority setting based on objectively verifiable criteria
b. Annual action plans developed based on the National Strategic Health Plan with detailed budgets based on comprehensive analysis of the cost associated with the proposed activities.
c. A transparent MoH budget that in its implementation reflects the stated health policy priorities.
d. Development and implementation of pilot action plans for innovative responses to priority public health problems, using the full potential of primary, secondary and tertiary care and prevention.
e. Improved ability, both administratively and clinically, by the MOH to develop and implement cost-effective alternatives to high-cost Treatment Abroad referrals.
f. Development of strategies to react more effectively to changing situations.
g. Enhanced coordination of partners by MOH.
h. Enhanced enabling role of MOH to strengthen entire health sector.
This TA contract aims at supporting the 2 years implementation phase of the Health Sector Support Programme, with provision of long term expertise in the areas of health policy and planning, health economics/financing and procurement. The contract will also provide a panel of short term experts in additional key areas. A mix of national and international consultants will be required to be part of the TA team.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
NA
9. Maximum budget
EUR 2,275,000
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.
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 allowed
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
October 2004
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract
January 2005
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract
24 months, 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:
(a) the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 3 times the annualised maximum budget of the contract.
2) Professional capacity of candidate:
(a) at least 10 staff currently work for the applicant in fields related to this contract;
(b) 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:
(a) has worked successfully in at least three projects on the health sector;
(b) has worked successfully on at least three capacity building projects out of which at least one in the MEDA countries in the past three 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 factors which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are:
(a) specific experience on at least 3 capacity building projects on health policy and planning.
(b) specific experience on at least 3 capacity building projects on health economics/financing.
(c) specific experience on at least 3 capacity building projects procurement on at least 3 capacity building projects health systems.
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
Monday 27th of September 2004, at 16:30 (Jerusalem 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 (
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:
hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the Contracting Authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
European Commission Technical Assistance Office
To the Attention of Francois Osete
Head of
Financial and Contracts Sector
George Adam Smith 5
Jerusalem
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
None
28. Date of publication of contract forecast
14/07/2004
29. Legal basis
Interim Association Agreement between the European Community and the Palestinian Liberation Organization for the benefit of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (24-02-1997).
Council Regulation (EC) N° 1734/94 of 11 July 1994 on financial and technical co-operation with the West Bank and Gaza Strip, laid down for the implementation of financial and technical measures connected with Israel/PLO Peace Agreement.