SUPPLY
PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Institutional Building and
Access to Environmental Information
Ministry of Environment and Forestry
1. Publication reference
EUROPEAID/114883/D/S/TR
2. Procedure
International Open Tender
3. Programme
National Pre-Accession Financial
Assistance Programme for
4. Financing
Joint Co-Financing: EU Contribution (75%) - Budget line BGUE-B2004-22.020401-ELARG,
National Contribution
(25%)
5. Contracting authority
Central Finance and Contracts
Authority (CFCU),
CONTRACT SPECIFICATIONS
6. Description of the contract
The subject of
the contract is the delivery, installation, putting in to operation, training
and warranty service by the Contractor of various
telecommunication and networking facilities, server hardwares and related
softwares and training equipment.
7. Number and titles of lots
The contract will be in 2 (two)
lots
Lot 1: IT Hardware and Related
Software
Lot 2: Training Equipment
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
8. Eligibility and rules of origin
Participation is open on equal terms
to all natural and legal persons participating either individually or in a
grouping (consortium) of tenderers of the Member
States and Turkey, to natural and legal persons from the candidate countries
and countries benefiting from the financial and technical measures to accompany
(MEDA) the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and from the assistance for Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and
Montenegro (CARDS). All goods supplied under this contract must originate in
these countries[1].except for items
indicated in Article 10 of the Special Conditions.
9. Grounds for exclusion
Tenderers must submit a statement 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 financed by the general budget
of the European Communities in the context of external actions.
10. Number of tenders
Tenderers (including firms within the same legal group, other
members of the same consortium, and sub-contractors) may submit only one tender(s) for one or more
lots. 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 one lot. Tenderers are not authorised to tender for a variant in addition to the
present tender.
11. Tender guarantee
Tenderers must provide, when submitting their tenders, a tender
guarantee of 2% of the total offered value for each lot for which they are
bidding. 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.
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 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. Information meeting and/or site visit
No information meeting 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 execution
Delivery within 40 calendar days
after the signature of the contract by the both parties; installation, putting
into operation and training within 20 calendar days after delivery.
SELECTION AND AWARD CRITERIA
16. Selection criteria
Compliance with formal,
administrative and technical requ
17. Award
criteria
The lowest technically compliant price
TENDERING
18. How to
obtain the tender dossier
The tender dossier is available from
the following Internet address: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm.
Any prospective tenderer obtaining the tender dossier
from the Europe Aid website should advise the CFCU so that any changes to the
tender dossier may be communicated to them. Tenders must be submitted using the
standard tender form 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
Mr. Nuri
Ercan TORTOP
Central Finance and Contracts Unit
Ehlibeyt Mahallesi
6. Sokak No:16/8
Ekşioğlu İş
Merkezi 06520 Balgat/Ankara,
Tel No: (+90 312) 472 3700
Fax No: (+90 312)
472 3744
e-mail: ercan.tortop@cfcu.gov.tr
(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. The replies will be published on the following
web-site http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm
19. Deadline
for submission of tenders
Tenders must be received at the offices of the CFCU before
Any tender received after this
deadline will not be considered.
20. Tender
opening session
14.30 Hours (local) on
21. Legal
basis
Council Regulation Nr.
(EC) 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.
[1] EU Member Countries
(Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain , France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,
Slovenia), EU Candidate Countries (Bulgaria,
Romania, Turkey), MEDA Mediterranean Countries(Algeria, Cyprus,
Egypt, Gaza and West Bank, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria,
Tunisia),
CARDS Countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro).