Local Fund Agent (“LFA”) Services in Namibia Tender, Switzerland - 26337973

Procurement Summary

Country : Switzerland

Summary : Local Fund Agent (“LFA”) Services in Namibia

Deadline : 26 Sep 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 26337973

Document Ref. No. : TGF-18-079

Competition : ICB

Financier : Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFFATM)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA (“THE GLOBAL FUND”)
Global Health Campus Chemin du Pommier 40 1218 Grand-Saconnex Geneva Tel: +41 58 791 1700 Fax: +41 44 580 6820
Switzerland
URL :https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Local Fund Agent (“LFA”) Services in Namibia.

1. Summary

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the “Global Fund”) invites all potential Offerors to submit proposals for providing LFA (Local Fund Agent) services with respect to grants funded by the Global Fund in the above country.

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to select an LFA that will provide best value to the Global Fund, when both technical and cost factors are combined.

The Global Fund will evaluate all proposals received in response to this RFP in accordance with the evaluation criteria described in this document.

The provision of services under this RFP will be governed by a Framework Contract that will contain the legal terms and conditions for such provision of services. If a new Offeror is selected following this RFP, such Offeror will sign a Framework Contract, a template of which is included in Attachment I, with the Global Fund. If the Offeror that is selected following this RFP has already signed a Framework Contract with the Global Fund, such Framework Contract will govern.

The Global Fund will issue a Purchase Order pursuant to, and governed by, the terms of the Framework Contract for the provision of services for an initial be 12-month period until the end of 2019. The commencement of services is likely to be 1 January 2019.

It is anticipated that further Purchase Orders will be issued annually to the successful Offeror beyond 2018, based on the needs of the Global Fund, and subject to satisfactory service provider performance and the Global Fund-s assessment of whether value-for-money continues to be achieved. Each Purchase Order will be based on a work plan including the relevant services negotiated annually with the successful service provider.

4. General Information

The Global Fund will evaluate all proposals received in response to this RFP in accordance with the evaluation criteria described in this document.

The proposal(s) must be valid for 180 days from the deadline for submission.

This Request for Proposals in no way obligates the Global Fund to award a contract, nor does it commit the Global Fund to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of the proposal. The Global Fund may (a) reject any or all proposals, (b) accept for award a proposal other than the lowest cost proposal, (c) accept more than one proposal, (d) accept alternate proposals, (e) accept part of a proposal, (f) waive informalities and minor irregularities in proposals received, and (g) cancel this RFP.

Submitting a proposal in response to this RFP constitutes an acceptance of the terms indicated herein and of the terms of each of these documents, including the Global Fund Framework Contract for Local Fund Agent Services (Attachment I). The Global Fund reserves the right to reject the proposal of any entity or individual, as the case may be, that fails or refuses to comply with, or accept, such terms.

No further additions to, or modifications on submitted proposals shall be allowed unless it is proven to be a bonafide typographical error or omission and that it may have material impact on the evaluation process. Such additions or modifications may only be effected with prior, written, approval from The Global Fund.

Offerors are solely responsible for their own expenses or losses, if any, in preparing and submitting an offer to this Request for Proposal. This would include any costs incurred during functional demonstrations and subsequent meetings and negotiations.

The Global Fund will be under no obligation to reveal, or discuss with any Offerors, how a proposal was assessed, or to provide any other information relative to the selection process. Offerors whose proposals are not selected will be notified in writing of this fact, and shall have no claim whatsoever for any kind of compensation.

The Global Fund may share questions received by, and answers given to, an Offeror with all other Offerors responding to this RFP, if those questions are submitted to the Global Fund before the Questions submission deadline referred to in the RFP Information Table above.

5. Proposal Submission Instructions

The Technical Proposal and the Cost Proposal must be submitted separately. The Offeror should not include any cost data in the Technical Proposal.

The proposal should be concisely presented and structured, and should explain in detail the Offeror-s availability, experience and resources to provide the requested services.

Proposals that are incomplete or do not address these criteria may not be considered in the review process. All proposals must be submitted in English.

Proposals must be submitted to the TGF Sourcing Application by the RFP Closing Time on the RFP Closing Date, as indicated in the RFP.

Offerors intending to submit a proposal must be “invited” to the RFP and thus any requests for a Supplier ID and Login should be made at least 48 hours before the RFP closing date.

All communications with regard to this RFP shall be in writing and submitted in the TGF Sourcing Application using the ‘Online Discussions- feature. No email queries related to the RFP will be entertained.

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