21.Selection criteria
The following selection criteria will be applied to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the application form). In case of applicant being a public body, equivalent information should be provided.
(a) The annual turnover (if the candidate is an individual company) or the average annual turnover (if the candidate is a consortium) of the candidate must be of at least EUR 3,000,000 for each of the last two years for which accounts have been closed.
Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the application form)
(a) The number of the permanent staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium overall) currently working in fields related to this contract (as they are described in item 7 – “Contract Description” above), must be at least 15 for each of the last three years (2013, 2014, 2015).
Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the application form)
(a) The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has implemented, during the last 5 years (2011 up to the deadline for the receipt of applications indicated under item 23 below), at least 3 project(s) of a minimum value of EUR 500,000 equivalent, with activities related to the planning, procurement and implementation of large investment projects (min. EUR 30mil.) in the water and/or wastewater sector in developing or emerging countries, and should demonstrate that it had a participation of minimum 50% in each of the project(s) brought as reference. For the avoidance of doubt “planning, procurement and implementation of large investment projects” means Pre-feasibility or Feasibility studies; design and works supervision of multiple (>=3) components within one project/programme. An example would be a feasibility study including a water treatment plant, a transmission main and rehabilitation/extension of the network.
(b) The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has implemented, during the last 5 years (2011 up to the deadline for the receipt of applications indicated under item 23 below), at least 2 project(s) of a minimum value of EUR 500,000 equivalent, with activities related to the management of large investment projects financed by multi-donors in the water and/or wastewater sector in developing or emerging countries, and should demonstrate that it had a participation of minimum 50% in each of the project(s) brought as reference. For the avoidance of doubt “management of large investment projects” does not include Works Supervision contracts or Feasibility Studies. Instead “management” refers to managing the actual implementation of a project/programme.
Note to candidates: the projects referenced must have been completed before the deadline for the submission of applications. The candidate may refer to a part of an assignment which has not yet been completed, but only in so far as that part is successfully completed and its date of completion and the candidate’s contribution may be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary evidence (such as certificates from the client). Where the projects referenced have been implemented by consortia comprising two or more of the members now associated as a consortium for this tender procedure, their respective percentages shall be added together, in order for the application to be assessed on the basis of the consortium as a whole.
An economic operator may, where appropriate and for a particular contract, rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links which it has with them. It must in that case prove to the Contracting Authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an undertaking on the part of those entities to place those resources at its disposal. Such entities, for instance the parent company of the economic operator, must respect the same rules of eligibility and notably that of nationality, as the economic operator.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates must be re-examined to identify the eight best applications for the tender procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are, in order of precedence:
1) The number of projects brought as reference which comply with the requirements of criterion 3(a) above