Professional Documents
Culture Documents
This section, read in conjunction with Section 1, Instructions to Consultants and Section 2, Bid Data
Sheet, contains all the factors, methods and criteria that the Public Body shall use to evaluate a bid
and determine whether a Consultant has the required qualifications. No other factors, methods or
criteria shall be used.
1. Professional, Technical, and Financial Qualification Criteria
1.1 Professional Qualifications and Capability of the Consultant (ITC Clause 14)
Minimum
Years of
(i) (ii) Po (iii)Minimum Qualification Remark
Item siti N Experienc
on e
1.2 Technical Qualifications, Competence, and Experience of the Consultant (ITC Clause 16)
(a). The Consultant must submit at least two Certificates of satisfactory execution of contracts provided by
contracting parties to the contracts successfully completed in the course of the past ten years with a bud-
get of above half of this contract price.
(a). The average annual calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in
progress or completed within the last five years must exceed 40% times the amount
of the Financial Proposal;
2.1 The Technical Proposals shall be examined to confirm that all documentary evidence
establishing the Consultants' qualifications requested in ITC Clause 18 have been
provided;
2.2 After confirming the Technical Proposals comprise all mandatory documentary
evidence establishing the Consultant's qualification the Public Body will rule on the
legal, technical, professional, and financial admissibility of each bid, classifying it as
compliant or non-compliant with qualification requirements set forth in the Request for
Proposals;
2.3 The Public Body will then analyze the Technical Proposals' conformity in relation to the
Terms of Reference, classifying them technically compliant or non-compliant.
2.4 The Public Body shall continue evaluation of Technical Proposals that have been
determined to be substantially responsive with rectification of nonconformities and
omissions in Proposals, if any.
2.5 Provided all mandatory legal, professional, technical, and financial requirements have
been met Technical Proposals shall be evaluated and scored in accordance with ITC Clause
37 by taking into account the following technical evaluation criteria in order of their
importance and their proportional weight in the total system of evaluation, as specified below:
CRITERIA
Consultant’s
Joint Venture, Consortium or
FACTOR Association Documentatio
Requirement Single
All At Least n Required
Entity Each
Partners One
Partner
Combined Partner
1. Legal Qualification of the Consultant
Must meet
Must meet Must meet Bid Submission
1.1. Nationality Nationality requiremen n/a
requirement requirement Sheet
t
Must meet
1.2. Conflict of Must meet Must meet Bid Submission
No conflict of interest as described requiremen n/a
Interest requirement requirement Sheet
t
CRITERIA
Consultant’s
Joint Venture, Consortium or
FACTOR Association Documentatio
Requirement Single
All At Least n Required
Entity Each
Partners One
Partner
Combined Partner
1.3. Registration in Having been registered in the Public Must meet
Must meet Must meet Bid Submission
the FPPA's Procurement and Property requiremen n/a
requirement requirement Sheet
Suppliers List Administration Agency's Suppliers List t
Not having been debarred by decision
1.4. Debarred by of the Public Procurement Agency Must meet
Must meet Must meet Bid Submission
decision of the from participating in public requiremen n/a
requirement requirement Sheet
FPPA procurements for breach of its t
obligation under previous contracts
1.5. Valid trade
Having been submitted valid trade
license or
license or business organization Must meet Bid Submission
business Must meet Must meet
registration certificate issued by the requiremen n/a Sheet with
organization requirement requirement
country of establishment must be t attachments
registration
renewed for 2011EC.
certificate
Having been submitted VAT
1.6. VAT Must meet Bid Submission
registration certificate issued by the tax Must meet Must meet
registration requiremen n/a Sheet with
authority (in case of contract value of requirement requirement
certificate t attachments
Birr 100,000.00 and above)
1.7. Valid tax Having been submitted valid tax Must meet Bid Submission
Must meet Must meet
clearance clearance certificate issued by the tax requiremen n/a Sheet with
requirement requirement
certificate authority (Domestic Bidders Only) t attachments
Bidder
Must meet
1.8. Government Must meet Must meet Certification of
Compliance with conditions of ITC requiremen n/a
Owned Entity requirement requirement Compliance with
t
attachments
1.9. Renewed Renewed Reg.
Registration Certificate and
Certificate Bidder
Given from Ministry of Urban Must meet
from OUDB Must meet Must meet Certification of
Development Housing and requiremen n/a
or certificate requirement requirement Compliance with
Construction renewed for 2011EC. t
of compliance attachments
from
MOC&UD.
