Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-13
Buyer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Danida Business Finance
Country: DK
Region: EXTRA-REGIO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 75211200 | 79410000 | 79419000
Estimated value: 30000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2017-06-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Danida Business Finance (DBF) provides subsidized loans to infrastructure projects in developing countries — preferably above 100 000 000 DKK. The contract is a Framework Agreement according to which the winning company/consortium of companies will be invited to submit proposals for individual assignments and their particular terms of reference in relation to Technical Assistance to Danida Business Finance projects.
Engineering services combined with financial, socio-economic, and institutional expertise for the below range of services, having sustainability as a cross-cutting issue:
— Assistance in relation to drafting of documents to be presented to competent approving authorities in Denmark.
— Engineering and contract specialist assistance to Buyer/End User for Design, Elaboration of Pre-Qualification and Tender Documents, Evaluation Report, contract negotiations with winning contractor and setting up of contract with Buyer.
— Close collaboration with DBF during the phase of establishment of the Loan Agreement between a Danish bank and the Borrower and other related documents.
— Engineer's monitoring of implementation and verification of the project during its whole implementation period, verification at Taking-Over and at End of Defects' Liability Period. Specific Danida Business Finance conditions (being part of the Loan Agreement) must also be monitored.
Some of the assignments are short-term assignments; others cover several years, but are not full-time.
For more information regarding the services, reference is made to ‘Appendix 1 — Scope of Services’ to the Framework Agreement.
The limited number of candidates will be selected on the basis of an assessment of which applicants have presented the most relevant references for assignments delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA), Danida Business Finance (DBF) or organisations comparable to the MFA/DBF (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Agence Française de Développement or similar), in the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), seen in relation to the services to be provided, cf. II.2.4 and the description of what is considered project relevant references in III.1.3).In assessing the references, preference will be given to applicants who has presented references that cover as many as possible of the:
1. 4 service groups, cf. section II.2.4, which will be given the following weight in the assessment of no. 1:
2. 7 professional sectors specified in section II.2.4. All 7 professional sectors are equally weighed in the assessment of no. 2.
3. 3 above-mentioned language zones, cf. section II.2.4. All 3 language zones are equally weighed in the assessment of no. 3.
Re I.3): No additional information will be available as the tendering material has been published at the website set out in I.3.
Re: II.1.5 and II.2.6 is the estimated total maximum value for the entire duration of the Framework Agreement.
The applicant must submit the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) when applying for pre- qualification and provide the following information in the ESPD section IV, sub-section B, paragraph 1a:

Eligibility requirements: Not applicable.

Award value: 30000000