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Invitation For Bid

Selection of Consulting Services for:

Technical assistance and capacity building

 

Client:

Guangxi Fire Rescue Department

The Client’s Agent:

CMC International Tendering Co., Ltd.

 

Country: People’s Republic of China

 

Project:

Industrial Risks Management and Prevention 

in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China

Issued on 2021 04

 

CMC International Tendering Co., Ltd. entrusted by the Client, invites sealed bids from eligible suppliers home and abroad for the supply of the following service by way of International Competitive Bidding. The tender notice is released on www.dgmarket.com, www.cebpubservice.com,www.china-tender.com.cn on 2021-04-09.

1.Bidding Conditions

The Project financed by AFD includes 2 parts:

• Equipment procurement: purchase of fire vehicles and equipment.
• Capacity building with trainings and comparative study for risk assessment and emergency planning between practices in China and international good practices.

 

The current Request for Proposal addresses the capacity building part of the Project.

 

The final goal of the Services is to enable Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to improve their industrial risks prevention system according to the following specific objectives:

• To carry out a comparative study on the analysis of risk prevention and management capabilities of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone industrial park and an international industrial park, functioning / supervised under international recognized good practices such as European standards / good practices, or equivalent,
• To organize a study tour on emergency management in a country where European or equivalent standards / good practices, are in place for cadres (including internal trainers) at the government level in order to learn about organizational good practices,
• To organize a training for fire command officers (including internal trainers) abroad to learn about emergency management good practices,
• To invite international experts to Guangxi to train first-line firefighters at the grass-roots level.

Source of Funds：obtained

2.Bidding Content：

Bidding No：0702-2150CITC0047

Project Name：Selection of Consulting Services for Technical assistance and capacity building for the project of Industrial Risks Management and Prevention 

in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China

Place of Implementation：Guangxi  Zhuang Autonomous Region

List of Products：

*NO.	*Product Name	*Quantity	*Main Technical Data	Remarks
1	Consulting Services	1	Refer to TORs in the Request For Proposals	None

 

The Services include following tasks:

 

Task 1: Research project on a comparative analysis of risk prevention and management capabilities in Chinese and European industrial parks

The objective of the task 1 is to provide an opportunity to the project owner to learn about the international good practices for risk assessment and risk management for industrial facilities, and in particular the method to define emergency plans based on the identification of major accident scenarios. It should be done with a research study comparing the risk prevention and management capabilities in Guangxi and in other countries.

 

Task 2: Organization of a study tour for emergency management cadres at the government level

Thanks to the visits and meetings with representatives of large industrial parks abroad and the exchange of experience and practices during a study tour, Guangxi government shall define the basis for decision-making to improve its industrial risk prevention capacity.

 

Task 3: Organization of a study tour for fire command officers (including firefighter-training staff)

Thanks to the visits, meetings with operators of industrial parks located abroad and the exchange of experience with fire command officers, and the training organized with a training center in charge of high level fire command officers for public services, Guangxi fire command officers shall understand the doctrine, guiding principles and good practices for fire command and therefore improve their current capabilities.

 

Task 4: Training courses in Guangxi provided by international experts to first-line firefighters at the grassroots level (including firefighter-training staff)

The objective of the training courses of the first-line firefighters at the grassroots level is to transfer the international good practices to Guangxi staff including firefighter-training staff (training of trainers).

 

The Services run through the entire project implementation period, i.e. roughly from 2021 to 2024

 

3. Qualification Requirements for Bidder

Eligibility criteria to AFD financing are specified in sub-clause 1.3 of the "Procurement Guidelines for AFD‑Financed Contracts in Foreign Countries", available online on AFD’s website: http://www.afd.fr.

 

The Client will examine the capacity of the Bidder based on criteria described in items below. All these criteria shall be evaluated on a pass/ fail basis only. Bids that are non-responsive to any one or more of the following qualification criteria and/or found enclosing fabricated and untrue information will be rejected outright.

 

If the Bidder passes the qualification evaluation, the further detailed evaluation will adopt the QCBS method (Quality and Cost Based Selection method).

1) The Bidder shall submit only one application, either in its own name or as a member of a Joint Venture (JV). If a bidder (including any JV member) submits or participates in more than one application, those applications shall be all rejected. However, the same Subconsultant may participate in several applications.

 

2) The Bidder shall have comparable contracts size in the past in the industrial risks management and prevention field.

 

3) The Bidder shall have experience in the Client’s country (PR.China).