The Average annual turnover calculated
Bidder
1.10. Average as total certified payments received for Must meet
Must meet Certification of
Annul turn contracts in progress or completed requiremen >50% >70%
requirement Compliance with
over within the last 3 years (5,000,000.00) t
attachments
Eth Birr
Bidders certificate
of Compliance
with attachment.
Copy of External
Submission of audited balance sheets auditor renewed
and other financial statements for the legal certification
Must meet
1.11. Financial last 5 years to demonstrate the current Must meet /valid trade
requiremen >50% >70%
performance soundness of the Bidder's financial requirement license/ with
t
position and its prospective long term audited summary
profitability. report and detail
audited
documents
(Balance sheet
, profit & loss
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Section 3: Evaluation and Qualification Criteria
CRITERIA
Consultant’s
Joint Venture, Consortium or
FACTOR Association Documentatio
Requirement Single
All At Least n Required
Entity Each
Partners One
Partner
Combined Partner
statement ) and
receipt of profit
taxes
2.6
(a). The technical evaluation criteria and their weighting points that indicate their level
of importance are determined, as follows:
SCORING DESCRIPTION
2.7 Individual weighted scores for all technical evaluation criteria shall be weighted
according to the set proportional weighting factors. The weighted result shall be
calculated by multiplying the score by the proportional weighting point of the individual
criterion.
2.8 Consultants getting score less than 70% in the evaluation shall be rejected and the
envelopes containing the Financial Proposals of those Consultants scoring 70% and
above shall be opened.
According to the methodology defined in the Public Procurement Proclamation and Directive the
Public Body shall select the successful Consultant by applying the following method:
(a). In the financial evaluation, the highest point shall be given to the lowest priced Financial Proposal,
and conversely, the lowest point shall be given to the highest priced Financial Proposal; among tech-
nically qualified Proposals. The points given to other Consultants shall be determined depending on
their price offers.
(b). From the total merit points to be given for proposals submitted by Consultants the share of Technical
Proposal shall be 80% and the remaining 20% shall be the share of Financial Proposal.
(c). The Public Body shall then add the technical score to the Financial Proposal Price score to determine
the aggregated (total) Bid Proposal score and final ranking of Proposals.
(d). The Public Body shall award the contract to the Proposal that has the highest point in the total sum
of results of the technical and financial evaluation.
(e). Where two Consultants get equal merit points in the evaluation, preference shall be given to local
Consultants.
(f). The Public Body may require Consultants scoring equal merit points in the evaluation to submit fur -
ther Proposals on certain aspects of the Request of Proposals with a view to identifying the successful
Consultant.
(g). Where by reason of the Consultants scoring equal merit points not submitting final proposals they
are invited to submit, or by reason of the evaluation result of the final proposals submitted by the
Consultants being still equal the successful Consultant cannot be singled out, the successful Consul-
tant shall be determined by casting lot in the presence, as far as possible, of the Consultants con -
cerned
4. Domestic Preference
4.1 If the ITC Clause 34 so specifies, the Public Body will grant a margin of preference to
local consultancy companies for the purpose of bid comparison, in accordance with the
procedures outlined in subsequent paragraphs.
(a). Responsive Financial Proposals shall be classified into the following groups:
4.2 For the purpose of further evaluation and comparison of Financial Proposals only, an
amount equal to 7.5% percent of the evaluated Financial Proposals' prices determined
in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 34.3 shall be added to all Financial Proposals
classified in Group B.
