Services Procurement Contract for Consultancy Assignments in the Area of Skills Demand... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Jordan

Summary : Services Procurement Contract for Consultancy Assignments in the Area of Skills Demand and Supply

Deadline : 27 Jan 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 39548557

Document Ref. No. : JOR/180011T

Competition : ICB

Financier : Belgian Development Corporation (BDC)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : BELGIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Attn: Mrs Laura Jacobs / M. Abdelilah Touijar, Financial and Administrative Manager Jabal Al Waibdeh -Mohammed Iqbal Street, 33 Al Madineh, Amman
Jordan
Email :complaints@enabel.be / laura.jacobs@enabel.be
URL :https://www.enabel.be/fr/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Services Procurement Contract for Consultancy Assignments in the Area of Skills Demand and Supply

Consultancy Assignments in the Area of Skills Demand and Supply in Jordan within the Scope of the Enabel Action “Developing Skills of Vulnerable Youth and Syrian Refugees in Jordan”.

1 General provisions

1.1 Derogations from the General Implementing Rules

Chapter ‘Specific contractual and administrative conditions- of these Tender Specifications (CSC/Cahier Spécial des Charges) holds the specific administrative and contractual provisions that apply to this public procurement contract as a derogation of the Royal Decree of 14.01.2013 or as a complement or an elaboration thereof.

These Tender Specifications derogate from Article(s) 26 of the General Implementing Rules - GIR (Royal Decree of 14.01.2013).

1.2 Contracting authority

The contracting authority of this public procurement contract is Enabel, the Belgian development agency, public-law company with social purposes, with its registered office at Rue Haute 147, 1000 Brussels in Belgium (enterprise number 0264.814.354, RPM/RPR Brussels). Enabel has the exclusive competence for the execution, in Belgium and abroad, of public service tasks of direct bilateral cooperation with the partner countries. Moreover, it may also perform other development cooperation tasks at the request of public interest organisations, and it can develop its own activities to contribute towards realisation of its objectives.

For this procurement contract, Enabel is represented by M. Bart Uyttendaele, Resident Representative of Enabel in Palestine and Jordan.

1.3 Institutional setting of Enabel

The general framework of reference in which Enabel operates is:

- The Belgian Law on Development Cooperation of 19 March 20131;

- The Belgian Law of 21 December 1998 establishing the Belgian Technical Cooperation as a public-law company2;

- The Belgian Law of 23 November 2017 changing the name of the Belgian Technical Cooperation and defining the missions and functioning of Enabel, the Belgian development agency, published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 11 December 2017.

The following initiatives are also guiding Enabel in its operations: We mention as main examples:

• In the field of international cooperation: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Declaration on the harmonisation and alignment of aid;

• In the field of the fight against corruption: the Law of 8 May 2007 approving the United Nations Convention against Corruption, adopted in New York on 31 October 20033, as well as the Law of 10 February 1999 on the Suppression of Corruption transposing the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions;

• In the field of Human Rights: the United Nations- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) as well as the 8 basic conventions of the International Labour Organisation4 on Freedom of Association (C. n°87), on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (C. n°98), on Forced Labour (C. n°29 and 105), on Equal Remuneration and on Discrimination in Respect of Employment (C. n°100 and 111), on Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (C. n°138), on the Prohibition of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (C. n°182);

• In the field of environmental protection: The Climate Change Framework Convention in Paris, 12 December 2015;

• The first Management Contract concluded between Enabel and the Belgian federal State (approved by the Royal Decree of 17.12.2017, Belgian Official Gazette 22.12.2017) that sets out the rules and the special conditions for the execution of public service tasks by Enabel on behalf of the Belgian State.

1.4 Rules governing the procurement contract

The following, among other things, applies to this public procurement contract:

• The Law of 17 June 2016 on public procurement contracts5;

• The Law of 17 June 2013 on justifications, notification and legal remedies for public procurement contracts and certain procurement contracts for works, supplies and services6;

• The Royal Decree of 18 April 2017 on the award of public procurement contracts in the classic sectors7;

• Royal Decree of 14 January 2013 establishing the General Implementing Rules for public procurement contracts and for concessions for public works8;

• Circulars of the Prime Minister with regards to public procurement contracts.

