Contracts awarded

Date of publication Simap: 06.04.2018

1. Contracting authority

1.1 Official name and address of the contracting authority

Contracting authority/Authority of assignment: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO
Procurement authority/Organizer: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO,  attn Alain Bühlmann, Holzikofenweg 36,  3003  Bern,  Switzerland,  Telephone:  +41 58 462 61 39,  E-mail:  alain.buehlmann@seco.admin.ch

1.2 Type of contracting authority

Confederation (Central federal administration)

1.3 Type of procedure

Open procedure

1.4 Type of order

Order for services

1.5 Scope of international treaties

No

2. Objects of procurement

2.1 Project title of the acquisition

Implementation of the SECO Entrepreneurship Program in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Peru, Serbia and Vietnam, procurement of the implementation for activities supporting entrepreneurship in those countries.

2.3 Common Procurement Vocabulary

CPV:	79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

3. Decision of acceptance

3.2 Tenderer considered

List of tenderers

Name: Swisscontact, Schweizerische Stiftung für technische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Hardturmstrasse 123,  8005  Zürich,  Switzerland
Price:  CHF 30'353'182.00 without VAT
Additional information: Financial offer including option for a second phase (as specified in the tender documents)

4. Other information

4.1 Invitation to tender

Publications from: 02.02.2015
Organ of publication: www.simap.ch
Number of publication 853821

4.2 Date of the award

Date: 08.05.2015

4.3 Number of offers received

Number of offers: 2

4.4 Additional information

This publication does not constitute a new award but aims to correct a formal error in the initial award note dated May 8, 2015. Said note did not mention the option for a second phase of the program which was clearly requested by the tender documents and included in the offer of the winning bid.