Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-01-17
Buyer: European Investment Bank
Country: LU
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71356200
Submission deadline: 2017-02-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Technical Assistance will support to National Electric Power Co. (NEPCO) and its PIU in the implementation of a multi-component investment programme aiming at strengthening the electricity backbone network of Jordan to ensure that renewable energy facilities (wind and solar) that are planned in the central Jordan desert area can be transmitted to the load centre of Amman. It consists of building two new transmission lines (400 kV/150 km and 132 kV/60 km), constructing one new electricity substation (400/132 kV, 800 MVA, expandable to 1200 MVA) with turn-ins from existing 400 and 132 kV lines, and modifying two existing substations (400 kV and 132 kV). To this end the Consultant will support NEPCO, acting as Owner’s Engineer towards the Contractors, in the coordination tendering and management of the construction of the project, and the management of its first years of operations. The selected consultant will be expected to provide advisory services in tendering, contract and work supervision, budget monitoring, testing and commissioning, operational management and capacity building (formal and on-the-job). In addition, the consultant will have the responsibility of developing and implementing a project specific communication strategy.
The Contracting Authority may, at its own discretion and subject to the availability of funding, extend the scope and duration of the project to cover complementary and/or additional services.
In case of complementary services, the extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding 50 % of the initial contract value. In case of additional services, such extension shall be up to a maximum not exceeding the length and value of the initial contract.
Participation is open to all interested legal and natural persons - participating either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates, without nationality restrictions. Participation is also open to international organisations.
All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11 above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping, or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all other members) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item 11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded.
No more than one application can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application, all applications in which that person has participated will be excluded.
Any tenders received from tenderers comprising firms other than those mentioned in the short-listed application forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Short-listed candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the contract in question.
As part of the application form, candidates must submit a signed declaration, included in the standard application form, to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations listed in Section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EC external actions.
On the basis of the applications received, between 4 and 8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed tenders for this contract. If the number of eligible candidates meeting the selection criteria is less than the minimum of 4, the Contracting Authority may invite the candidates who satisfy the criteria to submit a tender.
The initial period of execution of the contract shall be of 60 months. This period may be extended, with the prior approval of the Contracting Authority. See also item 10 above.
The following selection criteria will be applied to candidates. In the case of applications submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the application form). In case of applicant being a public body, equivalent information should be provided.
(a) The annual turnover (if the candidate is an individual company) or the average annual turnover (if the candidate is a consortium) of the candidate must be of at least EUR 1,000,000 for each of the last two years for which accounts have been closed.