Consulting Services For Development and Implementation of the Electronic Signature Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : El Salvador

Summary : Consulting Services For Development and Implementation of the Electronic Signature

Deadline : 09 May 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32112607

Document Ref. No. : FOM II-QBS-2449/2019

Competition : ICB

Financier : Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : “EL FONDO DEL MILENIO II”"FOMILENIO II"
Sergio Bassett Procurement Manager / Procurement Agent Procurement Agent Edificio Zafiro, Nivel 1, Bulevar Orden de Malta, Avenida El Boquerón #4-A, Santa Elena, Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad CP-1502 Tel: +(503) 2524 1039
El Salvador
Email :licitaciones@fomilenioii.gob.sv
URL :http://www.fomilenioii.gob.sv/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consulting Services For: Development and Implementation of the Electronic Signature.

The United States of America through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC, for its acronym in English) and the Government of the Republic of El Salvador (the "Government" or “GOES”), have entered into a Millennium Challenge Grant Agreement, for an amount of US$365.2 million (US$277 million from United States of America Government, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation and US$88.2 million from the Government of the Republic of El Salvador) (“Grant Agreement").

The Grant will be used to support the following activities: 1) Human Capital Project, 2) Investment Climate Project, 3) Logistical Infrastructure Project; and, 4) the installation and administration costs of the agency responsible for the implementation.

The Government, acting through “El Fondo del Milenio II”, hereinafter referred to as "FOMILENIO II", intends using part of the Funds for eligible payments under the terms and conditions established in the contract resulting from this method procedure of selecting a consulting firm, in a transparent and financially viable manner, according to the following detail:

REF. No.: FOM II-QBS-2449/2019.

TITLE: CONSULTING SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE.
Original title in Spanish: SERVICIOS DE CONSULTORIA PARA: “DESARROLLO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE LA FIRMA ELECTRÓNICA”.

PERIOD OF CONTRACT AND EXECUTION OF SERVICES: Two hundred seventy (270) calendar days.

DATE AND TIME (1) OF PRE-BIDDING MEETING: Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.

DATE AND TIME (1) LIMIT OF RECEIVING PROPOSALS: No later than Thursday, May 9, 2019, until 4:00 p.m.

Note: (1) official time of the Republic of El Salvador (UTC-06:00).

The pre-bidding meeting will be held at the headquarters of FOMILENIO II. Although it is not a mandatory meeting, it is highly recommended to attend all interested parties or their representatives.

Payments from FOMILENIO II shall be subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions, including restrictions on the use of MCC funding agreement. No party other than the GOES and FOMILENIO II shall be rights about the Agreement and shall be entitled to claim funds or resources of MCC.

Be excluded from participation in this procurement to any person or entity within the blacklist or suspended from participating in procedures funded by the World Bank or Federal Government funding of the United States of America, or otherwise prohibited by law of the United States of America or executive orders or policies, including under any existing anti-terrorism policy.

The consultancy service to be contracted under this Request for Proposals will be selected under the Quality Based Selection - (QBS) method, described in the respective Invitation document, according to MCC Procurement Guidelines, Section 1.A and its modifications, posted in http://www.fomilenioii.gob.sv/directrices-de-adquisiciones (if clicking on the link does not open the web address noted or some error occurs, please try to copy exactly the link text without add spaces, characters, or signs, and paste directly in the address bar of your browser and press "Enter" key or click on the "Go to" button).

With this publication, FOMILENIO II intends to obtain Technical and Financial Proposals from consulting firms, which will be evaluated in two stages: in the first stage the evaluation of the Technical Proposal of all the firms is carried out, once this evaluation is done, the results obtained will be communicated and at the same time, the best-evaluated firm will be convened at the opening of its Financial Proposal to be evaluated and negotiated. If this procurement is successful, it will proceed to the awarding and contracting, returning the financial proposals of the firms not awarded closed and without having been opened.

The objective of the services is focused on: Developing and implementing the Electronic Signature, specifically focused on the installation and operation of the public key infrastructure of the Root Certification Authority of El Salvador.

Interested consulting firms may obtain the Request for Proposals document, free of charge, at the address indicated below, starting from February 21th, 2019, on weekdays from Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. at 12:00 m. and from 2:00 p.m. at 5:00 p.m., official time in the Republic of El Salvador (UTC-06:00) or you can download the documents after free online registration, in the Procurement section of the FOMILENIO II website: https://www.fomilenioii.gob.sv/adquisiciones/procesos (if clicking on the link does not open the web address noted or some error occurs, please try to copy exactly the link text without add spaces, characters, or signs, and paste directly in the address bar of your browser and press "Enter" key or click on the "Go to" button) under the tab or menu of "Adquisiciones", select and search in the menu option: "Avisos Específicos", from the date indicated above or in physical form, without any cost, at the address indicated below.

ATTENTION: The interested consulting firms are informed that the offices of FOMILENIO II will be closed to the public from April 15 to 23, 2019 (both dates inclusive) for holidays. The foregoing must be taken into account by the consulting firms interested for all the planned dates and communications corresponding to this procurement.

Interested consulting firms who register through the FOMILENIO II website, and give their e-mail address, general data and expressing their interest in participating in this procurement, will receive notifications via the e-mail registered, related to clarification notes, amendments or any other necessary information about this procurement, issued by FOMILENIO II during the period specified in the invitation documents. Besides, such information will be available for public downloading, previous free online registration, in the FOMILENIO II website http://www.fomilenioii.gob.sv/adquisiciones/procesos (if clicking on the link does not open the web address noted or some error occurs, please try to copy exactly the link text without add spaces, characters, or signs, and paste directly in the address bar of your browser and press "Enter" key or click on the "Go to" button).

All proposals from consulting firms must be submitted in the Spanish language, by the authorization for the use of the Spanish language, granted by MCC to FOMILENIO II, which was issued on January 26, 2015. Proposals must be delivered and registered at the address mentioned below, no later than the deadline time and date indicated in the Request for Proposals.

Consulting firms should be aware that customs formalities and shipping distances might extend the estimated delivery time. Proposals that arrive after the established deadline time and date will be returned unopened.

The only official address is:

Sergio Bassett
Procurement Management / Procurement Agent - FOMILENIO II
Edificio Zafiro, Nivel 1, Bulevar Orden de Malta, Avenida El Boquerón #4-A, Santa Elena,
Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad, República de El Salvador- Centro América
Phones: +(503) 2524-1040, 2524-1064, 2524-1000
E-mail: licitaciones@fomilenioii.gob.sv


Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad, El Salvador, April 3th, 2019.

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