Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-09-07
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311100 | 71311300 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2017-10-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Support, supervision and guidance of design works for the development of tender documents in the Republic of Moldova.
The International Consultants (IC) will support, supervise and guide national/regional consulting firms from the Republic of Moldova (NC) during the elaboration of designs and complete sets of tender documents for the implementation of 9 Water Supply and Sanitation construction measures (Lot 1) and 8 Energy Efficiency construction measures (Lot 2).
Respective NCs, responsible for the particular elaboration of the designs and drafting of the tender documents, will be contracted by the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the Republic of Moldova. These national firms have to be supported, supervised and guided by the Consultants.
The IC will support, supervise and guide the NCs during the elaboration of designs and the drafting of tender documents for the implementation of 9 WSS construction measures. Feasibility Studies (FS) for all WSS projects were completed in 2016 and revised in 2017 and will serve as a technical basis.
The service of support, supervision and guidance will be facilitated through 3 concise field visits for each construction measure to the respective design teams in Moldova. GIZ considers up to 25 days altogether for each construction measure.
The first visit will be conducted shortly after commencement of the NC assignments. The IC will act as supervisor to the NC and shall thus ensure the development of suitable, adequately founded concept designs; potentially existing faults have to be eliminated.
The second visits will be conducted as midterm reviews and will provide the possibility of guiding the project's development and make sure the design teams are still on the right track. Close supervision and guidance for the elaboration of specifications, drawings and BoQs will have to be conducted during these missions.
The third guiding visits will be conducted in order to finalize the tender documents for the particular construction measures. At the end of the assignment, a complete set of tender documents (ready to tender) shall be approved and available for each construction measure.
The ICs will work under the supervision of department G230 at GIZ and will report the level of elaboration of each construction measure after each field mission accordingly. The IC will confirm to G230 the availability of a completed set of tender documents for each construction measure under their responsibility. The internal approval for each measure will be awarded according to reports received from the IC.
The assignments do certainly have a significant capacity development component, but the main focus is on the development of quality tender documents.
If GIZ receives more than 5 requests to participate, it will make a selection on the basis of the criteria laid out in the tender documents and invite bids only from the 5 companies with the highest scores. GIZ reserves the right to cancel the contract award procedure if it receives fewer than 3 requests to participate for this lot.
GIZ reserves the right to assign equivalent missions for up to three additional constructions measures to the original contractor of this tender in a negotiated procedure without prior publication. In this case, the additional services entrusted to the contractor will be in conformity with the services for the projects concerned by this tender.
The assignment will demand a high level of flexibility from the winning IC. The firm has to be able to cover work peaks with at least 3 experts at the same time working in the Republic of Moldova.
The IC will support, supervise and guide the NCs during the elaboration of design and tender documents for the implementation of 8 EE construction measures. Technical Assessments for all EE projects were completed and revised in 2016 and will serve as a technical basis.
The service of support, supervision and guidance will be facilitated through 3 concise field visits for each construction measure to the respective design teams in Moldova. GIZ considers up to 25 days altogether for each construction measure.

Eligibility requirements: The applicant/the consortium shall provide the following documents (separately for each lot if he/it applies for both lots): 1) a declaration that the applicant or the member of the consortium is registered in a commercial register; 2) a declaration on the personal situation of the applicant or the member(s) of the consortium, consisting of: a) a declaration on the absence of the mandatory reasons for an exclusion as per section 123 of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Competition Act — GWB) or on the remedial actions and the measures taken b) a declaration on the absence of the optional reasons for an exclusion as per section 124 GWB or on the remedial actions and the measures taken. For more detailed information see the tender documents.