Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-11
Buyer: The Secretariat of the Central European Free Trade Agreement 2006
Country: BE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 2200000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-01-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is to enhance trade facilitation and regional economic integration by enabling regular and systematic data exchange among all CEFTA Additional Protocol 5 stakeholders and providing upgrade and extension of the current SEED to SEED+ as stipulated by the CEFTA Additional Protocol 5 and its Technical Annexes (Appendix A).
2) customising and upgrading TRACES NT provided by DG SANTE to CEFTA TRACES NT to enable processing of phytosanitary, veterinary and pharmaceutical certificates within CEFTA Parties and data, information and documents exchange including exchange of information on non-compliant consignments for animals and goods (food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy) thus facilitating the risk management of rejected consignments;
3) upgrading customs SEED to SEED+ by establishing additional data exchange links, upgrading customs SEED modules and improving regional customs risk management;
4) supporting the green corridors initiative extension ensuring expansion of: data sets exchanged, number of agencies involved, products and economic operators, the number of involved BCP/CCPs, including those with the EU;
5) automating collection and analysing of statistical data from SEED+ to monitor and evaluate the implementation of trade facilitation instruments;
6) providing training and preparing technical and user documentation, ensuring overall security of data and platform, and providing support and maintenance.
Subsequent to the initial contract resulting from the current tender procedure,new services or works consisting in the repetition of similar services or works,up to the estimated amount of EUR 1 000 000, may be entrusted to the initial contractor by negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice, provided the new services or works are in conformity with the same basic project.
1) the tenderer must have a minimum annual financial turnover of EUR 2 200 000 calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last three (3) years (2019, 2018, 2017);
2) the tenderer must be in business for at least 5 years in implementing software development projects;
3) the tenderer must be certified according to the Information Security Management Standard ISO 27001 and Quality Management System Standard ISO 9001;
4) the tenderer must have at least ten (10) permanent staff (employees) that currently work for the tenderer in fields related to this contract;
5) the tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years, in the EU or the CEFTA Parties, at least two (2) projects involving development of customs IT systems or IT certification platforms supporting the importation/exportation of animals, animal products, food and feed of non-animal origin and plants, with a minimum value for services equivalent to EUR 1 000 000 each;
6) the tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years in the EU at least one project involving single window implementation;
7) the tenderer must provide at least three (3) customer references for contracts having run in the past five (5) years preceding the tender submission and covering implementation of interoperability platforms, SOA architecture, data analytics platforms and/or federated identity and access management.

Eligibility requirements: Award criteria: 1) the tenderer must have a minimum annual financial turnover of EUR 2 200 000 calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last three (3) years (2019, 2018, 2017); 2) the tenderer must be in business for at least 5 years in implementing software development projects; 3) the tenderer must be certified according to the Information Security Management Standard ISO 27001 and Quality Management System Standard ISO 9001; 4) the tenderer must have at least ten (10) permanent staff (employees) that currently work for the tenderer in fields related to this contract; 5) the tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years, in the EU or the CEFTA Parties, at least two (2) projects involving development of customs IT systems or IT certification platforms supporting the importation/exportation of animals, animal products, food and feed of non-animal origin and plants, with a minimum value for services equivalent to EUR 1 000 000 each; 6) the tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years in the EU at least one project involving single window implementation; 7) the tenderer must provide at least three (3) customer references for contracts having run in the past five (5) years preceding the tender submission and covering implementation of interoperability platforms, SOA architecture, data analytics platforms and/or federated identity and access management.

Award value: 2200000