21.Selection criteria
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.
Legal persons:
(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 exceed 1.5 times the maximum budget of the TA operation for each of the last three years (2014, 2015 & 2016) for which accounts have been closed.
Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided
(b) The average of cash and cash equivalents at the end and beginning of each year for the years 2014, 2015 & 2016 are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the application form)
(a) The number of the permanent staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium overall) currently working in fields related to this contract (as they are described in item 7 – “Contract Description” above), must be at least 20 for each of the last three years (2014, 2015 & 2016), in each of the sectors/field (transport, environment, energy and social infrastructure), (80 total/year).
Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided
(b) For each of the last three years (2014, 2015 & 2016), at least 30% of the overall number of staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium overall) is permanent. Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the application form)
Legal persons:
(a) The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has successfully implemented and completed, during the last five (5) years at least one (1) project (Projects presented as references must have started in or after January 2012 and have been completed and final payment made by the client at any time during the period of implementation up to the deadline of submission of applications as indicated under item 23 below), in each of the 4 sectors (transport, energy, environment and social infrastructure. Social infrastructure covers but not limited to education, health, culture, penitentiary, refugee centres etc.) of a minimum value of EUR 800.000 equivalent, with activities on pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, design, technical assistance in tendering procedures, Supervision of works etc, at national and/or regional level were regional level should be understood to be an area of coverage of the services provided which extends over at least two countries and should demonstrate that it had a participation of minimum 60% in each of the project(s) brought as reference; and
b) The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has successfully implemented and completed, during the last five (5) years, 3 projects of Technical Assistance for enhancing promoters and/or final beneficiaries capacity. Projects presented as references must have started in or after January 2012 and been completed and final payment made by the client at any time during the period of implementation up to the deadline of submission of applications as indicated under item 23 below) in IPA region/country level of a minimum value of EUR 700.000 equivalent and should demonstrate that it had a participation of minimum 60% in each of the project(s) brought as reference.
Note to candidates: Projects presented as references must have started in or after January 2011 and been successfully completed and final payment made by the client at any time during the period of implementation up to the deadline of submission of applications as indicated under item 23 below. Its commencement date, completion, the amount of the project reference and the candidate’s contribution must be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary evidence (such as certificates from the beneficiary). Where the assignments referenced have been implemented by consortia comprising two or more of the members now associated as a consortium for this tender procedure, their individual percentages shall be cumulated, so that the application is assessed on the basis of the candidate consortium as a whole. Note that reliance on the experience of another entity (natural or legal person) for the purposes of complying with the requirements of this selection criterion may not be considered appropriate by the Contracting Authority, regardless of the relationship the candidate has with that third party legal entity. In this regard, it is recommended that you include only those assignments for which you have been legally contracted by the Client (as individual contractor or as member of a consortium).
An economic operator may, where appropriate and for a particular contract, rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links which it has with them. It must in that case prove to the Contracting Authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an undertaking on the part of those entities to place those resources at its disposal. Such entities, for instance the parent company of the economic operator, must respect the same rules of eligibility and notably that of nationality, as the economic operator.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates must be reexamined to identify the eight best applications for the tender procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during this re-examination are, in order of precedence:
1) The number of projects brought as references which comply with the requirements of the reexamination criterion 3(a);
2) The number of projects brought as references which comply with the requirements of the reexamination criterion 1 above and implemented at regional level;
3) The number of projects brought as references which comply with the requirements of criterion 3 (b);
4) The value of projects brought as references which comply with the requirements of the reexamination criterion 1 and above.