Contracts awarded

Date of publication Simap: 01.03.2019

1. Contracting authority

1.1 Official name and address of the contracting authority

Contracting authority/Authority of assignment: Departamento Federal de Asuntos Exteriores DFAE Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación COSUDE
Procurement authority/Organizer: Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación COSUDE
División América Latina y el Caribe
Oficina de Cooperación Suiza en Honduras, Colonia Palmira, Ave. Rep. de México, Casa No 2330,  0  Tegucicalpa,  Honduras,  E-mail:  tegucigalpa@eda.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

Honduras - Programa Gestión Comunitaria de Cuencas Fase 2: 01.01.2019 – 31.12. 2022

2.2 Service category

Service category CPC:  [27] Other services

2.3 Common Procurement Vocabulary

CPV:	98300000 - Miscellaneous services

3. Decision of acceptance

3.1 Award criteria

According to the invitation to tender

3.2 Tenderer considered

Attention: Cosortium GFA Consulting Group - Swiss Red Cross
Name: GFA Consulting Group GmbH, Eulenkrugstr. 82,  22359  Hamburg,  Germany
Price (total price):  CHF 3'215'736.00 without VAT
Additional information: The total amount of CHF 8'207'736 includes the execution of phase 2 of project (Services costs CHF 3.215.736, administrated project funds CHF 4.992.000)

3.3 Reasons for the decision to award

Reasons: After assessment of all evaluation criteria mentioned in tender document (qualitative criteria and price) the winning bidder has received the most utility points among all the submitted bids.
The winning offer convinced us that, in addition to the experience and proven institutional capacity to manage complex projects and issues related to the mandate (CA1), it has proposed a technical team with clearly defined roles and responsibilities and with the requirements of experience and professional qualification (CA2 ). Strategic proposal starts from a good analysis of the concrete problems in the basin around water and natural resources in general, with its socio-economic repercussions, including migration (causality-impact analysis). Based on this analysis and in clear connection with Phase 1, they propose their six strategic processes duly articulated with cross-cutting issues and the different support and management processes for achieving the expected results (CA3). Your organization proposal is very well presented and complete with a detailed calendar according to the logical framework integrating key moments for the achievement of results and the different management processes. Organizational structure is clear with a detailed organizational chart that shows the distribution of responsibilities and shows the link with partners at different levels and the relationship with management bodies (CA4). Its financial offer with cost structure is complete and quite clear, with financial planning for the entire phase both for the costs for services and for the funds managed and with the best balance between

4. Other information

4.1 Invitation to tender

Publications from: 03.09.2018
Organ of publication: www.simap.ch
Number of publication 1034245

4.2 Date of the award

Date: 25.02.2019

4.3 Number of offers received

Number of offers: 8

4.4 Additional information

The contracting authority reserves the right to award subsequent mandates to the successful bidder of this tender procedure if a change of bidder is not possible for economic or technical reasons, or would cause significant difficulties or incur disproportionate costs for the contracting authority.

4.5 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.