SERVICE
PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Technical Assistance to Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) on Gas
Transmission and Transit
Location -
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/117291/D/SV/TR
2. Procedure
International Restricted
3. Programme
The National Pre-Accession
Financial Assistance Programme for Turkey 2003
4. Financing
BG-UE-B2004-22.020401-ELARG
5. Contracting Authority
Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU) on behalf of The Republic of
Turkey.
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Technical Assistance (Fee-based)
7. Contract description
The project purpose is to ensure that BOTAS is
capable to fulfill its responsibilities related to natural gas transportation
and transit in compliance with the EU standards.
The Technical Assistance Team shall
provide legal and know-how support in component 1 and institutional improvement
of BOTAS in terms of gas transportation and transit in component 2.
The Technical Assistance Team is expected
to:
·
Cooperate
with EMRA (The Energy Market Regulatory Authority) to design or review of the
tariff methodology for intrastate, cross-border, transit gas flows and
non-discriminatory application of methodologies.
·
Adjust
the accounting principles and system for the transmission activities according
to EU rules and practices.
·
Examine
the existing gas release programme, gas purchase contracts and prepare the
required documents to be signed between BOTAS, the transferee and the supplier.
·
Work
on model gas transportation agreement to be used as a basis in agreements to be
concluded between BOTAS and import, wholesale, generation, export companies.
·
Develop
the national transmission network investment programmes and procedures for
cross border gas trade
·
Analyse
the multilateral agreements to which
·
Improve
organization structure, establish an effective information flow mechanism
to/from other transmission companies and EMRA, define the reporting requirements
for the transmission system operator, and prepare the guidelines, manuals and
procedures based on EU practise.
·
Develop
an appropriate software system at BOTAS that follow the maintenance and repair
activities of gas transmission network and also establish an electronic
bulletin board.
·
Implement
staff training on legislative, managerial and operational matters through
seminars and study visit.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
N/A
9. Maximum budget
1800000 EUR
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, EU Candidate Countries
and the beneficiary countries of MEDA and CARDS programmes[1], including
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
Subcontracting is allowed up to 30% of the project
budget.
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
September 2004
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract
March 2005
20. Initial period of execution and possible extension of the contract
21 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]
·
The average annual revenue of candidate (single candidate or
in case a consortium, consortium members combined) must exceed 2 million, over the last 2 years (2002,
2003)
·
Cash and cash
equivalents (single applicant or the total of the whole consortium) at the
beginning and end of each of the last two years are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate [based on items 4 and 5 of the application
form]
·
At least 10
staff currently work for the applicant in fields related to this contract; and
·
At least 5 of
all staff working for the candidate this year 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
has completed successfully on at least three projects with a budget of half of
this contract and similar scope in fields related to this contract in the last
three years.
·
The candidate
has solid experience in gas transmission and transit in EU member and/or
candidate countries
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 a 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 :
Central Finance and Contracts Unit
Mr. Nuri
Ehlibeyt Mahallesi 6. Sokak No: 16/8
Ekşioğlu İş Merkezi 06520 Balgat-Ankara/TURKEY
·
OR hand
delivered (including courier services) directly to
the Contracting Authority in return for a signed and dated receipt
to:
Central Finance and Contracts Unit
Mr. Nuri
Ehlibeyt Mahallesi 6. Sokak No: 16/8
Ekşioğlu İş Merkezi 06520 Balgat-Ankara/TURKEY
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. Additional information
N/A
28. Date of publication of contract forecast
28. Legal basis
Council Regulation No. (EC) 2500/2001 of