Purchasing of Meteorological Station Tender, Honduras - 24042673

Procurement Summary

Country : Honduras

Summary : Purchasing of Meteorological Station

Deadline : 27 Jun 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24042673

Document Ref. No. : HN-GOAL-866

Competition : ICB

Financier : United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : GOAL ORGANISATION
Tegucigalpa, Colonia Castaños Sur, Casa 1901, Calle Paseo Virgilio Zelaya Rubi
Honduras
Email :speakup@goal.ie / aclaraciones@hn.goal.ie / tenders@goal.ie
URL :www.goalglobal.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Purchasing of 1 Meteorological Station.

National Tender

Supply: Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Purchasing of 1 Meteorological Station in Distrito Central

Deadline: Submissions must be received by 27th June 2018 5.00pm local time

Reference: HN-GOAL-866

1 ABOUT GOAL
GOAL is an international humanitarian agency, currently operating in 12 countries worldwide, dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor. We are a non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political organisation. For more information on GOAL and its operations please visit www.goalglobal.org
GOAL is an international aid organization legally registered in Ireland, the USA and the United Kingdom, which has implemented more than $ 1 billion in humanitarian and development programs in more than 50 countries since 1977. GOAL Honduras (GH) has a multidisciplinary team of 80 staff specializing in Humanitarian leadership, economic development, sustainable urban development and resilience. GOAL Honduras (GH) has developed key innovations in resilience and systems approaches including the Analysis of Resilience in Communities to Disaster (ARC-D) Toolkit and the R4S or ´Resilience for Social.

2 PROPOSED TIMELINES

Line Item Date
1 ITT published June 06, 2018
2 Closing date for clarifications June 20, 2018 5.00pm local time
3 Closing date and time for receipt of Tenders June 27, 2018 5.00pm Local time
4 Tender Opening Location GOAL office in Tegucigalpa, Colonia Castaños Sur, Casa 1901, Calle Paseo Virgilio Zelaya Rubi.
5 Tender Opening Date and time July 02, 2018 at 2.00 p.m.
3 TERMS OF THE PROCUREMENT
3.1 SUPPLY SPECIFICATION
GOAL invites prospective suppliers to submit tenders for Meteorological Stations Distrito Central; the technical parameters must meet or exceed minimum specification requirements outlined.
• Supply and installation of 7 automatic Hydrometric stations (Hydrometers) for data transmission via GPRS
• Supply and installation of 7 automatic Pluviometric stations (Pluviometers) for data transmission via GPRS

