INVITATION TO TENDER
Consultancy services for "Forest Resource Assessment in Nepal"
1. DESCRIPTION OF PROCUREMENT
The general objective of the intervention is to strengthen forestry sector and its administration in order for it to play its corresponding role in Nepalese economy and society. The purpose of the project is to improve the provision of adequate forestry data and its processing for national forest policy development and for national forestry sector decision making.
Technical Assistance is directed to four components: Implementation of national forest resource assessment (FRA), Implementation of national forest cover mapping, Development of forest information system research and development, and Project management. For more detailed information see project document (Annex A). For the purpose, a team of five experts are subject to this tender.
2. TYPE OF CONTRACT
An open national procedure shall be used as the form of procurement.
Act on Public Procurement (348/2007 Finlex) shall be complied with in the procurement.
3. DIVISION INTO LOTS
Variants and partial proposals shall not be accepted. In case of a joint tender, one tenderer shall be nominated as the Leading partner with whom the agreement shall be signed.
4. THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for Americas and Asia, Unit for Asia and Oceania.
5. PROCUREMENT CONTACT PERSON
Contact person in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland is Katja Hirvonen (e-mail: [email protected], copied to [email protected]). The contact person in the embassy of Finland in Kathmandu is Kari Leppänen (e-mail: [email protected]). The contact person in Nepal is Mr. Sahas Man Shrestha, Director General, Department of Forest research and Survey, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +977-1-4233510, fax + 977-1-4220159. Meetings should be agreed beforehand and well in advance.
If considered necessary, the tenderer's representatives may visit the partner country, and contact relevant organisations in the country at the tenderer's own expense. The purpose of the possible visit should be only technical fact-finding. Any marketing effort may lead to a disqualification of the tender.
6. QUERIES
All communication and contacts are to be submitted through the contact persons mentioned in the paragraph 5. Only communication and contacts through these persons shall be considered official and valid for the competition. All other contacts are considered invalid and no petition related to any of this kind of contact can be considered.
Tenderer requiring clarification of the Tender Documents shall submit queries to the Ministry in writing to the contact persons (copied to [email protected]). The Ministry shall respond in writing. These replies, including the query shall be issued
o to all Tenderers who have identified themselves to the Ministry by e-mail to [email protected]
Queries received later than 14.08.2025 will not be answered. Only written questions will be answered.
Possible amendments to the Tender Documents issued during the tendering period will be in writing, each provided with a serial number for reference purposes. The receipt of an Amendment shall be acknowledged by the Tenderer immediately. Amendments will become part of the Tender Documents.
7. SUBMITTING THE TENDER
The tender must be received by the Ministry no later than at 12.00 HRS (GMT+2), 11.9.2009. A two envelope system is used. The tender shall consist of two parts, the Technical Tender and the Price Tender, to be submitted separately and simultaneously in sealed envelopes. The envelopes shall be marked accordingly.
The Tender dossier shall be submitted in one signed original, four paper copies and a soft copy on a CD. If there are any discrepancies between the written tender and the tender delivered by CD disk, the written tender will be regarded as the principal tender. Tenders submitted after the closing date will not be taken into account. The language of the tender is English. The price tender is to be submitted in a separate closed envelope.
Binding tenders shall be delivered to the following address:
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Unit for Asia and Oceania
Katja Hirvonen
" Forest Resource Assessment in Nepal "
P.O.Box 513
00023 Government, Finland
Street address:
Katajanokanlaituri 3, Helsinki
More information: http://www.hankintailmoitukset.fi/fi/notice/view/2009-022141/
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| Invitation+to+tender+FRA+in+Nepal.pdf | 255.29 KB |
| ANNEX+A+Project+document+FRA.pdf | 425.24 KB |
| ANNEX+D+Consultancy+contract+model.doc | 151.5 KB |