Since in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 39.6 the Public Body be allowed to award one or multiple lots to
more than one Consultant, the following methodology shall be used for award of multiple contracts:
(a). evaluate only lots or contracts that include at least the percentages of items per lot and quantity per
item as specified in ITC 19.7;
(i) the lowest-evaluated Proposal for each lot that meets the requirement of evalua-
tion criteria;
(ii) the price reduction per lot and the methodology for their application as offered
by the Consultant in its Financial Proposal; and
(iii) the contract-award sequence that provides the optimum economic combination,
taking into account any limitations due to constraints in supply or execution ca-
pacity.
The following qualification criteria will be applied to Consultants. In the case of bids submitted by
a consortium, these qualification criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1.1 Professional Qualifications and Capability of the Consultant (ITC Clause 14)
1.2 Technical Qualifications, Competence, and Experience of the Consultant (ITC Clause 16)
(a) The Consultant has successfully completed at least 3 contracts with a budget of at least that of this
contract in the past six years;
(a)The average annual calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress or completed
within the last Four years must exceed the amount of the Financial Proposal
2.1 The Technical Proposals shall be examined to confirm that all documentary evidence
establishing the Consultants' qualifications requested in ITC Clause 18 have been
provided;
2.2 After confirming the Technical Proposals comprise all mandatory documentary
evidence establishing the Consultant's qualification the Public Body will rule on the
legal, technical, professional, and financial admissibility of each bid, classifying it as
compliant or non-compliant with qualification requirements set forth in the Request for
Proposals;
2.3 The Public Body will then analyze the Technical Proposals' conformity in relation to the
Terms of Reference, classifying them technically compliant or non-compliant.
2.4 The Public Body shall continue evaluation of Technical Proposals that have been
determined to be substantially responsive with rectification of nonconformities and
omissions in Proposals, if any.
2.5 Provided all mandatory legal, professional, technical, and financial requirements have
been met Technical Proposals shall be evaluated and scored in accordance with ITC
Clause 37 by taking into account the following technical evaluation criteria in order of
their importance and their proportional weight in the total system of evaluation, as
specified below:
(a) The technical evaluation criteria and their weighting points that indicate their level of importance
are determined, as follows:
(b) The Public Body will evaluate any technical evaluation criterion using the follow-
ing scoring scale:
SCORING DESCRIPTION
Unsatisfactor Does not satisfy the requirements of the criteria in any manner.
0
y
2.6 Individual weighted scores for all technical evaluation criteria shall be weighted
according to the set proportional weighting factors. The weighted result shall be
calculated by multiplying the score by the proportional weighting point of the individual
criterion.
2.7 Consultants getting score less than 70% in the evaluation shall be rejected and the
envelopes containing the Financial Proposals of those Consultants scoring 70% and
above shall be opened.
According to the methodology defined in the Public Procurement Proclamation and Directive the
Public Body shall select the successful Consultant by applying the following method:
(a) In the financial evaluation, the highest point shall be given to the lowest priced Financial Proposal,
and conversely, the lowest point shall be given to the highest priced Financial Proposal; among
technically qualified Proposals. The points given to other Consultants shall be determined depend-
ing on their price offers.
(b) From the total merit points to be given for proposals submitted by Consultants the share of Techni -
cal Proposal shall be 80% and the remaining 20% shall be the share of Financial Proposal.
(c) The Public Body shall then add the technical score to the Financial Proposal Price score to deter-
mine the aggregated (total) Bid Proposal score and final ranking of Proposals.
(d) The Public Body shall award the contract to the Proposal that has the highest point in the total sum
of results of the technical and financial evaluation.
(e) Where two Consultants get equal merit points in the evaluation, preference shall be given to local
Consultants.
(f) The Public Body may require Consultants scoring equal merit points in the evaluation to submit
further Proposals on certain aspects of the Request of Proposals with a view to identifying the suc-
cessful Consultant.
(g) Where by reason of the Consultants scoring equal merit points not submitting final proposals they
are invited to submit, or by reason of the evaluation result of the final proposals submitted by the
Consultants being still equal the successful Consultant cannot be singled out, the successful Consul-
tant shall be determined by casting lot in the presence, as far as possible, of the Consultants con -
cerned
4. Domestic Preference
4.1 If the ITC Clause 34 so specifies, the Public Body will grant a margin of preference to
local consultancy companies for the purpose of bid comparison, in accordance with the
procedures outlined in subsequent paragraphs.