Please see Appendix 2 Technical Offer for details of the requirement.
3.3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL
An Executive summary must be provided. The executive summary of your proposal must be concise, precise and less than 2 pages long. It must summarise how you will approach and execute this service contract from a management and logistical perspective.
3.4 ADDED VALUE FEATURES
With your offer please provide details of any additional services or functionality may enhance your proposal (limit to 1 page). Areas to consider would include the following:
• Remote sensor configuration capability
• Sensor alerts
• Ability to have new variables measurement parameters
• Ease of installation and programming
• Data backup capacity in data logger and equipment
• Update of equipment and work programs
• Automatic programmable calculations to determine dependent variables: Spraying point, temperature differential, daily maximums, daily minimums.
• Low capacity transmission packages (under transmission requirement)
4 TERMS OF THE PROCUREMENT
4.1 PROCUREMENT PROCESS
4.1.1 This competition is being conducted under GOALs Open National Tender Procedure.
4.1.2 The Contracting Authority for this procurement is GOAL
4.1.3 This procurement is funded by USAID OFDA and the tender and any contracts or agreements that may arise from it are bound by the regulations of those donors.
4.2 CLARIFICATIONS AND QUERY HANDLING
4.2.1 GOAL has taken care to be as clear as possible in the language and terms it has used in compiling this ITT. Where any ambiguity or confusion arises from the meaning or interpretation of any word or term used in this document or any other document relating to this tender, the meaning and interpretation attributed to that word or term by GOAL will be final. GOAL will not accept responsibility for any misunderstanding of this document or any others relating to this tender.
4.2.2 Requests for additional information or clarifications can be made as outlined in section 2. Any queries about this ITT should be addressed in writing to GOAL via email on aclaraciones@hn.goal.ie ; in the subject of the mail use HN-GOAL-866 Tender Meteorological Stations in Distrito Central.
4.3 CONDITIONS OF TENDER SUBMISSION
4.3.1 Tenders must be completed in English.
4.3.2 Tenders must respond to all requirements set out in this ITT and complete their offer in the Response Format.
4.3.3 Failure to submit tenders in the required format will, in almost all circumstances, result in the rejection of the tender. Failure to resubmit a correctly formatted tender within 3 (three) working days of such a request will result in disqualification.
4.3.4 Tenderers must disclose all relevant information to ensure that all tenders are fairly and legally evaluated. Additionally, tenderers must provide details of any implications they know or believe their response will have on the successful operation of the contract or on the normal day-to-day operations with GOAL. .Any attempt to withhold any information that the tenderer knows to be relevant or to mislead GOAL and/or its evaluation team in any way will result in the disqualification of the tender.
4.3.5 Tenders must detail all costs identified in this ITT. Additionally, tenders must detail any other costs whatsoever that could be incurred by GOAL in the usage of services and/or the availing of options that may not be explicitly identified/requested in this ITT. Tenderers- attention is drawn to the fact that, in the event of a Contract/ Framework Agreement being awarded to them, the attempted imposition of undeclared costs will be considered a condition for default.
4.3.6 Any conflicts of interest (including any family relations to GOAL staff) involving a tenderer must be fully disclosed to GOAL particularly where there is a conflict of interest in relation to any recommendations or proposals put forward by the tenderer.
4.3.7 GOAL will not be liable in respect of any costs incurred by respondents in the preparation and submission of tenders or any associated work effort.
4.3.8 GOAL will conduct this tender, including the evaluation of responses and final awards in accordance with the detail set out at in the Evaluation process. Tenders will be opened by at least three designated officers of GOAL.
4.3.9 GOAL is not bound to accept the lowest, or any tender submitted.
4.3.10 Information supplied by respondents will be treated as contractually binding. However, GOAL reserves the right to seek clarification or verification of any such information.
4.3.11 GOAL reserves the right to terminate this competition at any stage.
4.3.12 Unsuccessful tenderers will be notified.
4.3.13 The payment method will be 50% upon signing the contract (the supplier must provide a bank guarantee of 50% of the total cost at the contract stage) and 50% against delivery, installation and compliance with GOAL and Municipality of the Central District (AMDC).
4.3.14 This document is not construed in any way as an offer to contract.
4.3.15 GOAL and all contracted suppliers must act in all its procurement and other activities in full compliance with donor requirements. Any contract(s) that arise from this ITT may be financed by multiple donors and those donors and/or their agents have rights of access to GOAL and/or any of its suppliers or contractors for audit purposes. These donors may also have additional regulations that it is not practical to list here. Submission of an offer under this ITT assumes Service Provider acceptance of these conditions.
4.3.16 Terrorism and Sanctions: GOAL does not engage in transactions with any terrorist group or individual or entity involved with or associated with terrorism or individuals or entities that have active exclusion orders and/or sanctions against them. GOAL shall therefore not knowingly purchase supplies or services from companies that are associated in any way with terrorism and/or are the subject of any relevant international exclusion orders and/or sanctions. If you submit a bid based on this request, it shall constitute a guarantee that neither your company nor any affiliate or a subsidiary controlled by your company are associated with any known terrorist group or is/are the subject of any relevant international exclusion order and/or sanctions. A contract clause confirming this may be included in an eventual purchase order based on this request.
4.4 QUALITY CONTROL
3rd party companies may be contracted by GOAL to carry out random quality inspections of work carried out by the contracted party. The cost of the quality control inspections will be covered by GOAL.
In cases of supplier-s quality default in addition to Liquidated Damages section 21 of GOAL Standard Terms and Conditions the costs of the quality inspections and loading surveyor will be charged to the Service Provider.
Sub-contracting: note section II in GOAL Standard Terms and Conditions. GOAL may choose to visit vendors, including sub-contractors (if any) as per of the evaluation process.
4.5 SUBMISSION OF TENDERS
Tenders must be delivered in one of the following two ways:
1. Electronically with your financial and technical offers in separate emails to tenders@goal.ie and in the subject field state:
a) HN-GOAL-866 Meteorological stations Distrito Central
b) Name of your firm with the title of the attachment
c) Number of emails that are sent e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3.

2. Send physical offers using a sealed envelope marked with Meteorological Stations Distrito Central HN-GOAL-866 with the words “Do not open before the deadline July 02, 2018 at 2.00 p.m. local time, by the tender committee” with your financial and technical offers inside in two separate envelopes marked as Financial Offer and Technical Offer to the Private Tender Box c/o Colonia Castaño Sur, Casa 1901, Calle Virgilio Zelaya Rubí, Ofic

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