Public document to be completed by
the Contracting Authority
Compulsory use for service tender procedures of EUR 200,000 or more
SERVICE
PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Technical Assistance in the Development of Human Rights, Democracy and
Citizenship Education (HRDCE)
1. Publication reference
EuropeAid/117280/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)
CONTRACT SPECIFICATION
6. Nature of contract
Technical
Assistance (Fee-based)
7. Contract description
The overall objective is to
strengthen Human Rights, Democracy and Citizenship Education (HRDCE) in schools
and society with related partners all over
Technical Assistance Team is
expected to assist to core group to perform the following services:
- Component
1. Adjusting the Legal base for Human Rights, Democracy and
Citizenship Education –core group 1 will scan and analyse existing
laws, regulations and circulars and make recommendations to the Board of
Education for approval.
- Component
2. Curriculum and educational material development - core
group 2 will revise existing curricula for the “Citizenship and Human
Rights Education” course taught in grades 7 and 8 in primary schools and
the “Democracy and Human Rights” for the secondary school and develop
appropriate educational materials including pre-school education.
- Component
3.
- Component
4. Awareness raising and
dissemination –core group 4 will support and strengthen
civil society organisations working in partnership with the Ministry of
National Education and local authorities in implementing HRDCE through a
grant scheme for inter-school activities. Furthermore it will design and
organise public awareness raising activities for parents and other stakeholders
to make them conscious of the importance of participation in school
related decision-making processes.
8. Numbers and titles of lots
N/A
9. Maximum budget
EURO 4.650.000
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, EU candidate countries and the beneficiary countries of
MEDA and CARDS programmes[1].
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
Sub-contracting
is allowed up to 30 % of the total contract value.
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
February 2005
19. Provisional
commencement date of the contract
July 2005
20. Initial
period of execution and possible extension of the contract
17 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
annual revenue of the candidate (single candidate or in case a consortium,
consortium members combined) must exceed € 4 million, in both of the last 2 years (2002,2003).
(b) The average of cash and cash equivalents (single
candidate or in case a consortium, consortium members combined) at the beginning
and end of each year are positive for the last two years (2002, 2003)
In the case of non-profit organizations bidding for
the contract, they will have to demonstrate no loss in the last two years (2002,
2003).
2)
Professional capacity of candidate [based
on items 4 and 5 of the application form]
(a) At least 10 staff currently works for the
applicant in fields related to this contract.
(b) At least 4 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]
a) Candidate (s) (single applicant or consortium as a whole) has worked successfully on
projects with a total budget over € 2.000.000 in the fields related to the
contract, involving multidisciplinary teams of a nature, and complexity
comparable to the proposed contract within the past three years (2001, 2002, 2003).
b) Candidate
(s) (single applicant or consortium as a whole) must have proven solid
experience in the provision of curriculum and educational material development,
capacity building and awareness rising and dissemination in the field of human
rights, citizenship and citizenship education.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above
selection criteria, the relative strengths and
weaknesses of the applications of these candidates will 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
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)
Ehlibeyt Mah. 6.Sok. No:16
Eksioglu Is Merkezi Kat: 4
BALGAT 06520
Phone: +90 312 472 3700
Fax: +90 312 472 3744
·
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)
Ehlibeyt Mah. 6.Sok. No:16
Eksioglu Is Merkezi Kat: 4
BALGAT 06520
Phone: +90 312 472 3700
Fax: +90 312 472 3744
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
19.09.2003
28. Legal basis
Council Regulation No.
(EC) 2500/2001 of