Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-05-06
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71520000: Construction supervision services
Estimated value: 450000 USD
Award criteria: price

Technical requirements: Design and Construction Supervision Services to improve the infrastructure for the delivery of healthcare and to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory infectious diseases at the Comfort Bay Home for Older Persons, the Soufriere Hospital, Dennery Hospital and Castries Urban Polyclinic as well as the Health Education Unit of Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs.
1. Comfort Bay Home for Older Persons; 2. Soufriere Hospital; 3. Dennery Hospital; 4. Castries Urban Polyclinic; 5. Health Education Unit of Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, the Implementing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for the Design and Construction Supervision of Works to Improve Healthcare Facilities.
The objective of the consultancy is to provide Design and Construction Supervision Services to improve the infrastructure for the delivery of healthcare and to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory infectious diseases at the Comfort Bay Home for Older Persons, the Soufriere Hospital, Dennery Hospital and Castries Urban Polyclinic as well as the Health Education Unit of Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs.   The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of twenty-eight (28) months. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest for the provision of these consultancy services.
Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:
a)	in the case of a body corporate, it is legally incorporated or otherwise organised in an eligible country, has its principal place of business in an eligible country and is more than 50 per cent beneficially owned by citizen(s) and/or bona fide resident(s) of eligible country(ies) or by a body(ies) corporate meeting these requirements;
b)	in the case of unincorporated firms, the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and 
c)	in all cases, the consultant has no arrangement and undertakes not to make any arrangements, whereby any substantial part of the net profits or other tangible benefits of the contract will accrue or be paid to a person not a citizen or bona fide resident of an eligible country.
Eligibility is extended to all countries which are non-member countries of CDB Consultants are advised to review the detailed eligibility criteria detailed in Section 4 and conflict of interest provisions in Section 5 of the Procurement Procedures for Projects Financed by CDB (January, 2021), as published on CDB’s website.
In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to technical competence, qualifications and experience, local and regional experience on similar assignments, financial capability and existing commitments. Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage. 
All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the mailing and/or email address below between 08:30 and 16:00 hours Monday to Friday. One electronic copy of the Expressions
of Interest must be received at pshealth@govt.lc no later than 16:30 hours (St. Lucia time) on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at procurement@caribank.org. The email shall include the subject, “Expression of Interest – Consultancy Services for The Design and Construction Supervision of Works to Improve Healthcare Facilities across Saint Lucia”.
Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be provided with full terms of reference and invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment. GOSL reserves the right to accept or reject late applications or to cancel the present invitation partially or in its entirety. It will not be bound to assign any reason for not short-listing any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.

Eligibility requirements: other