(a) Responsive Financial Proposals shall be classified into the following groups:
4.2 For the purpose of further evaluation and comparison of Financial Proposals only, an
amount equal to 7.5% percent of the evaluated Financial Proposals' prices determined
in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 34.3 shall be added to all Financial Proposals
classified in Group B.
Since in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 39.6 the Public Body be allowed to award one or multiple lots to
more than one Consultant, the following methodology shall be used for award of multiple contracts:
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Section 3: Evaluation and Qualification Criteria
(a) evaluate only lots or contracts that include at least the percentages of items per lot and quantity per
item as specified in ITC 19.7;
(i) The lowest-evaluated Proposal for each lot that meets the requirement of
evaluation criteria;
(ii) The price reduction per lot and the methodology for their application as of-
fered by the Consultant in its Financial Proposal; and
(iii) the contract-award sequence that provides the optimum economic combina-
tion, taking into account any limitations due to constraints in supply or exe-
cution capacity
The following qualification criteria will be applied to Consultants. In the case of bids submitted by
a consortium, these qualification criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1.1 Professional Qualifications and Capability of the Consultant (ITC Clause 14)
1.2 Technical Qualifications, Competence, and Experience of the Consultant (ITC Clause 16)
(a) The Consultant must provide at least Three Certificates of satisfactory execution of contracts provided
by contracting parties to the contracts successfully completed in the course of the past six years with a
(a) The average annual calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in
progress or completed within the last five years must exceed 5,000,000.00 ETB
2.1 The Technical Proposals shall be examined to confirm that all documentary evidence
establishing the Consultants' qualifications requested in ITC Clause 18 have been
provided;
2.2 After confirming the Technical Proposals comprise all mandatory documentary
evidence establishing the Consultant's qualification the Public Body will rule on the
legal, technical, professional, and financial admissibility of each bid, classifying it as
compliant or non-compliant with qualification requirements set forth in the Request for
Proposals;
2.3 The Public Body will then analyse the Technical Proposals' conformity in relation to the
Terms of Reference, classifying them technically compliant or non-compliant.
2.4 The Public Body shall continue evaluation of Technical Proposals that have been
determined to be substantially responsive with rectification of nonconformities and
omissions in Proposals, if any.
2.5 Provided all mandatory legal, professional, technical, and financial requirements have
been met Technical Proposals shall be evaluated and scored in accordance with ITC
Clause 37 by taking into account the following technical evaluation criteria in order of
their importance and their proportional weight in the total system of evaluation, as
specified below:
(a) The technical evaluation criteria and their weighting points that indicate their level of importance
are determined, as follows: The following qualification criteria will be applied to Bidders:
Proportio Documentation
Priority Name of criteria nal points Required
in %
Consultants must demonstrate that it will have the personnel
for the key positions that meet the following requirements;
Renewed employment agreement must be attached for 2011
E.C from labor and social affairs bureau if not, all value for
individual personnel will not be considered.