All Belgian regulations on public procurement contracts can be consulted on www.publicprocurement.be.

1.5 Definitions

The following definitions apply to this procurement contract:

The tenderer: An economic operator submitting a tender;

The contractor/ service provider: The tenderer to whom the procurement contract is awarded;

The contracting authority: Enabel, represented by the Resident Representative of
Enabel in Palestine ;
The tender: Commitment of the tenderer to perform the procurement contract under
the conditions that he has submitted;
Days: In the absence of any indication in this regard in the Tender Specifications and
the applicable regulations, all days should be interpreted as calendar days;
Procurement documents: Tender Specifications including the annexes and the
documents they refer to;
Technical specifications: A specification in a document defining the characteristics of a
product or a service, such as the quality levels, the environmental and climate
performance levels, the design for all needs, including accessibility for people with
disabilities, and the evaluation of conformity, of product performance, of the use of the
product, safety or dimensions, as well as requirements applicable to the product as
regards the name by which it is sold, terminology, symbols, testing and test methods,
packaging, marking or labelling, instructions for use, the production processes and
methods at every stage in the life cycle of the supply or service, as well as the evaluation
and conformity procedures;
Variant: An alternative method for the design or the performance that is introduced
either at the demand of the contracting authority, or at the initiative of the tenderer;
Option: A minor and not strictly necessary element for the performance of the
procurement contract, which is introduced either at the demand of the contracting
authority, or at the initiative of the tenderer;
Inventory: The procurement document which splits up the performance in different
items and specifies the quantity or the method to determine the price for each of them;
General Implementing Rules (GIR): Rules laid down in the Royal Decree of 14.01.2013
establishing the General Implementing Rules for public procurement contracts and for
concessions for public works;
The Tender Specifications (Cahier spécial des charges/CSC): This document and its
annexes and the documents it refers to;
Corrupt practices: The offer of a bribe, gift, gratuity or commission to any person as an
inducement or reward for performing or refraining from any act relating to the award of
a procurement contract or performance of a procurement contract already concluded
with the contracting authority;
Litigation: Court action.
1.6 Confidentiality
The tenderer or contractor and Enabel are bound to secrecy vis-à-vis third parties with
regards to any confidential information obtained within the framework of this procurement
contract and will only divulge such information to third parties after receiving the prior
written consent of the other party. They will disclose this confidential information only
among appointed parties involved in the assignment. They guarantee that said appointed
parties will be adequately informed of their obligations in respect of the confidential nature of the information and that they shall comply therewith.
Privacy notice of Enabel: Enabel takes your privacy serious. We undertake to protect
and process your personal data with due care, transparently and in strict compliance with
privacy protection legislation.
See also: https://www.enabel.be/content/privacy-notice-enabel
1.7 Deontological obligations
Any failure to comply with one or more of the deontological clauses may lead to the
exclusion of the candidate, tenderer or contractor from other public procurement contracts
for Enabel.
For the duration of the procurement contract, the contractor and his staff respect human
rights and undertake not to go against political, cultural or religious customs of the
beneficiary country. The tenderer or contractor is bound to respect fundamental labour
standards, which are internationally agreed upon by the International Labour Organisation
(ILO), namely the conventions on union freedom and collective bargaining, on the
elimination of forced and obligatory labour, on the elimination of employment and
professional discrimination and on the abolition of child labour.
Any attempt of a candidate or a tenderer to obtain confidential information, to proceed to
illicit arrangements with competitors or to influence the evaluation committee or the
contracting authority during the investigation, clarification, evaluation and comparison of
tenders and candidates procedure will lead to the rejection of the application or the tender.
Moreover, in order to avoid any impression of risk of partiality or connivance in the followup and control of the performance of the procurement contract, it is strictly forbidden to
the contractor to offer, directly or indirectly, gifts, meals or any other material or
immaterial advantage, of whatever value, to agents of the contracting authority who are
concerned, directly or indirectly, by the follow-up and/or control of the performance of the
procurement contract, regardless of their hierarchical rank.
Any tender will be rejected and any (public procurement) contract will be cancelled once it
appears that the contract awarding or its performance induced the transfer of
‘extraordinary commercial expenditure-. Extraordinary commercial expenditure

Documents

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