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04/07/2008 S128 Community institutions – Commission – Services – General information

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B-Brussels: exploiting the potential of continental and regional approaches to improve food security: 'better training for safer food in Africa'

2008/S 128-169277

Contract notice

Services

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s):

European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, attn: Paola Testori Coggi (Deputy Director General), Rue Belliard 232 (7/58), B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 295 34 40. Fax (32-2) 295 02 85. E-mail: paola.testori@ec.europa.eu.

Further information can be obtained at:

European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, Directorate D, Unit D3, attn: Mr Moustapha Magumu, Rue Belliard 232, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Fax (32-2) 299 85 66. E-mail: moustapha.magumu@ec.europa.eu. URL: http://ec.europa.eu/food/training_strategy/tenderers/calls_tenders_en.htm.

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:

European institution/agency or international organisation.
Health.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no.

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1) Description

II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Exploiting the potential of continental and regional approaches to improve food security: 'better training for safer food in Africa'.

II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

Services.
Service category No 12.

II.1.3) The notice involves:

A public contract.

II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

The tender is aimed at the provision of assistance for the organisation and implementation of capacity building activities (workshops, conferences, sustained missions and ad hoc assistance) in the sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) field in Africa, in order to strengthen national and regional SPS capacities in Africa, with reference to international standards.
The activities will support food security primarily via the transfer of knowledge, expertise and skills in areas of animal health, plant health, food safety and quality. This will help African countries to produce and distribute agricultural and food products compatible with international SPS standards, reducing the likelihood of food-borne diseases and related health and socio-economic burden, with positive knock-on effects on poverty alleviation.
The activities are to be implemented under 'Better Training for Safer Food', which is an initiative of the Commission (Health and Consumers Directorate-General). They are part of the Commission's Annual Action Programme 2007 for Food Security implementing the 'Thematic Strategy Paper and Multi-annual Indicative Programme 2007–2010' for the Development Cooperation Instrument.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

80420000.

II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

Yes.

II.1.8) Division into lots:

No.

II.1.9) Variants will be accepted:

No.

II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:

Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 4 000 000.

II.2.2) Options:

No.

II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion:

Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract).

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

A guarantee is mandatory for pre-financing payments exceeding EUR 150 000.

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

All necessary information concerning this point will be provided in the contract documents.

III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

All necessary information concerning this point will be provided in the contract documents.

III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

No.

III.2) Conditions for participation

III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: all necessary information concerning this point will be provided in the contract documents.

III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: all necessary information concerning this point will be provided in the contract documents.

III.2.3) Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: all necessary information concerning this point will be provided in the contract documents.

III.2.4) Reserved contracts:

No.

III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

No.

III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

Yes.

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Type of procedure

IV.1.1) Type of procedure:

Open.

IV.2) Award criteria

IV.2.1) Award criteria:

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.

IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used:

No.

IV.3) Administrative information

IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

SANCO/2008/D3/024.

IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

Prior information notice:

Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 82-110906 of 26.4.2008.

IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 5.9.2008 (16:00).
Payable documents: no.

IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

12.9.2008 (16:00).

IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:

Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:

Duration in month(s): 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender).

IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders:

25.9.2008 (14:00).
Place: European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, Rue Belliard 232, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel (the tenderers will be notified in case of change of date, time or place).
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Each tender is authorised to attend or to be represented by a maximum of 1 person. Attendance should be announced at least 1 week in advance.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement:

No.

VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU funds:

Yes.
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): Commission's Annual Action Programme 2007 for Food Security implementing the 'Thematic Strategy Paper and Multi-annual Indicative Programme 2007–2010' for the Development Cooperation Instrument.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

24.6.2008.

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