CM-Yaoundé: EDF — technical assistance for the 'Pasape' programme to support and assist the economic partnership agreement between Central Africa and the EU - dgMarket - Tenders and consulting opportunities worldwide

Country:

Cameroon

City/Locality:

GIAOYNTE

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:219456-2008

Publication Date:

Nov 15, 2008

Deadline:

Nov 30, 2008

Buyer:

SECRETARIAT DE LA COMMISSION SPECIALE DES MARCHES DU FED

Original Language:

French

Address:

SECRETARIAT DE LA COMMISSION SPECIALE DES MARCHES DU FED
YAOUNDE
Cameroon

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: 163/2008
, #
219456-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Cameroon
Service contract notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/125474/D/SER/CM.
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: European Development Fund.
4. Financing: Financing agreement No 9749/CM (accounting No 9 ACP CM 18).
5. Contracting authority: L'ordonnateur national du Cameroun, ministre de
l'économie de la planification et de l'aménagement du territoire de la
République du Cameroun.
Contract specifications
6. Type of contract: Unit-price contract.
7. Contract description: The aim of this contract is to recruit a
long-term, technical-assistant project leader who is an expert in
international development and trade and a specialist in supporting
international trade negotiations (EPA/WTO) and in economic integration.
The technical assistant will support the public-sector control of the
programme, as well as the national committee for monitoring and
coordinating negotiations of the EPA, its technical secretariat and other
parties involved in the Pasape programme.
The overall aim of the Pasape programme is to help build up
competitiveness in the Cameroon economy and ease its integration into the
regional and world economy through viable implementation of the EU-CA EPA.
The specific aim of the Pasape programme is to support the national
negotiation process, help monitor the EPA and improve competitiveness in
the Cameroon economy by providing support for production capacities,
modernising companies and strengthening the quality system.
8. Number and titles of lots: Not applicable.
9. Maximum budget available: EUR 675 000.
10. Object of additional services: Subject to the availability of
funding, the contracting authority may decide, at its own discretion, to
extend the term of the project and/or its object up to a maximum amount
not exceeding the initial contract value and duration. Any contract
extension is subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions for participation
11. Eligibility: Participation in contract procedures is open on equal
terms to natural persons and legal entities (irrespective of whether they
are taking part as individuals or as part of a grouping (consortium) of
tenderers) from the ACP countries and the Member States of the European
Union who contribute to the European Development Fund, and also to
international organisations as authorised by the instruments applicable to
the programme under which the contract is financed (see also point 30).
12. Application: Any eligible natural person or legal entity (as defined
in point 11) or grouping of said parties (consortium) may apply.
A consortium can be a permanent grouping with legal status or an informal
grouping created with a specific invitation to tender in mind. All members
of the consortium (i.e. lead company and all other partners) will be
jointly and severally liable vis-à-vis the contracting authority.
Should an ineligible natural person or legal entity (as defined in point
11) take part, the application concerned will be automatically
disqualified (in particular, the application from the whole consortium
where said party belongs to a consortium).
13. Number of applications: Natural persons or legal entities can only
submit 1 application irrespective of whether they take part as a sole
legal entity, or as a lead company or member of a consortium submitting an
application. Should a natural person or legal entity submit more than 1
application, all the applications involving said party will be
disqualified.
14. Prohibition on alliances between shortlisted candidates: Tenders
which include companies not mentioned on the application forms used to
compile the shortlist will be disqualified from this restricted procedure.
Candidates invited to tender may not form alliances or subcontract to each
other for the contract in question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: Candidates must sign and enclose with their
application the statement provided in the standard application form
confirming that they are not in any of the situations described in section
2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EC external
actions.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is not permitted.
17. Number of candidates invited to tender: A minimum of 4 and a maximum
of 8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this
contract, depending on the applications received.
Provisional schedule for activities
18. Scheduled date for dispatch of invitations to tender: 20.10.2008.
19. Scheduled date for commencing activities: 1/2009.
20. Initial contract term: The contract will run for 36 months.
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: The following selection criteria will be applied
to candidates. Should an application be submitted by a consortium, then
the criteria will apply to the consortium as a whole:
(1) candidates' economic and financial capacity (based on point 3 of the
application form):
(a) candidates' average annual turnover must be at least EUR 500 000;
(b) cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of the financial
year must be in surplus, overall.
(2) Candidates' professional capacity (based on points 4 and 5 of the
application form):
(a) at least 4 of the candidates' employees must be currently working in
fields connected with this contract;
(b) at least 2 of all employees working for candidates this year in fields
connected with this contract must be on permanent contracts.
