Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-12-02
Buyer: Ministry of information society and administration
Country: MK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 12000000 MKD
Submission deadline: 2022-12-28
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The main purpose of the Central Population Register is to keep records for all persons living in the country, as well as for citizens living outside the territory of the country.
The subject of this procurement are services for the maintenance of the Central Population Register (CRN) solution and the implementation of new modules and solutions described in the technical specification below. The selected supplier is obliged to ensure high availability, ie operation of the entire solution in real time of 99.8% on an annual basis. The system consists of hardware infrastructure, system and application software with an established protected network connection. As part of the system, there is software for creation and management of access policies, software for monitoring change requests and reports from customers, code versioning software, video surveillance software, as well as software for accessing the control room from where the CRN solution management and upgrade is carried out.
The main purpose of the Central Population Register is to keep records for all persons living in the country, as well as for citizens living outside the territory of the country.
The subject of this procurement are services for the maintenance of the Central Population Register (CRN) solution and the implementation of new modules and solutions described in the technical specification below. The selected supplier is obliged to ensure high availability, ie operation of the entire solution in real time of 99.8% on an annual basis. The system consists of hardware infrastructure, system and application software with an established protected network connection. As part of the system, there is software for creation and management of access policies, software for monitoring change requests and reports from customers, code versioning software, video surveillance software, as well as software for accessing the control room from where the CRN solution management and upgrade is carried out.
As part of the bid, the economic operator shall secure bid guarantee (participation guarantee) amounting to at least 3% of the total bid value excluding VAT.
The guarantee should assume the form of bank guarantee. The contracting party shall deem all banks acceptable.
2.2.1 The Contracting Party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure if it determines that the economic operator, or the person who is a member of the executive or oversight body of said economic operator or who is authorized to represent or adopt decisions or to perform oversight over the economic operator, has been sentenced with an enforceable judgement in the last 5 years on committed crime that involves elements of the following crimes stipulated under the Criminal Code:
2.2.2. The contracting party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure, if an economic operator:
-  has unpaid taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges, except in cases when the economic operator has been permitted to pay taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges by means of deferred payment in compliance with special provisions and performs regular payment thereof;
- has been sentenced with secondary penalty - prohibition for participation in public call procedures, procedures for awarding public procurement contracts and public-private partnership contract;
- has been has been sentenced with secondary penalty – temporary or permanent prohibition to perform a particular activity;
- has been sentenced with misdemeanor sanction – prohibition to perform profession, activity or duty, or temporary prohibition to perform a particular activity, or
- issues false information/data or fails to submit information/data requested by the Contracting Party.
2.2.3 The Contracting Party shall exclude the economic operator from the public procurement procedure if the economic operator is listed under the list of issued negative references under Article 101 paragraph (3) of the Law on Public Procurements by the final deadline for delivery of bids or participation requests.
2.4.1 In order to prove its capacity to implement the relevant public procurement contract in terms of its technical or professional capability, the economic operator must meet the following minimum requirements:

Eligibility requirements: 2.2.1 The Contracting Party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure if it determines that the economic operator, or the person who is a member of the executive or oversight body of said economic operator or who is authorized to represent or adopt decisions or to perform oversight over the economic operator, has been sentenced with an enforceable judgement in the last 5 years on committed crime that involves elements of the following crimes stipulated under the Criminal Code: - participation in criminal organization, - corruption, -tax and payroll tax evasion, -terrorism or criminal acts related to terrorist activities, - money laundering and financing terrorism, and - child labor and human trafficking. 2.2.2. The contracting party shall exclude any economic operator from the public procurement procedure, if an economic operator: -  has unpaid taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges, except in cases when the economic operator has been permitted to pay taxes, payroll taxes or other public charges by means of deferred payment in compliance with special provisions and performs regular payment thereof; -  undergoes bankruptcy or liquidation proceeding; - has been sentenced with secondary penalty - prohibition for participation in public call procedures, procedures for awarding public procurement contracts and public-private partnership contract; - has been has been sentenced with secondary penalty – temporary or permanent prohibition to perform a particular activity; - has been sentenced with misdemeanor sanction – prohibition to perform profession, activity or duty, or temporary prohibition to perform a particular activity, or - issues false information/data or fails to submit information/data requested by the Contracting Party. 2.2.3 The Contracting Party shall exclude the economic operator from the public procurement procedure if the economic operator is listed under the list of issued negative references under Article 101 paragraph (3) of the Law on Public Procurements by the final deadline for delivery of bids or participation requests.

Award value: 12000000