Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-12
Buyer: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Swiss Cooperation Office Amman
Country: CH
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 98300000
Submission deadline: 2017-08-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Sanitation solutions for underserved communities in Jordan — Inception Phase and Phase 1 — 2017-2021.
The project ‘Sanitation solutions for underserved communities in Jordan’ focuses on re-thinking sanitation systems, by improving existing Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and exploring the development of small scale Waste Water Treatment (WWT) and Faecal Sludge Treatment (FST) solutions. The goal of these improvements and developments is to increase WWT efficiency and sanitation coverage, and turn waste streams into physical and financial resource streams by ensuring and promoting safe reuse of the treated wastewater and faecal sludge. The focus is on Jordanian host communities as a whole, with a particular attention to be paid to unserved, vulnerable communities, as they are more and more impacted by the lack of adequate sanitation systems. The project will be subdivided into two distinct phases — the inception phase and the main phase.
In accordance with FAPP Art. 8 para. 1d, the contracting authority safeguards the confidential character of all information provided by the bidder. The information to be published after the award of the mandate and the information to be disclosed in the framework of the FAPP Art. 23 para. 2 and 3 remain subject to reservation.
Terms of business: General Conditions of Business (GCB) for Project Implementation Mandates — Version December 2015 These General Conditions of Business (GCB) shall be deemed accepted by the Contractor on submission of the offer.
Basic procedural principles: The contracting authority awards public contracts for services provided in Switzerland only to bidders who ensure compliance with the health and safety regulations and employment conditions for employees, as well as equal pay for women and men. If the service is provided abroad, the bidder must ensure at least compliance with the International Labour Organization's fundamental conventions in accordance with Annex 2a PPO. The self-declaration form ‘Compliance with working conditions, workplace health and safety regulations and requirement of equal pay for men and women: Declaration by the supplier’ has to be signed and is to be submitted with the offer.
Procedures for appeal: The tender proceeds in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Ordinance on Public Procurement (PPO). There is no right of appeal.
Deadline / Remarks: The ‘Technical Proposal’ and ‘Financial Proposal’ shall be submitted in one envelope and shall contain a. One original signed hard copy of the Technical and Financial Proposal labelled ‘Original’ b. Two signed copies of the Technical and Financial Proposal labelled, ‘Signed Copy’ c. One data storage device (e.g. CD, DVD or Memory Stick) of all Technical Proposal and all Financial Proposal Documents. The ‘Financial Proposal’ has to be submitted in CHF. Language for offers: English.
Remarks (Desired deadline for questions in written form)No information is given by telephone. Any question can be made by 24.7.2017 anonymously (i.e. without disclosing any information that could reveal the identity of the questioner) in the forum space at: www.simap.ch Questions submitted late cannot be answered. Answers will be published on www.simap.ch by 31.7.2017. Bidders are themselves responsible for downloading the answers from SIMAP and for taking them into consideration in the preparation of the bids.
Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be downloaded from the platform www.simap.ch under: Running procedures, Confederation, Invitations to tender. (https://www.simap.ch/shabforms/COMMON/search/searchresult.jsf ) In order to do so, you first have to register in the mentioned project. You will then be able to log in and use the password that you will have been sent by e-mail to download the documentation desired.