Contract notice: Consular services Tender in Switzerland - 15370933

Procurement Summary

Country: Switzerland

Summary: Contract notice: Consular services

Deadline: 26 Sep 2017

Posting Date: 02 Aug 2017

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 15370933

Document Ref. No.: 303479-2017

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Object of the contract
Consular services

Description: Contract notice: Consular 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: 75211110, 75211110, 75211110
CPV Description: Consular services.

Cooperation with external service providers (CESP) in the visa procedure — July 2018- June 2023.

The aim of the CESP project is to continue the cooperation with external service providers (ESP) in the framework of outsourcing administrative tasks in the visa procedure. The tasks to be outsourced are the following:

NUTS Code : CH0

Lot 1: Bahrain, India, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, UAE, Jordan.

Partial offers are permitted.

Conditions for countries not party to the WTO agreement: None.

Terms of business: n/a.

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 Organization's fundamental conventions in accordance with Annex 2a PPO (please see: http://ilo.org/global/standards/introduction-to-international-labour-standards/conventions-and-recommendations/lang--en/index.htm ). 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 bid.

Additional information: The option of directly contracting 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 6 Structure and content of the bid (Tender Document) and are to be submitted for each single lot in a sealed envelope as follows: a.one original signed hard copy labelled ‘Original' b.two signed copies labelled, ‘Signed Copy' c.one data storage device (e.g. CD, DVD or Memory Stick) of all requested documents. Language(s) for bids: English.

Remarks (Desired deadline for questions in written form)No information is given by telephone. Any questions must be addressed by the date indicated in Section 8 Timetable of the tender procedure (Tender Document) 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 the date indicated in Section 8 Timetable of the tender procedure (Tender Document). 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 31.7.2017, doc. 976969.

Desired deadline for questions in written form: 16.8.2017.

Documents of the invitation to tender are available from 31.7.2017 until 26.9.2017.

Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned is available in English. It 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 e-mail to download the documentation desired. As described in the tender document (section 1 & 8.2.2) the specific technical documents which are indispensable for creating the tender offer, can only be received after signing and sending the non-disclosure agreement (appendix Annex 01_Suitability Criteria, section 3.1) to the following email address: mailto:zed2@eda.admin.ch The said documents will be sent to the requesting bidder within 2 working days.


Internet address (URL): https://www.simap.ch
Directive: Classical Directive (2014/24/EU)

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