Object of the contractAdministrative development project services
Description: Contract notice: Administrative development project services
Authority Type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Contact Nature: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
Document: Contract notice
Regulation: Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation
Award criteria: The most economic tender
CPV code: 75112100, 75112100, 75112100
CPV Description: Administrative development project services.
`Economic and Financial Analysis of SDC projects` for the period 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2025 (Lot 1: Processes to Improve the Overall SDC`s Knowledge and Capacities to Implement EFA and Lot 2 the Backstopping Mandate for the Implementation of EFA)
The Swiss Development Agency (SDC) is a governmental agency part of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), with head office in Bern. The section quality assurance and poverty reduction is responsible for results-based management (RBM) and quality assurance instruments. This tender process concerns a thematic and operational backstopping support mandate on economic and financial analysis of SDC`s projects.
Lot 1: Thematic support:
1) revision of the how to note on economic and financial analysis,
2) prepare an excel database of consultants,
3) training and learning.
Partial offers are permitted.
Conditions for countries not party to the WTO agreement: none.
Terms of business: general terms and conditions of business (GTC) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) for Mandates (Type A for employed persons and Type B for legal persons and institutions). These general conditions of business (GTC) shall be deemed accepted by the contractor on submission of the offer.
Negotiations: remain reserved.
Basic procedural principles: the contracting authority awards public contracts for services provided in Switzerland only to bidders who ensure compliance with the health and safety regulations and employment conditions for employees, as well as equal pay for women and men. If the service is provided outside Switzerland, the participant must ensure at least compliance with the International Labour Organisation`s fundamental conventions in accordance with Annex 2a PPO. The self-declaration form `Compliance with working conditions, workplace health and safety regulations and requirement of equal pay for men and women: declaration by the supplier` has to be signed and is to be submitted with the participant application.
Additional information: the option of directly awarding follow-up mandates is reserved.
Procedures for appeal: the tender proceeds in accordance with section 3 of the Federal Ordinance on Public Procurement (PPO). There is no right of appeal.
Deadline/remarks: bids contain all documentation in accordance with section 5 structure and content of the bid and are to be submitted in a sealed envelope as follows:
(a) one original signed hard copy labelled `Original`;
(b) one signed copies labelled, `Signed Copy`;
(c) one data storage device (e.g. CD, DVD or Memory Stick) of all requested documents.
Alternative for submission of offers due to exceptional situation of Covid-19: due to the exceptional situation of Covid-19 the bidders can by way of exception submit the bid by email only. In this case bidders send the bid (format pdf) to
[email protected] by 15 July 2020 12.00 midnight CET. Bids received late cannot be taken into consideration. They will be returned to the bidder. The email must mention `Economic and Financial Analysis of SDC projects` for the period 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2025` in the reference line. And bidders must confirm in the email the binding force of the bid. The receipt of the bids submitted via email will be acknowledged via email on 17 July 2020.
Remarks (Desired deadline for questions in written form): no information is given by telephone. Any questions must be addressed by 5 June 2020 in the forum space on www.simap.ch in anonymised form (i.e. without disclosing any information that could reveal the identity of the questioner). Questions submitted late cannot be answered. The answers are published on SIMAP by 12 June 2020. Bidders are themselves responsible for downloading the answers from SIMAP and for taking them into consideration in the preparation of their bids.
National reference publication: Simap of 15 May 2020, doc. 1133773
Desired deadline for questions in written form: 5 June 2020
Documents of the invitation to tender are available from 15 May 2020 until 15 July 2020.
Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: the documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be downloaded from the platform www.simap.ch under: running procedures, confederation, invitations to tender. In order to do so, you first have to register in the mentioned project. You will then be able to log in and use the password that you will have been sent by email to download the documentation desired.
Internet address (URL): https://www.simap.ch
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