(a)Coordinator Technical
CV (3% points) Renewed professional License Proposal Form
8
(2.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement with attachments,
(2.5% points) All attachments
(b) Professional Architect /Planner should be get
CV (3% points) Renewed professional License 8 Authorized
(2.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement bodies
(2.5% points) certification and
(c)Professional landscape Architect /Planner 8 copy of original
CV (3% points) Renewed professional License
2 (2.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement
(2.5% points)
(d) Professional electrical engineer 8
CV (3% points) Renewed professional License
(2.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement
(2.5% points)
(e) Professional sanitary/hydraulic engineer. 5
CV (2% points) Renewed professional License
(1.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement
(1.5% points)
(f) Graduate architect, civil engineer and surveyor 8
CV (3% points) Renewed professional License
(2.5% points) Renewed Employment agreement
(2.5% points)
(g) Cad expert 5
Total points for criterion (1): 50 %
Adequacy of the proposed methodology and
work plan
in responding to the Terms of Reference:
3 (a)Technical approach and methodology 5
(b)Work plan 10
(c)Organization and staffing 5
Total points for criterion (2): 20%
4. The consultant has successfully participated as prime Consultants’
Specif consultant, in contract within the last six years, three Certification of
ic projects with a value of at least 1,000,000.00 (one million) Compliance with
each and above , that have been successfully and attachments; The
experi substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed document
ence Works (in site work and land scape design). (agreements,
of the 3 design works 20 supplementary
Consu 2 design works 14
agreements, final
ltants payments, good will
1 design works performance letters,
releva etc. ) to be attached
nt to for this criterion
the 7 should also be
assign certified by the
ment appropriate Employer
also should disclose
Total points for criterion (3): the date, year within
which the work is
done, & the total
20% project cost, copies of
payment certificates
need to be explicitly
attached.
Suitability of the transfer of knowledge
(training) program:
(a)Relevance of training program 1
5
(b)Training approach and methodology 3
(c)Qualifications of experts and trainers 1
Total points for criterion (4): 5%
Participation by Ethiopians among proposed
6 5%
key staff
Σ Total Points for the Five Criteria (2+3+4+5+6) 100
(b) The Public Body will evaluate any technical evaluation criterion using the follow-
ing scoring scale:
SCORING DESCRIPTION
SCORING DESCRIPTION
2.6 Individual weighted scores for all technical evaluation criteria shall be weighted
according to the set proportional weighting factors. The weighted result shall be
calculated by multiplying the score by the proportional weighting point of the individual
criterion.
2.7 Consultants getting score less than 70% in the evaluation shall be rejected and the
envelopes containing the Financial Proposals of those Consultants scoring 70% and
above shall be opened.
According to the methodology defined in the Public Procurement Proclamation and Directive the
Public Body shall select the successful Consultant by applying the following method:
(a) In the financial evaluation, the highest point shall be given to the lowest priced Financial Proposal,
and conversely, the lowest point shall be given to the highest priced Financial Proposal; among
technically qualified Proposals. The points given to other Consultants shall be determined depend-
ing on their price offers.
(b) From the total merit points to be given for proposals submitted by Consultants the share of Techni -
cal Proposal shall be 80% and the remaining 20% shall be the share of Financial Proposal.
(c) The Public Body shall then add the technical score to the Financial Proposal Price score to deter-
mine the aggregated (total) Bid Proposal score and final ranking of Proposals.
(d) The Public Body shall award the contract to the Proposal that has the highest point in the total sum
of results of the technical and financial evaluation.
(e) Where two Consultants get equal merit points in the evaluation, preference shall be given to local
Consultants.
(f) The Public Body may require Consultants scoring equal merit points in the evaluation to submit
further Proposals on certain aspects of the Request of Proposals with a view to identifying the suc-
cessful Consultant.
(g) Where by reason of the Consultants scoring equal merit points not submitting final proposals they
are invited to submit, or by reason of the evaluation result of the final proposals submitted by the
Consultants being still equal the successful Consultant cannot be singled out, the successful Consul-
tant shall be determined by casting lot in the presence, as far as possible, of the Consultants con -
cerned.
4. Domestic Preference
4.1 If the ITC Clause 34 so specifies, the Public Body will grant a margin of preference to
local consultancy companies for the purpose of bid comparison, in accordance with the
procedures outlined in subsequent paragraphs.
(a) Responsive Financial Proposals shall be classified into the following groups:
4.2 For the purpose of further evaluation and comparison of Financial Proposals only, an
amount equal to 7.5% percent of the evaluated Financial Proposals' prices determined
in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 34.3 shall be added to all Financial Proposals
classified in Group B.
