{"id":3299,"date":"2010-11-11T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2010-11-11T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:45:35","slug":"technical-assistance-to-the-national-railway-authority-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/technical-assistance-to-the-national-railway-authority-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical assistance to the National Railway Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <A href=\"http:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:331687-2010:TEXT:EN:HTML&#038;src=0\">OJEU notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"fullDocument\">\n<div class=\"tab\">\n<p>09\/11\/2010\tS217 External aid programmes &#8211; Service contract &#8211; Prior Information Notice &#8211; Prior information or periodic indicative notice\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\" class=\"stdoc\">\n<p>AF-Kabul: DCI &mdash; technical assistance to the National Railway Authority in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>2010\/S 217-331687<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DocumentBody\">\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\" class=\"stdoc\">\n<p>Location: Asia &mdash; Afghanistan <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\" class=\"stdoc\">\n<p>Contract forecast notice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\" class=\"stdoc\">\n<p>Services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):<\/p>\n<p>Main object:<\/p>\n<p>71356200 Technical assistance services<\/p>\n<p>Additional object(s):<\/p>\n<p>79314000 Feasibility study<\/p>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a01.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Publication reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">EuropeAid\/130690\/C\/SER\/AF.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a02.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Procedure:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">Restricted.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a03.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Programme: <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">DCI.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a04.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Financing:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">Financing agreement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a05.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Contracting authority:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">\nEuropean Union, represented by the European Commission, on behalf of and for the account of the beneficiary countries, Kabul, AFGHANISTAN.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a06.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Nature of contract:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">Fee-based.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a07.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Contract description:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">The forecast service contract aims to provide technical assistance to the Government of Afghanistan in order to:<br \/>1) help establish a National Railway Authority;<br \/>2) provide support to capacity building;<br \/>3) provide assessment of country-wide railway feasibility;<br \/>4) provide assessment of country-specific technical issues (e.g. gauge).<br \/>The most important criteria for contracting an expert team will be proven expertise in the areas of: <br \/>&mdash; institutional building,<br \/>&mdash; capacity building,<br \/>&mdash; transport economics, and<br \/>&mdash; railway engineering.<br \/>The indicative duration of the service contract will be 30 months and the team will be based in Kabul (Afghanistan), working closely with the involved ministries, governmental agencies and international donors. Coordination with the neighbour countries will be channelled via the Secretariat for Regional Cooperation. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a08.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Numbers and titles of lots:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">The contract is divided into lots:<br \/>No, 1 lot only.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a09.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Budget:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">Maximum budget: 1 550 000 EUR.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a010.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Intended timing of publication of procurement notice:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">December 2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a011.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Additional information<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a012.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Legal basis:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">DCI-ASIE.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mlioccur\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a013.<span class=\"timark\" style=\"font-weight:bold;color:black;\">Date of dispatch of this notice:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:black\" class=\"txtmark\">27.10.2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grseq\">\n<p class=\"tigrseq\"><b><u>Remarks:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>There must be a minimum period of 30 calendar days between the publication of this contract forecast and the publication of the corresponding procurement notice.<\/p>\n<p>No applications or requests for information should be sent at this stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/\/ grseq end--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OJEU notice. 09\/11\/2010 S217 External aid programmes &#8211; Service contract &#8211; Prior Information Notice &#8211; Prior information or periodic indicative notice\u00a0 AF-Kabul: DCI &mdash; technical assistance to the National Railway Authority in Afghanistan 2010\/S 217-331687 Location: Asia &mdash; Afghanistan Contract forecast notice Services Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): Main object: 71356200 Technical assistance services Additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-ojeu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}