II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
75211200
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM95
Main site or place of performance:
Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, and up to 20 sub-Saharan African countries.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
DFID sought a Supplier to deliver a 20 month contract for Technical Assistance (TA) of up to 18 000 000 GBP with an Emergency Response Mechanism Fund (ERM) of up to 20 000 000 GBP for the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa (TDDAP) Programme.
The timeframe was extended to include the extension option of 24 months resulting in a 44 month contract for up to 18 000 000 GBP TA and 20 000 000 GBP ERM Fund.
Suppliers were required to provide costs for a 44 month Contract of up to 18 000 000 GBP TA and up to £20 ERM Funds as approval for the extended timeframe was secured before tender submission and contract award.
There is also provision to increase the financial limit by a further 19 000 000 GBP (9 000 000 GBP TA and 10 000 000 GBP ERM) dependant on need, securing the required approvals and performance of the supplier.
The 20 000 000 GBP — 30 000 000 GBP ERM Funding will be approved from the Africa crisis/DFID contingency reserve as required and is included in the contract financial limit, however, depending on the need, funding maybe channelled via the MOU or the TA Supplier contract. The estimated value includes all applicable taxes, and tenderers included all applicable taxes in their tenders. The Emergency Response Mechanism Fund was included as part of the TA OJEU process to ensure cohesion of the programme. This will only be triggered if a public health emergency requires additional resources (especially at the community level) to curtail the threat. The supplier will deliver management and coordination of the Emergency Response Mechanism, including identifying, sourcing, undertaking due diligence, contracting and managing local and regional suppliers that will engage at a community and sub-national level.
Please note that the estimated value of 57 000 000 GBP, inclusive of all extension options, represents a maximum, and DFID sought competitive tenders based on the full Terms of Reference (Volume 3 of the ITT Pack) to come in at a lower level.
Delivery will be in 6 focus countries – Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, and Uganda and a further 3 focus countries of Niger, Chad and Mali proposed as part of the tender process from Rwanda, CAR, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. Burundi was removed from the tender process as part of the Corrigendum 2018/S 086-193963.
Overall TDDAP Outputs 2-5 will be delivered by the supplier with WHO AFRO delivering Component 1 and contributing to a joint logical framework.
A payment by results model will be used for effective implementation of the TDDAP programme which links to achievement of agreed KPI’s and milestones. Key performance indicators link delivery of targets to an agreed payment schedule.
A DFID Standard Service Contract was awarded. A rapid response mechanism was included to implement the ERM Fund.
Break points and scale up/down were provided for in ToR and contract clauses to allow flexibility to respond to emerging needs (including the rapid response Emergency Response Mechanism).
To ensure cohesion between the TA and Emergency Response Mechanism, maximise VfM through economies of scale and reduced management costs and ensure that the higher need/higher risk countries are not left behind, the tender was not split into lots.
Overall results under the combined efforts of the programme, as detailed in the log-frame, will be:
— Impact
Reduced impact of communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics on African populations.
This not only includes results in terms of lives saved, and limiting transmission to other countries, but also covers economic impacts.
— Outcome
African health systems and institutions strengthened to prevent outbreaks and epidemics of deadly communicable diseases.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical — quality of team
/ Weighting: 15
Quality criterion: Technical — methodology and approach
/ Weighting: 33
Quality criterion: Technical — innovation
/ Weighting: 7
Quality criterion: Technical — emergency response mechanism
/ Weighting: 5
Cost criterion: Commercial
/ Weighting: 40
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
DFID sought a supplier to deliver a 20 month contract for Technical Assistance (TA) of up to 18 000 000 GBP with an Emergency Response Mechanism Fund (ERM) of up to 20 000 000 GBP until March 2020 for the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa (TDDAP) Programme.
The option to extend the timeframe resulting in a 44 month contract for up to 18 000 000 GBP TA and 20 000 000 GBP ERM Fund subject to securing approval was included.
Suppliers were required to provide costs for a 44 month Contract of up to 18 000 000 GBP TA and up to £20 ERM Funds as approval for the extended timeframe was secured before tender submission and contract award.
There is also provision to increase the financial limit by a further 19 000 000 GBP (9 000 000 GBP TA and 10 000 000 GBP ERM) dependant on need, securing the required approvals and performance of the supplier.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No