Project for the Industrial risks Management and Prevention in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region Financed by AFD
Selection
of Consultants
Request
for Expressions of Interest
Lot
1A - Technical
assistance and capacity building
Bid
No.:
0702-2050CITC1076
The
Client:Guangxi
Fire Rescue Department
The
Client’s
Agent: CMC
International Tendering Co., Ltd.
June
2020
CONSULTING
SERVICES
Expressions
of Interest
Guangxi
Fire Rescue
Department
of PR. China has
received a financing from Agence Française de Développement
("AFD"),
and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the
Project for the Industrial risks management and prevention in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region Financed by AFD.
The
Services of the consultant shall consist of Technical
assistance and capacity building.
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 call for expressions of interests 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.
The
budget for the Services is estimated at 2 600 000
€. The
Services run through the entire project implementation period, i.e.
roughly from 2020 to 2023
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 in a national training center, 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
Guangxi
Fire Rescue Department
hereby
invites Applicants to show their interest in delivering the Services
described above.
This
Request for Expressions of Interest is open to consulting
firms.
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
Applicant shall submit only one application, either in its own name
or as a member of a Joint Venture (JV). If an Applicant (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.
If
the Applicant is a JV, the expression of interest shall include:
or
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.
Interested
Applicants must provide information evidencing that they are
qualified and experienced to perform those Services. For that
purpose, documented evidence of recent and similar services shall be
submitted.
Determination
of the similarity of the experiences will be based on:
The contracts
size;
The
nature of the Services :
technical
assistance and capacity building
The
technical area and expertise : risk management or industrial risk
management or CBRN
Experience
in the Client’s country (PRC)
Experience
with donors-funded projects.
Partnering
with a local structure / with local expertise is encouraged for the
Services
Among
the submitted applications, Guangxi
Fire Rescue Department and
its Agent,
CMC International Tendering Co., Ltd. will
shortlist a maximum of six (6) Applicants, to whom the Request for
Proposals to carry out the Services shall be sent.
Expressions
of interest must be delivered to the address below from
9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.before
5:00
pm (Beijing Time) of July 15,
2020:
By
email: wangyiguan@citc.genertec.com.cn
/yangyuhoong@citc.genertec.com.cn
OR
by writing letter: Mr.
Wang
Yiguan/Ms. Yang Yuhong,
Rm 1106,
Genertec Plaza, No.
90
Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Beijing,
China
The
Client:
Guangxi
Fire Rescue Department
Address:
No.
119 Liangqing Dadao, Nanning City, Guangxi Contact:
LIU
Shuisheng
Contact:
Mr. Su
Jie
Tel:
86-18275738600
Email：417563860@qq.com
The
Client’s
Agent:
CMC
International Tendering Co., Ltd.
Add:
Rm 1106,
Genertec Plaza, No.
90
Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Beijing,
China
Contact:
Mr. Wang
Yiguan/Ms. Yang Yuhong
Tel:
86-10- 63348675
/8443
Fax:
86-10-63348445
Email：wangyiguan@citc.genertec.com.cn/yangyuhong@citc.genertec.com.cn
Interested
Applicants may obtain further information at the address below during
office hours:
9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Guangxi
Fire Rescue Department
Address:
No.
119 Liangqing Dadao, Nanning City, Guangxi Contact:
LIU
Shuisheng
Contact:
Mr. Liu
Shuisheng
Tel:
86 -13707873816
Email：417563860@qq.com
CMC
International Tendering Co., Ltd.
Add:
Rm 1106,
Genertec Plaza, No.
90
Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Beijing,
China
Contact:
Mr. Wang
Yiguan/Ms. Yang Yuhong
Tel:
86-10- 63348675
/8443
Fax:
86-10-63348445
Email：wangyiguan@citc.genertec.com.cn/yangyuhong@citc.genertec.com.cn
Appendix
to The Request for Expressions of Interest (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")
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.
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:
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);
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);
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.
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:
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Signature:
Dated:
Matrix
template for evaluating Expressions of Interest
The
table below may be used to establish the shortlist of 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.
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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.