Contracts awarded

Date of publication Simap: 14.05.2020

1. Contracting authority

1.1 Official name and address of the contracting authority

Contracting authority/Authority of assignment: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Procurement authority/Organizer: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
The Middle East and North Africa Division - Development (MENA-D), Freiburgstrasse 130,  3003  Bern,  Switzerland,  E-mail:  willi.graf@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

« PERSPECTIVES » : Perspectives pour les jeunes tunisiens avec le soutien de la diaspora Inception Phase (April 2020-December 2020) and Phase I (January 2021 – December 2024)

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: Florian Meister
Name: Swisscontact, Schweizerische Stiftung für technische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Hardturmstrasse 123,  8005  Zürich,  Switzerland
Price (total price):  CHF 3'328'740.00 without VAT
Additional information: The total amount of CHF 3’328’740.00 includes an inception phase (service costs: CHF 66’275, administered project funds CHF 404’600) as well as the execution of phase 1 of the project (service costs CHF 3’262’465., administered project funds CHF 3’766’000)

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 the submitted bids.
The offer of the winning bidder convinced above all with excellent knowledge of the context(AC2) , the composition of the team (AC1) and a convincing balance between the intervention lines. The planning of the inception phase was also an asset (AC3).

4. Other information

4.1 Invitation to tender

Publications from: 23.11.2019
Organ of publication: www.simap.ch
Number of publication 1101933

4.2 Date of the award

Date: 07.05.2020

4.3 Number of offers received

Number of offers: 2

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.