Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-02
Buyer: Council of Europe Development Bank
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71240000 | 71248000 | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2016-06-27

Technical requirements: FR-Paris: Konsulentydelser i forbindelse med projekt F/P 1885 (2016) i Georgien, »Genopbygning – Renovering af offentlige skoler i Tbilisi og øget energieffektivitet«
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is issuing a Call for Tender in order to select a consultant for the provision of Consultancy Services for project F/P 1885 (2016) in Georgia, “Reconstruction – Rehabilitation of Public Schools in Tbilisi and Increasing Energy Efficiency”, N
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is a multilateral development bank with a social vocation. Established on 16 April 1956 in order to bring solutions to the problems of refugees, its scope of action has progressively widened to other sectors of action directly contributing to strengthening social cohesion in Europe.
The CEB represents a major instrument of the policy of solidarity in Europe in order to help its 41 Member States achieve sustainable and equitable growth: it thus participates in financing social projects, responds to emergency situations and, in so doing, contributes to improving the living conditions of the most disadvantaged population groups.
The CEB contributes to the implementation of socially oriented investment projects through four sectorial lines of action, namely:
The CEB is based on a Partial Agreement among Council of Europe Member States and, according to its Articles of Agreement, is subject to the Council's overall authority. Signed on 16 April 1956 by eight countries, the Bank is the first of the Partial Agreements to have been concluded.
The CEB thus operates within the framework of the Council of Europe and supports its priorities but it has its own legal personality.
At the end of 2015, approximately 200 permanent staff members of 30 different nationalities were employed at the Bank all based in Paris. The two official languages are French and English.
The Project consists of the refurbishment, modernisation, and structural and seismic strengthening of public schools, achieving 40% energy efficiency savings. The Project is located in Tbilisi, Georgia.
ESIDA, the Education and Scientific Infrastructure Development Agency is the implementing agency of this project. It is the public body in charge of the construction and maintenance of the public schools in Georgia, under the authority of the Ministry of Education and Sciences. ESIDA has identified the urgent need to reconstruct and refurbish approximately 35 schools in Tbilisi. Average school size is approximately 4,200m
The Project, which aims at refurbishing at least 25 of the 35 schools, will be financed by a €14 million CEB loan to the Georgian Government and an E5P (energy efficiency) investment grant of €6 million.
This Call for Tenders has been prepared for the purpose of inviting firms to participate in the open tender (“Tenderers”) in relation to CEB’s (the “Client”) requirements for the provision of Consultancy Services for project F/P 1885 (2016) in Georgia, “Reconstruction – Rehabilitation of Public Schools in Tbilisi and Increasing Energy Efficiency”.
The Assignment sets to assess as many as possible of the 35 schools identified by ESIDA in order to help ESIDA define a multi-year programme of construction works of approximately 25 schools which can be completed under this Project. In addition, the Assignment will identify three schools that can be worked upon immediately as pilot sub-projects; and will design and produce tender documentation for those three schools. It may also be necessary for the Assignment to review briefly the ‘Unified Set of Standards,’ which outline the minimum standards that this project is to achieve be delivered.
1. Assist ESIDA to select the schools to be rehabilitated on the basis of technical surveys/assessments of the conditions and needs of the schools, and on the basis of an estimate of the costs associated with their renovation. This selection would be based on technical surveys which are to be carried out by the Consultant on up to 35 schools pre-selected by the Georgian authorities.
2. Enable construction work to commence as soon as possible on three (3) appropriate school refurbishment pilot sub-projects, by developing the design and tender documentation necessary in tandem with ESIDA.