Ethiopia-Addis Ababa: EDF — SPSP IV — Technical cooperation to support the road sector development programme

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Ethiopia-Addis Ababa: EDF — SPSP IV — Technical cooperation to support the road sector development programme

Ethiopia-Addis Ababa: EDF — SPSP IV — Technical cooperation to support the road sector development programme has been closed on 11 Aug 2017. It no longer accepts any bids. For further information, you can contact the Ethiopian Roads Authority

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Location: Ethiopia

General information

Donor:

Ethiopian Roads Authority

Industry:

Transport & Logistics

Consumer Goods & Services

Status:

Closed

Timeline

Published:

09 Feb 2017

Deadline:

11 Aug 2017

Value:

Not available

Contacts

Description

Service contract notice

Location — Ethiopia

1.Publication reference:

EuropeAid/139134/IH/SER/ET.

2.Procedure:

Restricted.

3.Programme title:

11th EDF.

4.Financing:

Financing agreement — FED/2015/37753.

5.Contracting authority:

Ethiopian Roads Authority, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA.

Contract specification

6.Nature of contract:

Fee-based.

7.Contract description:

Technical cooperation program to support the Ethiopian Roads Authority in the implementation of the road sector development program. The contract may include activities related to rural access, road maintenance, road safety and any other assistance to the Ministry of Transport or its agencies.

8.Number and titles of lots:

1 lot only.

9.Maximum budget:

1 500 000 EUR.

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 100 % of the 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 in tendering is open on equal terms to natural and legal persons (participating either individually or in a grouping — consortium — of tenderers) which are established in a Member State of the European Union, ACP States or in a country or territory authorised by the ACP–EC Partnership Agreement under which the contract is financed (see also item 29 below). Participation is also open to international organisations.

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 a 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 unless prior approval from the contracting authority has been obtained (see ‘Practical Guide’ — PRAG 2.4.3). 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 PRAG.

16.Subcontracting:

Subcontracting is allowed.

17.Number of candidates to be shortlisted:

On the basis of the applications received, between 4 and 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:

15.12.2017.

19.Provisional commencement date of the contract:

2.7.2018.

20.Initial period of implementation of tasks:

24 months.

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 unless specified otherwise. The selection criteria will not be applied to natural persons and single-member companies when they are subcontractors:
1) Economic and financial capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the application form). In the case of the candidate being a public body, equivalent information should be provided. The reference period which will be taken into account will be the last 3 years for which accounts have been closed:
1.1. the average annual turnover of the candidate over the last 3 financial years for which accounts have been closed must exceed 750 000 EUR;
1.2. current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) in the last year for which accounts have been closed must be at least 1. In case of a consortium this criterion must be fulfilled by each member.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the application form). The reference period which will be taken into account will be the last 3 years from the submission deadline:
2.1. at least 5 staff currently work for the candidate in the fields related to this contract, namely: road engineering, road construction technical assistance, management of road funds, programming and planning of road maintenance, road safety, road material engineering, logistics, field investigation, monitoring, research or data analysis in the transport sector;
2.2. at least 2 staff working for the candidate this year (2017) in the fields related to this contract are permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the application form). The reference period which will be taken into account will be the last 3 years from the submission deadline:
3.1. the candidate has provided services under at least 2 contracts in the field of road engineering, road construction and road asset management, such as management of road funds, programming and planning of road maintenance, road safety, logistics, road material engineering, field investigation, monitoring, research or data analysis methodology in the transport sector, implementation of rural roads projects which were implemented at any moment during the reference period: 9.11.2014 until 8.11.2017;
3.2. at least 1 of the contracts as per point 3.1 must have a budget of minimum 1 000 000 EUR (candidate's share in the project).
Previous experience which caused breach of contract and termination by a contracting authority shall not be used as reference.
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 a commitment on the part of those entities to place those resources at its disposal. Such entities, for instance the parent company of the economic operator, must respect the same rules of eligibility — notably that of nationality — and must fulfil the same relevant selection criteria as the economic operator. With regard to technical and professional criteria, an economic operator may only rely on the capacities of other entities where the latter will perform the works or services for which these capacities are required. With regard to economic and financial criteria, the entities upon whose capacity the tenderer relies become jointly and severally liable for the performance of the contract.
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 candidates. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are (in order of priority):
1) the highest number of projects in criterion 21.3)3.2;
2) the highest number of projects in criterion 21.3)3.1.

22.Award criteria:

Best price-quality ratio.

Application

23.Deadline for receipt of applications:

8.11.2017 (17:00), Eastern Africa time.
Any application received by the contracting authority after this deadline will not be considered.

24.Application format and details to be provided:

Applications must be submitted using the standard application form, the format and instructions of which must be strictly observed. The application form is available from the following Internet address:

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/annexes.do?chapterTitleCode=B

The application must be accompanied by a declaration of honour on exclusion and selection criteria using the template available from the following Internet address:

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/annexes.do?chapterTitleCode=A

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 in a sealed envelope:
• either by recorded delivery (official postal service) to:
Director General, Ethiopian Roads Authority, Ras Ababe Aregay Street, PO Box 1770, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. Tel. + 251 11 515 66 03. Fax + 251 11 551 48 66.
In this case, the delivery record is proof of compliance with the time limit for receipt,
• or hand delivered (including courier services) directly to the contracting authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Engineering Procurement Directorate, Ethiopian Roads Authority, Ras Abebe Aregay Street, 1st Floor, Main Building, Room No 106, PO Box 1770, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. Tel. + 251 11 551 50 02. Fax + 251 11 554 44 34.
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30–12:30 and 13:30–17:30; Friday 8:30–11:30 and 13:30–17:30.
In this case, the acknowledgment of receipt is proof of compliance with the time limit for receipt.
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.
By submitting an application candidates agree to receive notification of the outcome of the procedure by electronic means. Such notification shall be deemed to have been received on the date upon which the contracting authority sends it to the electronic address referred to in the application.

26.Alteration or withdrawal of applications:

Candidates may alter or withdraw their applications by written notification prior to the deadline for submission of applications. No application may be altered after this deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and submitted in accordance with item 25. The outer envelope (and the relevant inner envelope if used) must be marked ‘Alteration’ or ‘Withdrawal’ as appropriate.

27.Operational language:

All written communication for this tender procedure and contract must be in English.

28.Date of publication of prior information notice:

1.8.2017, notice number in OJ: 2017/S 145-298462.

29.Legal basis:

Annex IV to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23.6.2000 as amended in Luxembourg on 25.6.2005 and in Ouagadougou on 22.6.2010. Reference is made to Annex IV as revised by Decision No 1/2014 of the ACP–EU Council of Ministers of 20.6.2014.

30.Additional information:

Not applicable.

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