 

4) The Bidder shall have experience with donors-funded projects.

 

5) The Bidder shall submit the original of letter of authorization issued by the Legal Representative and the copy of the ID card of the authorized person. If the Applicant is a JV, the proposal shall include: a copy of the JV Agreement entered into by all members, or a letter of intent to execute a JV Agreement, signed by all members together with a copy of the Agreement proposal. In the absence of this document, the other members will be considered as Subconsultants. Experiences and qualifications of Subconsultants are not taken into account in the evaluation of the applications.

6) Partnering with a local structure / with local expertise is encouraged for the Services Beginning of Selling Bidding Documents：2021-04-09

Ending of Selling Bidding Documents：2021-04-30

4. The potential bidders wishing to participate bid are requested to register free of charge at the China General tendering Network (www.china-tender.com.cn) from April 09, 2021 till April 30, 2021 (Beijing Time) upon non-refundable payment of RMB 800.00 or Euro100.00 for each set of Request for proposal. Technical support Tel: 8610-63348126/4006808126”

After completing the purchase application on China General tendering Network, bidders can download the bidding documents after payment is completed in accordance with the instructions.

Bidders who purchaser the Request For Proposal by Telegraphic Transfer shall remit to:

Beneficiary: CMC International Tendering Co., Ltd.

Bank:Bank of China, Beijing Xicheng Sub-branch

Account No.: 3233 6606 6071

 

 

 

 

 

Appendix to the qualification criteria (To be submitted with the application, signed and unaltered)

 

Statement of Integrity, Eligibility and Environmental and Social Responsibility

 

Reference of the bid or proposal ____________________________________ (the "Contract")

To: _______________________________________________ (the "Contracting Authority")

 

1. We recognise and accept that Agence Française de Développement ("AFD") only finances projects of the Contracting Authority subject to its own conditions, which are set out in the Financing Agreement, which benefits directly or indirectly to the Contracting Authority. As a matter of consequence, no legal relationship exists between AFD and our company, our joint venture or our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants. The Contracting Authority retains exclusive responsibility for the preparation and implementation of the procurement process and performance of the contract. The Contracting Authority means the Purchaser, the Employer, the Client, as the case may be, for the procurement of goods, works, plants, consulting services or non-consulting services.
2. We hereby certify that neither we nor any other member of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants are in any of the following situations:

 

2.1     Being bankrupt, wound up or ceasing our activities, having our activities administered by the courts, having entered into receivership, reorganisation or being in any analogous situation arising from any similar procedure;

2.2     Having been:

1. convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata in the country where the Contract is implemented, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such conviction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this conviction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
2. subject to an administrative sanction within the past five years by the European Union or by the competent authorities of the country where we are constituted, for fraud, corruption or for any other offense committed during a procurement process or performance of a contract (in the event of such sanction, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this sanction is not relevant in the context of this Contract);
3. convicted, within the past five years by a court decision, which has the force of res judicata, of fraud, corruption or of any other offense committed during the procurement process or performance of an AFD-financed contract;

 

2.3     Being listed for financial sanctions by the United Nations, the European Union and/or France for the purposes of fight-against-terrorist financing or threat to international peace and security;

2.4     Having been subject within the past five years to a contract termination fully settled against us for significant or persistent failure to comply with our contractual obligations during contract performance, unless this termination was challenged and dispute resolution is still pending or has not confirmed a full settlement against us;

2.5     Not having fulfilled our fiscal obligations regarding payments of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of either the country where we are constituted or the Contracting Authority's country;

2.6     Being subject to an exclusion decision of the World Bank and being listed on the website http://www.worldbank.org/debarr (in the event of such exclusion, you may attach to this Statement of Integrity supporting information showing that this exclusion is not relevant in the context of this Contract);

2.7     Having created false documents or committed misrepresentation in documentation requested by the Contracting Authority as part of the procurement process of this Contract.

