DM-Roseau: SFA — ICT development programme

Country:

Dominica

City/Locality:

ROZO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:204311-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 7, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 7, 2008

Buyer:

THE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL AUTHORISING OFFICER/EDF

Original Language:

English

Address:

THE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL AUTHORISING OFFICER/EDF
ROSEAU
Dominica

Email:

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Notice Type: 0708
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 152/2008
, #
204311-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Location — the Commonwealth of Dominica
Supply procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/127217/D/SUP/DM
2. Procedure: International open.
3. Programme: SFA 2005: ICT development programme.
4. Financing: Budget line: B-21.03.18 856/89.
5. Contracting authority: The National Authorising Officer of the
European Development Fund, Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Contract specifications
6. Description of the contract: The Government of the Commonwealth of
Dominica (GOCD) is pursuing information and communication technologies as
an effective means of economic diversification from the traditional
reliance on banana production. This programme seeks to enhance Dominica's
human resources which are an essential component in its efforts to use
ICTs for economic development and to play its full part in the global
knowledge economy. This contract will serve to provide the necessary
equipment to support increased capacity of primary and secondary schools
to equip students with ICT skills, initiate wider high quality ICT
education as well as to facilitate improved public sector processes and
practices.
7. Number and titles of lots: Lot 1: computers (desktops and laptops);
lot 2: printers — network lasers;
lot 3: computer software;
lot 4: servers;
lot 5: digital projectors;
lot 6: interactive and non-interactive whiteboards;
lot 7: networking equipment (switches, fibre optic tools, cables, patch
panels);
lot 8: routers and wireless access points;
lot 9: mobile laptop lab;
lot 10: universal power supplies and power strips.
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 when
submitting their tender. This guarantee will be released to unsuccessful
tenderers once the tender procedure has been completed and to the
successful tenderer(s) upon signature of the contract by all parties. This
guarantee will be called upon if the tenderer does not fulfil all
obligations stated in its tender.
Lot number and title; tender guarantee (euro);
1: computers (desktops and laptops); 3 000;
2: printers — network lasers; 100;
3: computer software; 300;
4: servers; 900;
5: digital projectors; 200;
6: interactive and non-interactive whiteboards; 50;
7: networking equipment; 200;
8: routers and wireless access points; 100;
9: mobile laptop lab; 300;
10: universal power supplies and power strips; 200.
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 best compliant tender.
13. Clarification meeting: No clarification meeting/site visit 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: The period from contract signature until
the provisional acceptance is set at 3 months.
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):
The objective of this criterion is to examine whether or not the tenderer
(i.e., the consortium as a whole, in the case of a tender from a
consortium):
— will not be economically dependent on the contracting authority in the
event that the contract is awarded to it, and
— has sufficient financial stability to handle the proposed contract.
Reference criteria:
— the average annual turnover of the tenderer must exceed the financial
proposal of the tender.
2) Professional capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 4 and 5 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
The objective of this criterion is to examine whether or not the tenderer
(i.e., the consortium as a whole, in the case of a tender from a
consortium):
— has sufficient ongoing staff resources and expertise to be able to
handle the proposed contract.
Reference criteria:
— has a professional certificate appropriate to this contract,
— has a minimum of number of 5 staff employed.
3) Technical capacity of tenderer (based on i.a. items 5 and 6 of the
tender form for a supply contract):
The objective of this criterion is to examine whether or not the tenderer
(i.e., the consortium as a whole, in the case of a tender from a
consortium):
— has sufficient expertise and experience to be able to handle the
proposed contract.
Reference criterion:
— the tenderer has successfully completed at least 2 contracts with a
budget of at least that of this contract in the past 3 years,
— the tenderer has worked successfully on at least 2 projects in fields
related to this contract in the past 3 years.
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 must respect the same rules of eligibility and
notably that of nationality, as the economic operator.
17. Award criteria: Price.
Tendering
18. How to obtain the tender dossier: The tender dossier is available
from the following Internet addresses:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/index_en.htm and
www.naodominica.org. 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:
The Office of the National Authorising Officer/EDF, PO Box 1102, 6th Floor
— Financial Centre, Kennedy Avenue, Roseau, the Commonwealth of Dominica.
E-mail: edf@cwdom.dm
(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 to the tender dossier shall be published on the EuropeAid
web site at http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/index_en.htm and
www.naodominica.org.
19. Deadline for submission of tenders: 7.10.2008 (14:00), Eastern
Caribbean time.
Any tender received after this deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender opening session: 7.10.2008 (15:00), Eastern Caribbean time,
Office of the National Authorising Officer, Government of the Commonwealth
of Dominica.
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 856/1999 of 22.4.1999
establishing a Special Framework of Assistance for traditional ACP
suppliers of bananas.

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