Contracts

I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s):

Official name: Department for International Development (DFID) India

Postal address: B28 Tara Crescent, Qutab Institutional Area

Town: New Delhi

Telephone: 00 91 11 5279 3364

E-mail: s-lal@dfid.gov.uk

Contact point(s):

For the attention of: Mr Shankar Lal

Postal code: IN-110016

Country: India

Fax: 00 91 11 2651 9296

General address of the contracting authority (URL): http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

Address of the buyer profile (URL):

I.1.1) Further information can be obtained at:

I.1.2) Specifications and additional documents (including documents for a Dynamic Purchasing System) can be obtained at:

I.1.3) Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

I.2.1) Type of contracting authority:

If 'other' please specify: 

I.2.2) Main activity or activities:

If 'other' please specify: 

I.2.2) The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities?:

II.1) Description:

II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

UK-India: Second National Aids Control Programme: To Conduct Social Marketing and Behaviour Change Communications to Promote Condom Use in Tamil Nadu

II.1.2) Service Category:

11.

II.1.2.1) Main place of performance:

India

NUTS code:

II.1.3.1.) The notice involves:

A public contract.

II.1.4) Information on framework agreement (if appropriate)

Number, or if applicable, maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged:

II.1.4.1) Duration of the framework agreement (if appropriate):

Period in year(s):

Or month(s):

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years:

II.1.4.2) Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement (give figures only):

Estimated value excluding VAT:

Or range: between:

and:

Currency:

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded (if possible):

II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

The Second National AIDS Control Programme (NACP II), managed by Government of India (GoI) National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), began in 1999 and has been extended to March 2007. NACP II has five components:

• interventions for high-risk communities
• prevention amongst the general population
• low cost care and support
• strengthening capacity, and
• inter-sectoral collaboration.

The goal of DFID support to NACP II is to reduce the spread of HIV infection and its impact on poverty in India. More details on the programme may be viewed at the website,http://www.naco.nic.in

DFID wishes to contract a consultant to provide an integrated mass media campaign designed to promote condom usage in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Evidence based mass media campaigns have proven to be an effective methodology of providing sustained behaviour change, particularly if reinforced with intensive community based approaches.

Condom usage is an effective method of preventing HIV transmission particularly amongst high risk groups. The expected Outputs from this assignment are:

• a) An integrated mass media campaign that emphasises the benefits of condom usage, and
• b) Community based IPC to reinforce the key mass media messages.

It will be important for the consultant to address key concepts such as self-risk perception and provide key information to promote sustained behaviour change amongst the target groups. The key target group will be clients of sex workers working in the state of Tamil Nadu. The consultant should make sure that the mass media and grassroots campaigns link up with current condom promotion activities throughout the state and should compliment and enhance all such efforts.

• Health services.
• Financial management consultancy services.
• Foreign economic-aid-related services.

II.1.6) Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV):

Main Object: 85100000-0.
Additional Object: 75211200-0.
Additional Object: 74141200-1. 

II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)?:

Yes

II.1.8) Division into lots?:

No

If yes, tenders should be submitted for:

Lot no.:

II.1.9) Variants will be accepted:

Yes

II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract:

II.2.1) Total quantity or scope (including all lots and options, if applicable):

If known, estimated value excluding VAT (give figure only):

Or range: between:

and:

Currency:

II.2.2) Options (if applicable):

If yes, description of these options:

If known, provisional timetable for recourse to these options: 

Period in month(s):

Or day(s):

Number of possible renewals (if any):

Or range: between:

and:

If known, in the case of renewable contracts, estimated time-frame for subsequent contracts:

In month(s):

and/or days (from the award of the contract):

II.3) Duration of the contract or time period for completion:

Either, Period in months: 12

and/or days:

Or, Starting:

and/or ending:

III.1) Conditions relating to the contract:

III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required (if applicable):

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

Prices are not required at Expression of Interest stage, however when required prices must be quoted in Indian Rupees (GBP for non-Indian bidders) and all payments under the contract will be made in Indian Rupees (GBP for non-Indian bidders). Payments will be cleared from DFID's India Office. DFID reserves the right to annul the process and not to award the contract.

III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded (if applicable):

Joint and several liability

III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which performance of the contract is subject (if applicable):

If yes, description of particular conditions:

III.2) Conditions for participation:

III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:

Any supplier may be disqualified who:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met (if applicable):

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required (if applicable):

III.2.3) Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met (if applicable):

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required (if applicable):

III.2.4) Reserved contracts (if applicable):

III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts:

III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

No

If yes, reference of the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:

III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

Yes

IV.1) Type of procedure:

Restricted procedure

IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators that will be invited to tender or to participate (when applicable):

Envisaged number of operators:

Or envisaged minimum number: 5

and, if appropriate, maximum number: 8

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

IV.2) Award criteria:

IV.2.1) Award criteria:

B) The most economically advantageous tender in terms of: B2) the criteria as stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.

IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used:

No

If yes, additional information about electronic auction (if appropriate):

IV.3) Administrative information:

IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting entity (if applicable):

CNTR/NPT/NACP/CON/2005/1780

IV.3.2) Previous publication concerning the same contract:

No

If yes:

IV.3.2.1) Notice number in OJ:

Of:

IV.3.2.2) Other previous publications:

Notice number in OJ:

Of:

IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents (except for a DPS):

Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents:

Time:

Payable documents:

If yes, price (give figures only):

Currency:

Terms and method of payment:

IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

Date: 23/01/2006

Time: 15:00

IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:

30/01/2006

IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:

English

Other - third country:

IV.3.7) Conditions for opening tenders:

IV.3.7.1) Date, time and place:

Date: 27/03/2006

Time: 16:00

Place (if applicable): DFID India

IV.3.8.2) Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders (if applicable):

No

If yes, authorised persons:

V.1) This is a recurrent procurement (if applicable):

If estimated timing for further notices to be published:

V.2) Contract(s) related to a project and/or programme financed by EU funds:

No

If yes, reference to project(s) and/or programme(s):

V.3) Additional information (if applicable):

Expressions of Interest may be submitted electronically to the e-mail address at section 1 and must include a duly completedApplication Form (55 kb). The expression of interest must also include a Capability Statement of no more than four A4 pages showing evidence of relevant skills and experience (shown on the Application Form).

Abridged CVs of key personnel of no more than two pages in length should also be included. These CVs can be submitted in addition to the four pages Capability Statement. Expressions of interest should only be sent to the address at section 1, and prospective bidders should not approach any other DFID employee directly.

Following assessment of expression of interest, DFID will invite short listed applicants to submit full technical and commercial proposals. The contract duration is 12 months. Subject to proven need and satisfactory performance a possible extension of up to 12 months may be considered. DFID reserves the right to annul the tendering process and not award a contract.

From 1 April 2001 all UK development assistance has been fully untied which allows suppliers from anywhere in the world to bid for DFID contracts. DFID will not reply to any Expressions of Interest unless short-listed for Invitation to Tender. Suppliers should check the DFID website for details of short-listed suppliers.

V.4) Procedures for appeal:

V.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures:

Body responsible for mediation procedures (if applicable):

V.4.2) Lodging of appeals (please fill heading V.4.2 or if need be, heading V.4.3):

V.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:

V.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

12/12/2005