(3) Candidates' technical capacity (based on points 5 and 6 of the
application form).
Candidates must have obtained good results in the past 3 years for 2 or
more projects where the budget was at least equivalent to the budget for
this contract and where the fields involved were connected with those in
this contract (international trade, business negotiations, economic
integration).
Economic operators may, if necessary and for a specific contract, make use
of the capacities of other bodies irrespective of the legal nature of the
connection between themselves and said bodies. In such an event, they must
provide the contracting authority with proof that they will have the
resources needed to carry out the contract by, for example, producing a
written commitment by said bodies to make such resources available. Such
bodies (e.g. economic operators' parent companies) must observe the same
eligibility rules, notably regarding nationality, as economic operators
themselves.
If more than 8 applications prove to be eligible, i.e. meet all the
selection criteria, then the strengths and weaknesses of these candidates'
applications will need to be re-examined to determine which 8 applications
for the invitation to tender are the most suitable. The only factors
considered in this re-examination will be the most relevant references in
the aforementioned fields involving EDF-financed projects during the past
3 years.
22. Award criteria: Economically most advantageous tender.
Application submission procedures
23. Final date for receipt of applications: Applications must be received
by 28.9.2008 (13:00), local time. If this date is a non-working day or an
official holiday in Cameroon, the deadline will be automatically moved
forward to the next working day.
Applications received after this deadline will be rejected.
24. Application submission procedures and information to be supplied: The
standard application form must be used for applications. This form is
available from the following web address:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/services/
index_fr.htm.
The clauses and format of this form must be strictly adhered to.
Additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) enclosed with the
application will not be considered.
25. Procedures for dispatch of applications: 5 applications (1 original
and 4 copies) must be sent in French exclusively to the contracting
authority:
— either by registered post (official postal service), to the following
address:
Secrétariat de la commission spéciale des marchés du FED, cabinet du
ministre de l'économie, de la planification et de l'aménagement du
territoire (MINEPAT), courrier confidentiel, porte 310, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Tel. (237) 22 23 36 37/99 24 33 13. Fax (237) 22 23 15 09. E-mail:
angoulapb@yahoo.fr,
— or by bearer (express courier services in particular), delivered
straight to the contracting authority, in return for a signed and dated
acknowledgement of receipt, at the following address:
Secrétariat de la commission spéciale des marchés du FED, cabinet du
ministre de l'économie, de la planification et de l'aménagement du
territoire (MINEPAT), courrier confidentiel, porte 310, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Tel. (237) 22 23 36 37/99 24 33 13. Fax (237) 22 23 15 09. E-mail:
angoulapb@yahoo.fr.
The contract title and the contract notice number (see point 1) must be
clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must be
quoted in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting authority.
Applications submitted in any other way will not be considered.
26. Amendments to or withdrawal of tenders: Tenderers may amend or
withdraw their tender by giving notice thereof in writing before the final
date for submission of tenders. Tenders cannot be amended once this
deadline has passed.
Notice of amendment or withdrawal must be drawn up and sent as per the
instructions given in point 25. The word 'modification' (amendment) or
'retrait' (withdrawal), as applicable, must be written on the outside
envelope (and on the relevant inner envelope).
27. Working language: All correspondence concerning this invitation to
tender procedure and contract must be in French.
28. Additional information: Not applicable.
29. Date of publication of the corresponding contract forecast: Published
in Official Journal S 80 of 25.4.2007.
30. Legal basis: ACP/EC Partnership Agreement, signed in Cotonou on
23.6.2000 and revised in Luxembourg on 25.6.2005.
Decision No 2/2002 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 7.10.2002
regarding the implementation of Articles 28, 29 and 30 of Annex IV to the
Cotonou Agreement.

Update: Nov 15, 2008

Notice Type: 0708
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Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 223/2008
, #
296066-2008
Referenced Document Number: 219456-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Summary:
Cancellation of an invitation to tender for services
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 163 of
23.8.2008, restricted procedure, 219456-2008)
Secrétariat de la commission spéciale des marchés du FED, cabinet du
ministre de l'économie, de la planification et de l'aménagement du
territoire (MINEPAT), courrier confidentiel, porte 310, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Tel. (237) 22 23 36 37/99 24 33 13. Fax (237) 22 23 15 09. E-mail:
angoulapb@yahoo.fr.
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/125474/D/SER/CM
2. Publication date: 23.8.2008.
3. Programme: European Development Fund.
4. Contracting authority: Ministre de l'économie, de la planification et
de l'aménagement du territoire, ordonnateur national pour le Cameroun.
5. Additional information: None.
NB:
Should a new invitation to tender procedure be launched for this project,
then a new contract notice will be published.
Therefore, interested natural persons or legal entities must not send in
applications or requests for information at this stage.

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