Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-16
Buyer: Region Aachen Zweckverband
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48200000 | 48600000 | 48800000 | 48900000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 272000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2020-10-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The central aim of the project ‘Cross-border Housing Monitor — Housing relevant interdependencies, housing stock and development and housing space reserves in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine’ is to counteract the existing cross-border intransparency and the separation of housing markets along municipal and national borders and to make a concrete contribution to strengthening the EMR as a residential location. In addition, the project aims at a close and coordinated development of housing relations in the tri-border region as well as a better information and communication of the resident population and the new citizens. An additional goal of the application is to create a symbolic effect for important milestones in the area of ‘sustainability of the housing market’. The biggest challenge is that due to a lack of information that is insufficiently up-to-date and missing cross-border information, increasingly important information for better and future-oriented cross-border cooperation is not available and the associated development opportunities for the border region are not being used. Central activities are a cross-border housing integration and housing market analysis and the collection of further comparable data relevant to housing. On the basis of this improved information base, a harmonised cross-border database is being developed, which will lead to a map-based web application. The digital informal planning tool will be based on extensive sources of information, will be automatically updated and will continue to exist beyond the end of the project. A monitoring system for the EMR will be established, which includes regional monitoring systems. Three sub-regional monitoring systems (Region Aachen, German speaking Community, Province of Liège) have to be newly established, the one for the Province of Limburg in the Netherlands is already available. The expected result and added value of this cooperation will be a new common information and cooperation basis in the field of housing, which does not exist in any European border region. It will enable a future-oriented cross-border and regional development for the EMR. This information will be made available to both the professional community and the general public. The information content will be adapted accordingly.
Region Aachen Zweckverband Rotter Bruch 6 52068 Aachen as stipulated under the project contract, services etc. will have to be delivered within the entire Euregio Meuse-Rhine (i.e. the region around Aachen, Liege and Maastricht).
The contract will provide for subsequential and based-on-each-other work packages which may be summarised as follows:
Work package I: procurement of missing data and information to ensure completeness of the relevant indicators and Accuray of the underlying data;
Work package II: development, construction and implementation of the EMR housing monitor application;
Workpackage V: additional services including e.g. trainings for users. More details can be found the project contract and its annexes published under the link mentioned sub I.3).
If more than 5 requests for formalistically acceptable application should be submitted, the contracting authorities will invite the 5 best ranked candidates to participate in the further procedure. The ranking shall be established pursuant to the following criteria:
1) number of relevant references: candidates with the minimum number of references will receive 1 point; candidates with 3 to 4 relevant references will receive 3 points; candidates with 5 to 6 relevant references will receive 5 points; candidates with 7 or more relevant references will receive 7 points;
2) qualification of the proposed project leader: candidates with the minimum number of references will receive 1 point; candidates proposing a project leader with 2 relevant references will receive 3 points; candidates proposing a project leader with 3 relevant references will receive 5 points; candidates proposing a project leader with 4 or more relevant references will receive 7 points;
3) qualification of the proposed deputy project leader: candidates proposing a deputy project leader with 2 relevant references will receive 3 points; candidates proposing a deputy project leader with 3 relevant references will receive 5 points; candidates proposing a deputy project leader with 4 or more relevant references will receive 7 points.
In case that candidates will receive an equal number of points, the Contracting Authority will extend the maximum number of participants of the further procedure (e.g. where 2 candidates are ranked on the 5th position or where 3 candidates are rankend on the 4
1) A number of additional documents will be published on the web indicated sub I.3. This includes, in particular, the draft project contract including its annexes, a process Letter 1 providing for more details on the procedure and forms to be used by candidates/bidders or consortiums of candidates/bidders.
2) More details on the award criteria in terms of section II.2.5) above can be found in the process letter 1.
3) Candidates/bidders are strongly recommended complying with the formal requirements; non-compliance may result in an exclusion from the procedure (e.g. due to non-using the forms published by the Contracting Authorities, delays in the submission of complete documents).

Eligibility requirements: 1) Excerpt from the commercial or professional register not older than 3 months (calculated from the day of the publication of this contract notice). 2) Self-declaration of the candidate, signed by a duly authorized person, that no reasons for exclusions pursuant Sec. 123 and 124 of the German Federal Act Against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen - GWB) apply; if such self-declaration cannot be made, candidates have to outline: (i) the reasons for this; and (ii) the reasons why the candidates considers itselfs to be self-cleaned in terms of Sec. 125 of the the German Federal Act Against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen - GWB). 3) A consortium of candidates/bidders has to submit a self-declaration on the form published via the link indicated sub I.3). Note: the documents listed above sub 1. and 2. have to be submitted for each of the members of a consortium of candidates/bidders.

Award value: 272000