Call for tender – Expertise France Retour vers les opportunités

1. Context

Expertise France is the French public international cooperation agency. It designs and implements projects which aim to contribute to the balanced development of partner countries, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda and the priorities of France’s external action. Expertise France’s mission is to meet the demand of partner countries seeking to enhance the quality of their public policies in order to address the environmental, social, economic and security challenges they are facing. The agency achieves this goal by implementing projects in the main areas of public action:

• Democratic, economic and financial governance;
• Stability, international security and peace Stability, international security and peace
• Sustainable development, climate and agriculture
• Health and human development

Written and simultaneous translation in Tunisia and Libya.

1. Services to be provided

The services required by Expertise France is to “Written and simultaneous translation in Tunisia and Libya” and are fully described in the Terms of Reference (ref doc).

• Procedure’s schedule

*Provisional date

1. Procurement procedure

The present procurement procedure is subject to the French Code of public procurement in its latest version in force as enacted by Order No. 2018-1074 issued on 26 November 2018 and its Implementation Decree No. 2018-1075 issued on 3 December 2018.

Expertise France proceeds with the “adapted procedure” by virtue of applying articles L. 2123-1 and R. 2123-1 au R. 2123-7 of the above mentioned Code.

1. Content of the tender dossier

The tender dossier is composed by the following documents :

• Draft of contract
• The current request for proposal (DAJ_M001)
• Technical specifications / terms of reference (version 01 20 May 2021)
• Expression of interest form including the declaration of honour on exclusion criteria and absence of conflict of interest template (DAJ_F043)
• tendering instructions

Candidatures material, offers, all correspondence and documents related to the tender exchanged by the tenderer and Expertise France must be written in English.

Supporting documents furnished by the tenderer may be in another language, provided a translation into the language of the procedure is attached. For the purposes of interpreting the tender, the language of the procedure has precedence.

Failure to fulfill the requirements described in the current paragraph will constitute a formal error and may result in a rejection of the tender.

• Tender material

The Candidatures material must include the following documents:

• A completed Legal identity form ;
• A completed expression of interest form including the declaration of honour on exclusion criteria and absence of conflict of interest ;
• The duly completed, dated and signed Contract agreement ;
• The latter comprise the financial offer.

The Financial offer must be presented as a contractual fixed lump sum in euro and include all type of expenditures (fees, travel, accommodation…) for all tasks mentioned in the Terms of Reference
Tenderers are reminded that the estimated budget available for this contract should not be exceeded.

• Financial breakdown (Appendix I).
• A technical offer comprising:
  1. Organization, staffing and practical arrangements.
  2. CV of the team leader
  3. References (Portfolio)

In case of subcontracting, a statement guaranteeing the eligibility of the subcontractor is required. The statement must contain information on the financial, economic, technical and professional capacities of the envisaged subcontractor.

• Costs for preparing tenders

No costs incurred by the tenderer in preparing and submitting the tender are reimbursable. All such costs must be borne by the tenderer.