| Overview : REVISED EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR PREQUALIFICATION REFERENCE: UNDP-TUR-EOI-PROJ(DEM_QA/QC)-2015/02 The UNDP Turkey invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Prequalification from experienced companies for provision of Certification, Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) services for mine clearance of border minefields on the Eastern border of Turkey under the Project for “Socioeconomic Development through Demining in Eastern Borders of Turkey”, which covers the clearance of 223 known minefields that have records, 2 unrecorded and 3 suspected ‘dummy’ minefields on the Armenian, Azerbaijan & Iranian borders with Turkey in the provinces of Ardahan, Kars, Iğdır, Ağrı &Van. Scope of the Project: The overall objective of the Project is to contribute to the social and economic development through demining and more secure borders in Eastern Turkey. Value based, mine action and humanitarian demining is undertaken in reference to the rational for the protection of civilian lives and livelihoods and in support and safety of development activities. To this end, normative frameworks that underpin mine action such as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), to which Turkey is a State Party, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) are in conformity with international humanitarian and human rights law and constitutes the framework for UNDP’s engagement in mine action and outlines standard requirements for activities under its management and financial accountability. Scope of services: The Certification and Quality Control service provider will be responsible for providing services to cover all the three tendered clearance lots as outlined below. The three clearance lots comprise of the following: Lot 1. North 4,473,117m2 / 54 minefields / 57,067 known mines. Geographic area: Ardahan, Kars & a portion of Igdir. Lot 2. Centre 4,107,150m2 / 88 minefields +1/ 76,094 known mines. Geographic area: Igdir & a portion of Agri. Lot 3. South 3.089.640m²/ 81 minefields +1 /56.862 known mines. Geographic area: Portion of Agri & Van down to Saray. The project will include 223 known minefields that have records, 2 unrecorded and 3 suspected ‘dummy’ minefields. The contractor/s will be expected to clear all mines in the 225 known mined areas and carry out a verification of the dummy minefields. The Certification and Quality Control service provider will be responsible for field accreditation, quality assurance, quality control and certification process of contractors and cleared land. The Certification, QA/QC service provider will report directly to the UNDP on all work undertaken. The supplier irrespective of its organizational structure (i.e. whether it is single entity, JV or Consortium can only apply for either the EoI for clearance or the EoI for Certification, QA/QC but not both. This is to prevent any conflict of interest in the work being undertaken. In case the same supplier applies to both EoIs, it will be disqualified from both selection processes. Prequalification Application Process - Interested Companies must fill in the relevant parts of UNDP Prequalification Application and submit relevant documentation/information as to demonstrate that they are qualified to perform the QA/QC services for land mine clearance in the lots stated above.
- Companies interested in submission of the Prequalification Application Document and the required information will confirm it in writing to UNDP via fax (+ 90 312 496 14 63) or via e-mail (mineaction@undp.org) of their “expression of interest for submission of EOI for Prequalification”
Qualifications: - The Prequalification is mainly based on; organizational capacity and experience in QA/QC services provided for international mine action projects; financial status (i.e. annual turnover). For further details please refer to Prequalification Application Form.
- Applicants must meet all of the pass/fail based qualifying criteria in order to be qualified for proceeding with the Pre-Qualification Application in Annex III. The applicants who meet all pass/fail based qualifying criteria shall be identified as “pre-qualified” and requested to submit a proposal for the next step of procurement process, which is Request for Proposal (RFP).
- The deadline for submission of proposals for prequalified applicants to submit their proposals will be specified in the ‘Notification of Pre-Qualification’.
- The submission for this EOI for Prequalification does not entail any commitment on the part of UNDP Turkey, either financial or otherwise. UNDP Turkey reserves the right to accept or reject any or all EOI for Prequalification without incurring any obligation to inform the affected applicant/s of the grounds.
- UNDP-Turkey is not obliged to invite to participate in the subsequent Request for Proposal process any particular company who had submitted the Prequalification application.
- Although the Certification and Quality Control service provider will be responsible for providing services to cover all the three tendered clearance lots, depending on the requirements of the Project and in case of other emerging needs and priorities, UNDP Turkey reserves the right to prequalify the applicants for single or multiple Lots . In such case, UNDP Turkey is not obliged to make any justification to applicants for its pre-qualification selection
Deadline for Submission of EoI/P: 2 May 2015, 18:00 hrs
Submissions:
To: United Nations Development Programme
Birlik Mah. 415. Cad. No: 11, 06610, Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey
Ref: UNDP-TUR-EOI-PROJ(DEM_QA/QC)-2015/02
Subject: Provision of Demining Certification and Quality Assurance/
Quality Control services of border minefields on the Eastern border of Turkey
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