GIZ Armenia intends to award contract to a local company for Independent expert assessment of the administration of the Fund for Socio-Economic Development of Armenian municipalities (Local Development Fund). The detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) of the assignment in English is attached to this Call for Proposals.
If you are awarded the contract, you are not excluded from bidding for the implementation of the following project phase. However, a prerequisite for participation in a subsequent tender is that you do not benefit from your involvement in the previous contract and that the equal treatment of all bidders is ensured.
Submission deadline
If you are interested in performing this work, please submit a bid in accordance with the GIZ bidding conditions described below till 07.05.2024, 17:00 (date of receipt at GIZ). Proposals received after the deadline will not be considered.
Your bid should be submitted electronically.
Electronical offer
Your bid, comprising the technical offer (company’s background, relevant experience, CVs of involved experts etc.) and the financial offer (signed document, including the number of working days of each expert) must be clearly marked as such, and submitted as two separate emails. Please send your bid to both vardan.ghazaryan@giz.de and narine.gharaghazaryan@giz.de with the following subject line: (The bids sent only to one of the above mentioned emails are not considered to be valid.)
· For technical offer with the subject line: 2024-01-GGLDSDC Technical Offer
· For financial offer with the subject line: 2024-01-GGLDSDC Financial Offer
All documents must be submitted in PDF format. Please do not put any other recipient in copy.
The technical offer must always be separate from the financial offer. Technical and Financial offers should be submitted in Armenian language.
Financial offer
The proposal package is to be submitted in AMD.
The payment will be done in local currency. Please include VAT exempted offer. Tax and customs privileges shall apply to this procurement. Please take this into consideration while preparing your company’s offer. The Tax Identification Number of GIZ is: 02898241.
Procedural questions
Please address any commercial, technical and procedural questions at an early stage. Questions will be answered if they are received at the latest two working days before the closing of the tender. Questions must be raised in writing by email only to:
Mrs. Tatevik Sargsyan
email: tatevik.sargsyan@giz.de
Evaluation of Offer
We will evaluate the technical and price information in the received bids (see Assessment Grid).
After the technical evaluation, only the price offers of bids with more than 500 points will be opened and evaluated. Technical offers below 500 points will be considered as technical not acceptable. The technical offer has a weighting of T: 70%, the price offer F: 30%. The following formula will be used:
The final result is an overall ranking, headed by the most cost-effective bid. Contract negotiations will be initiated on the basis of this overall ranking.
Annexes
2. Terms of Reference and 5 annexes to its references - Annex 1, Annex 2, Annex 3, Annex 4, Annex 5