Since in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 39.6 the Public Body be allowed to award one or multiple lots to
more than one Consultant, the following methodology shall be used for award of multiple contracts:
(a) evaluate only lots or contracts that include at least the percentages of items per lot and quantity per
item as specified in ITC 19.7;
(i) the lowest-evaluated Proposal for each lot that meets the requirement of
evaluation criteria;
(ii) the price reduction per lot and the methodology for their application as of-
fered by the Consultant in its Financial Proposal; and
(iii) the contract-award sequence that provides the optimum economic combina-
tion, taking into account any limitations due to constraints in supply or exe-
cution capacity.
(i)
(b). The Public Body will evaluate any technical evaluation criterion using the following scoring scale:
SCORING DESCRIPTION
Exceeds the requirements of the criteria significantly and in beneficial ways/very
10 Excellent
desirable
9 Very Good Exceeds the requirements of the criteria in ways which are beneficial to our needs
7-8 Good Fully meets the requirement of the criteria
2.6 Individual weighted scores for all technical evaluation criteria shall be weighted
according to the set proportional weighting factors. The weighted result shall be
calculated by multiplying the score by the proportional weighting point of the individual
criterion.
2.7 Consultants getting score less than 70% in the evaluation shall be rejected and the
envelopes containing the Financial Proposals of those Consultants scoring 70% and
above shall be opened.
3. Evaluation and Comparison of Financial Proposals
According to the methodology defined in the Public Procurement Proclamation and Directive the
Public Body shall select the successful Consultant by applying the following method:
(a). 3.1 Quality and Cost Based Selection
(b). In the financial evaluation, the highest point shall be given to the lowest priced Financial Proposal,
and conversely, the lowest point shall be given to the highest priced Financial Proposal; among tech-
nically qualified Proposals. The points given to other Consultants shall be determined depending on
their price offers.
(c). From the total merit points to be given for proposals submitted by Consultants the share of Technical
Proposal shall be 80% and the remaining 20% shall be the share of Financial Proposal.
(d). The Public Body shall then add the technical score to the Financial Proposal Price score to determine
the aggregated (total) Bid Proposal score and final ranking of Proposals.
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(e). The Public Body shall award the contract to the Proposal that has the highest point in the total sum
of results of the technical and financial evaluation.
(f). Where two Consultants get equal merit points in the evaluation, preference shall be given to local
Consultants.
(g). The Public Body may require Consultants scoring equal merit points in the evaluation to submit fur -
ther Proposals on certain aspects of the Request of Proposals with a view to identifying the successful
Consultant.
(h). Where by reason of the Consultants scoring equal merit points not submitting final proposals they
are invited to submit, or by reason of the evaluation result of the final proposals submitted by the
Consultants being still equal the successful Consultant cannot be singled out, the successful Consul-
tant shall be determined by casting lot in the presence, as far as possible, of the Consultants con -
cerned
3.2 Domestic Preference
3.3 If the ITC Clause 34 so specifies, the Public Body will grant a margin of preference to
local consultancy companies for the purpose of bid comparison, in accordance with the
procedures outlined in subsequent paragraphs.
(a). Responsive Financial Proposals shall be classified into the following groups:
(i) Group A: Financial Proposals submitted by local consultancy companies meet-
ing the criteria of ITC Sub-Clause 34.3; and
(ii) Group B: all other Financial Proposals.
3.4 For the purpose of further evaluation and comparison of Financial Proposals only, an
amount equal to 7.5% percent of the evaluated Financial Proposals' prices determined
in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 34.3 shall be added to all Financial Proposals
classified in Group B.
4. Evaluation of Multiple Contracts
Since in accordance with ITC Sub-Clause 39.6 the Public Body be allowed to award one or multiple lots to
more than one Consultant, the following methodology shall be used for award of multiple contracts:
To determine the lowest-evaluated lot combinations, the Public Body shall:
(a). evaluate only lots or contracts that include at least the percentages of items per lot and quantity per
item as specified in ITC 19.7;
(b). take into account:
(i) The lowest-evaluated Proposal for each lot that meets the requirement of evalu-
ation criteria;
(ii) The price reduction per lot and the methodology for their application as offered
by the Consultant in its Financial Proposal; and
(iii) the contract-award sequence that provides the optimum economic combination,
taking into account any limitations due to constraints in supply or execution ca-
pacity.