Public document to be completed by
the Contracting Authority
Compulsory use for service tender procedures of EUR 200,000 or more
SERVICE
PROCUREMENT NOTICE
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/117198/C/SV/TR
2. Procedure
International Restricted
3. Programme
The National Pre-accession Financial
Assistance Programme for Turkey 2002
4. Financing
BG-UE-B2004-22.020401-ELARG
5. Contracting Authority
Central Finance and
Contracts Unit (CFCU)
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Fee-based
7. Contract description
The specific
activities to be performed under the scope of this contract are as follows:
- The Consultant shall review the Turkish
Telecommunications Law and relevant secondary legislation (whether issued
or drafted) in the context of the EU acquis and if necessary, make
recommendations to make them fully complaint with the EU acquis.
- The Consultant will draft and assist in establishing a
numbering regime compliant with the EU numbering regime including national
numbering plan and numbering ordinance, number portability, and carrier
selection and carrier pre-selection.
- The Consultant shall draft a tendering regulation for
authorizations based on a comprehensive research and assessment report taking
into account international best practices, EU member and candidate countries’
regulations and specific circumstances of
- The Consultant shall draft a regulation for effective
monitoring and auditing of the license holders.
- The Consultant shall prepare a strategic action plan to
improve organizational structure of Telecommunications Authority and
qualifications and skills of its human resources in order to make
Telecommunications Authority fully and effectively functioning.
- The Consultant shall provide technical assistance and
know-how about spectrum management, market surveillance activities and
acredititation of laboratories.
- The Consultant shall implement a comprehensive staff
training programme including seminars and workshops.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
N/A
9. Maximum budget
EUR 2,140,000
10. Scope for additional services
N/A
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
11. Eligibility
Participation is open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons of
the EU Member States and Turkey, to natural and legal persons from PHARE
candidate countries and the countries benefiting from the financial and
technical measures to accompany the reform of economic and social structures in
the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership (MEDA) and from the
assistance for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (CARDS).
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
(ie, the leader and all other partners) 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 one application can be submitted by a natural or legal
person (including legal persons within the same legal group) , whatever the
form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of
a consortium submitting an application).
In the event that a natural or legal person (including legal persons
within the same legal group) submits more than one application, all applications
in which that person (and legal persons within the same legal group) has
participated will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those
mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted
tender procedure. Short-listed
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 statement to
the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed in
Section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to
contract procedures financed from the General Budget of the European
Communities in the context of external actions (available from following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm).
16. Sub-contracting
No
sub-contracting is allowed, with the exception of the funds foreseen under
incidental expenditure, for which Practical Guide (PRAG) rules should be
applied.
17. Number of candidates to be short-listed
On the basis of the applications received, at least 4 and at most 8
candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract.
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender
July 2004
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract
October 2004
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract
12 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:
1) Economic and financial standing of candidate [based on item 3 of the application form]
(a)
The average turnover of candidate (single candidate or in case a consortium,
consortium members combined) must exceed 3 million Euro, over the last 3 years
(2001, 2002, 2003),
(b)
The averages of cash and cash
equivalents of the candidate (single candidate or in the case of a consortium,
each individual consortium member) at the beginning and end of each year must
be positive over
the last three years (2001, 2002, 2003),
2) Professional capacity of
candidate [based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form]
(a)
at least 15 staff
currently work for the applicant in fields related to this contract; and
(b)
at least 5 of all
staff working for the candidate this year (2004) in fields related to this
contract are permanent.
3) Technical capacity of candidate [based on items 5 and 6 of the application form]
The candidate (single candidate or the whole of the consortium) must
have practical experience of running at least one technical assistance project similar
to this project in complexity, contract value and nature - contracted within
the past five years - including:
(a) liberalization of telecom market in EU member states
and candidate states;
(b) alignment of national legislation with the EU Acquis
in the telecommunications sector;
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the
relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates must
be reexamined to identify the eight best applications for the tender
procedure. The only factors which will
be taken into consideration during this re-examination will be the comparison
of the relative depth of experience in the field related to this contract among
candidates.
22. Award criteria
As specified in the tender dossier annexed to the letter of invitation
to tender which will be sent to short-listed candidates.
APPLICATION
23. Deadline for receipt of
applications
Any application received after this deadline will not
be considered.
24. Application format and details to be provided
Applications must be submitted using the standard application form (available from the following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must be strictly
observed.
Any application which does not observe these provisions will be
automatically eliminated. 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:
·
EITHER by recorded
delivery (official postal service) to :
The
Central Finance and Contracts Unit (to the attention of Nuri Ercan Tortop)
Ehli Beyt Mah. 6. sokak No:18
Eksioglu Is Merkezi Kat: 4
Balgat / Ankara
06520
Tel:
+ 90.312. 2854620
Fax:
+90.312.2859624
·
OR hand
delivered (including courier services) directly to
the Contracting Authority in return for a signed and dated receipt
to:
The
Central Finance and Contracts Unit (to the attention of Nuri Ercan Tortop)
Ehli Beyt Mah. 6. sokak No:18
Eksioglu Is Merkezi Kat: 4
Balgat / Ankara
06520
Tel:
+ 90.312. 2854620
Fax:
+90.312.2859624
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.
26. Operational language
All written communications for this tender procedure
and contract must be in English.
27. Date of publication of contract forecast
28. Legal basis
Council Regulation (EC) No. 2500/2001
of 17 December 2001 concerning pre-accession financial assistance for Turkey
and amending regulations (EEC) No. 3906/89, (EC) No. 1267/1999, (EC) No.
1268/1999 and EC No. 555/2000