Mandate "Corporate Water Stewardship (CWS) in Colombia and Community of Practice Latin America". Outcome 2 - in Colombia and Outcome 4 - in Latin America - 15.05.22 -15.09.2025

The mandate aims at scaling corporate water stewardship in Colombia, contributing to civil society’s participation regarding sustainable life styles and responsible consumption, as well as enhancing knowledge sharing and influence through a Latin American Community of Practice.

Colombia with frequent movements within the country and some missions to Latin American countries.

The mandate aims at scaling corporate water stewardship in Colombia, contributing to civil society’s participation regarding sustainable life styles and responsible consumption, as well as enhancing knowledge sharing and influence through a Latin American Community of Practice.

The contracting authority reserves the right to award subsequent mandates to the successful tenderer of this tender procedure if a change of tenderer for goods, work or services to replace, supplement or extend supplies already provided is not possible for economic or technical reasons, would cause considerable difficulties or would entail substantial additional costs.

The opening of the tenders will not be public.

According to Article 11(e) of the PPA, the principal shall ensure the confidentiality of any information provided by the bidder.

Partial offers are not permitted.

Conditions for tenderers from Non-Member States of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement:None.

Terms of business: General Conditions of Business (GCB) for Project Implementation Mandates – Version May 2021. These General Conditions of Business (GCB) shall be deemed to have been accepted by the contractor on submission of the bid.

Negotiations: remain reserved.

Essential requirements:The contracting authority may only award public contracts for the supply of goods, work and services in Switzerland to tenderers that ensure compliance with the workplace health and safety regulations and the terms and conditions of employment applicable at the place of performance, the notification and authorisation duties under the Federal Act of 17 June 2005 on Measures to Combat Illegal Employment (IEA) and the provisions on the equal treatment of men and women in terms of equal pay (see Art. 12 para. 1 PPA). For goods, work or services to be supplied abroad, the tenderer must, as a minimum, ensure compliance with the Core Conventions of the International Labour Organization as set out in Annex 6 PPA (see Art. 12 para. 2 PPA). Accordingly, the contracting authority may only award a public contract to tenderers that, as a minimum, comply with the legal provisions on the protection of the environment and the conservation of natural resources applicable at the place of performance (see Art. 12 para. 3 PPA in conjunction with Annex 2 PPA). Any subcontractors that are permitted must meet the requirements set out in Article 12 paras. 1–3 PPA. These obligations must be incorporated into the agreements between tenderers and subcontractors.

Additional information: The client reserves the right to award subsequent contracts to the successful tenderer if a change of tenderer offering alternative, additional or more extensive services than those already provided is not possible for economic or technical reasons because it would lead to considerable difficulties or additional costs.

Procedures for appeal:This is a public contract under Annex 5 no. 1 let. d PPA. There is no right of appeal.

Deadline / Remarks: Bids should include all the documents stipulated in section 6 and submitted in a sealed envelope as follows: a)one original signed hard copy of the Technical and Financial Proposal labelled 'Original', b)two signed copies of the Technical and Financial Proposal labelled 'Signed Copy', c) an electronic medium (e.g. CD, DVD or external memory stick) containing all the documents of the technical proposal and the financial proposal. OR d) Alternative for submission of offers due to exceptional situation of Covid-19 the tenderers can submit the bid by email exclusively : please refer to point 8.4.2 of tender document.

Remarks (Desired deadline for questions in written form)No individual information is permitted. Any questions may be submitted anonymously by 25.01.2022 on the forum space at www.simap.ch. Questions submitted late cannot be answered. Answers will be published on www.simap.ch by 03.02.2022. Tenderers are themselves responsible for downloading the answers from www.simap.ch and for taking them into consideration in the preparation of the bids.

National reference publication: Simap of 14.01.2022 , doc. 1238459Desired deadline for questions in written form: 25.01.2022.

Documents of the invitation to tender are available from14.01.2022until 23.02.2022

Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be downloaded from the platform www.simap.ch under Running procedures, Confederation, Invitations to tender. In order to do so, you first have to register in the mentioned project. You will then be able to log in, using the password that you will have been sent by email, and download the documentation required.