SUPPLY PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Development of Palliative Care Services in the
10SER01/10/21
1.
Publication reference
EuropeAid/129775/C/SUP/RS
2.
Procedure
International Open Tender
3.
Programme
IPA
4.
Financing
IPA 2010 National Programme
5.
Contracting authority
·
European Community, represented by the European
Commission on behalf of and for the account
of the beneficiary country
CONTRACT SPECIFICATIONS
6.
Description of the contract
The project shall contribute to the improvement
of health service quality in the health care system by introducing and
developing palliative care. It shall help upgrade the quality of health
institutions and increase access to the health care system for vulnerable
groups, by educating health professionals in the field of palliative care,
establishing a network of institutions for palliative care treatment at all
levels of care and the development of outreach programmes serving the
community. The equipment includes
procurement of vehicles for primary health medical centres and medical
equipment for general hospitals.
7. Number and titles of
lots
Lot2 – Medical Equipment
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
8.
Eligibility and rules of origin
Participation is open to all
legal persons participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium)
of tenderers which are established in a Member State of the European Union or
in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the
specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is
financed (see item 22 below). All goods supplied under this contract must
originate in one or more of these countries. Participation is also open to
international organisations. Participation of natural persons is directly
governed by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under which
the contract is financed.
9.
Grounds for exclusion
Tenderers must submit a signed
declaration, included in the Tender Form for a Supply Contract, to the effect
that they are not in any of the situations listed in point 2.3.3 of the
Practical Guide to contracts procedures for EC external actions.
10.
Number of tenders
Tenderers may submit only one
tender per lot. Tenders for parts of a lot will not be considered. Any tenderer
may state in its tender that it would offer a discount in the event that its
tender is accepted for more than one lot. Tenderers may not submit a tender for
a variant solution in addition to their tender for the supplies required in the
tender dossier.
11.
Tender guarantee
Tenderers must provide a
tender guarantee of 7.000 € for Lot 1
and 5.000 € for
12.
Performance guarantee
The successful tenderer will
be asked to provide a performance guarantee of 10% of the amount of the
contract at the signing of the contract. This guarantee must be provided
together with the return of the countersigned contract no later than 30 days
after the tenderer receives the contract signed by the Contracting Authority.
If the selected tenderer fails to provide such a guarantee within this period,
the contract will be void and a new contract may be drawn up and sent to the
tenderer which has submitted the next cheapest compliant tender.
13.
Information meeting and/or site visit
No information meeting is planned
14.
Tender validity
Tenders must remain valid for
a period of 90 days after the deadline for submission of tenders.
15.
Period of implementation of tasks
The period of implementation
of the tasks is 120 calendar days for the delivery, installation, putting into
operation, inspection and testing together with training of the supply from the
signature of contract by the parties. Provisional acceptance shall take place
within 30 (thirty) calendar days after the period of implementation of tasks.
Warranty will be provided for 1 (one) year after the endorsement of the
Provisional Acceptance by the Contracting Authority.
SELECTION AND AWARD CRITERIA
16.
Selection criteria
The following selection
criteria will be applied to tenderers. In the case of tenders submitted by a
consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a
whole:
1) Economic
and financial capacity of tenderer (based
on i.a. item 3 of the Tender Form for a Supply Contract)
·
Lot 1 &
2) Professional
capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 4 and 5 of the Tender Form for a
Supply Contract)
·
Lot 1 &
3) Technical
capacity of tenderer (based on i.a.
items 5 and 6 of the Tender Form for a Supply Contract)
·
·
Lot 2: the tenderer has successfully
completed at least 2 contracts in related fields with a budget of at least that
of this contract in the past three years (2007, 2008, and 2009, and this year
until the submission deadline of this application).
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 an undertaking 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 and
notably that of nationality, as the economic operator.
17.
Award criteria
Price (or, if appropriate after derogation, the best
value for money which is a combination of quality/price)
TENDERING
18.
How to obtain the tender dossier
The tender dossier is available from the following
Internet address: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?do=publi.welcome.
The tender dossier is also available from the Contracting Authority. Tenders
must be submitted using the standard Tender Form for a Supply Contract included
in the tender dossier, whose format and instructions must be strictly observed.
Tenderers with questions regarding this tender should
send them in writing to (fax plus e-mail) to the below-mentioned address:
Delegation of the European Union to the
Mr. Darko Popovic
Tel.: +381 11 3083 200
Fax: +381 11 3083 201
Finance and Contracts,
9th floor
GTC 19 Avenue Building
Vladimira Popovica 40
11070
(mentioning the
publication reference shown in item 1) at least 21 days before the deadline for
submission of tenders given in item 19. The Contracting Authority must reply to
all tenderers' questions at least 11 days before the deadline for submission of tenders. Eventual
clarifications or minor changes to the tender dossier shall be published at the
latest 11 days before the submission deadline on the EuropeAid website at https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/online-services/index.cfm?do=publi.welcome
19.
Deadline for submission of tenders
The deadline for submission of
tender is on 25th October 2010 at 12:00 (Central European Time)
at the following address:
Delegation of the European Union to the
Mr. Darko Popovic
Tel.: +381 11 3083 200
Fax: +381 11 3083 201
Finance and Contracts,
9th floor
GTC 19 Avenue Building
Vladimira Popovica 40
11070
Any tender received after this deadline will not be
considered.
20.
Tender opening session
The tender
opening session is on 25th
October 2010 at 14:00 (Central European Time)at the address indicated in
item 19, i.e the EC Delegation.
21.
Language of the procedure
All written
communications for this tender procedure and contract must be in English.
22.
Legal basis
Council
Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 of 17 July 2006 establishing an instrument for
pre-accession assistance (IPA)[1][1] .