3. We hereby certify that neither we, nor any of the members of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants are in any of the following situations of conflict of interest:

 

3.1     Being an affiliate controlled by the Contracting Authority or a shareholder controlling the Contracting Authority, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;

3.2     Having a business or family relationship with a Contracting Authority's staff involved in the procurement process or the supervision of the resulting Contract, unless the stemming conflict of interest has been brought to the attention of AFD and resolved to its satisfaction;

3.3     Being controlled by or controlling another bidder or consultant, or being under common control with another bidder or consultant, or receiving from or granting subsidies directly or indirectly to another bidder or consultant, having the same legal representative as another bidder or consultant, maintaining direct or indirect contacts with another bidder or consultant which allows us to have or give access to information contained in the respective applications, bids or proposals, influencing them or influencing decisions of the Contracting Authority;

3.4     Being engaged in a consulting services activity, which, by its nature, may be in conflict with the assignments that we would carry out for the Contracting Authority;

3.5     In the case of procurement of goods, works or plants:

1. Having prepared or having been associated with a consultant who prepared specifications, drawings, calculations and other documentation to be used in the procurement process of this Contract;
2. Having been recruited (or being proposed to be recruited) ourselves or any of our affiliates, to carry out works supervision or inspection for this Contract.

 

4. If we are a state-owned entity, and to compete in a procurement process, we certify that we have legal and financial autonomy and that we operate under commercial laws and regulations.

 

5. We undertake to bring to the attention of the Contracting Authority, which will inform AFD, any change in situation with regard to points 2 to 4 here above.

 

6. In the context of the procurement process and performance of the corresponding contract:

 

6.1     We have not and we will not engage in any dishonest conduct (act or omission) deliberately indented to deceive others, to intentionally conceal items, to violate or vitiate someone's consent, to make them circumvent legal or regulatory requirements and/or to violate their internal rules in order to obtain illegitimate profit;

6.2     We have not and we will not engage in any dishonest conduct (act or omission) contrary to our legal or regulatory obligations or our internal rules in order to obtain illegitimate profit;

6.3     We have not promised, offered or given and we will not promise, offer or give, directly or indirectly to (i) any Person who holds a legislative, executive, administrative or judicial mandate within the State of the Contracting Authority regardless of whether that Person was nominated or elected, regardless of the permanent or temporary, paid or unpaid nature of the position and regardless of the hierarchical level the Person occupies, (ii) any other Person who performs a public function, including for a State institution or a State‑owned company, or who provides a public service, or (iii) any other person defined as a Public Officer by the national laws of the Contracting Authority’s country, an undue advantage of any kind, for himself or for another Person or entity, for such Public Officer to act or refrain from acting in his official capacity;

6.4     We have not promised, offered or given and we will not promise, offer or give, directly or indirectly to any Person who occupies an executive position in a private sector entity or works for such an entity, regardless of the nature of his/her capacity, any undue advantage of any kind, for himself or another Person or entity for such Person to perform or refrain from performing any act in breach of its legal, contractual or professional obligations;

6.5     We have not and we will not engage in any practice likely to influence the contract award process to the detriment of the Contracting Authority and, in particular, in any anti‑competitive practice having for object or for effect to prevent, restrict or distort competition, namely by limiting access to the market or the free exercise of competition by other undertakings;

6.6     Neither we nor any of the members of our joint venture or any of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants shall acquire or supply any equipment nor operate in any sectors under an embargo of the United Nations, the European Union or France;

6.7     We commit ourselves to comply with and ensure that all of our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants comply with international environmental and labour standards, consistent with laws and regulations applicable in the country of implementation of the Contract, including the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and international environmental treaties. Moreover, we shall implement environmental and social risks mitigation measures when specified in the environmental and social commitment plan (ESCP) provided by the Contracting Authority.

7. We, as well as members of our joint venture and our suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants or subconsultants authorise AFD to inspect accounts, records and other documents relating to the procurement process and performance of the contract and to have them audited by auditors appointed by AFD.

 

Name: _________________________  In the capacity of: ____________________________________

Duly empowered to sign in the name and on behalf of[1]:________________________________________

Signature:_____________________________________________________________________________

Dated: _______________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

Matrix template for evaluating Qualification Criteria

 

The table below may be used to evaluating the Qualification Criteria of the Applicants. One table must be completed for each Applicant. For each experience submitted by the Applicant, check the boxes of the criteria, which are met by the experience.

Name of the Applicant: ________________________________________________________________________________

 

	Nature of services[2]	Contract size	Technical area	Experience in PRC	Experience with donors-funded projects	[Etc.]
[Experience A][3]
[Experience B]
[Experience C]
[Etc.]
Total[4]

 

The selection of Applicants to be shortlisted shall follow the rules as defined herebelow:

• The Applicant must have at least one experience in each criterion; otherwise the application will be disqualifed.
• The ranking of Applicants is based on the greatest number of criterion fulfilled (boxes checked).
• For a Joint Venture, the experiences of all members will be added together for a combined total.