FAQ CALL FOR BODY FITTINGS

QUESTION 1 – Tender Specification – point 7.2.3 Specific Turnover. Since the tender is published with a date of January 12, 2016, it is asked whether the years of the five-year period to be referred to, in relation to specific turnover, are understood to be 2011 /2015.

QUESTION 2 – With reference to the call for bids regarding the setting up of “Corporea,” we are hereby requesting a clarification regarding the division into the 2 functional lots. In detail, which services refer to the first or second lot?

QUESTION 3.1 – With regard to the procedure described in this question, we ask whether the procedure involves only a tender for supplies and services or is there also work involved.

QUESTION 3.2 – If so, please specify the amount of work and any SOA category required and the amount of supplies.

QUESTION 4 – In point 7.2.3 of the tender specifications, the bidder, among the economic and financial capacity requirements, must produce a “statement certifying the specific turnover related to the sector of supply and installation of interactive exibits of scientific type in the museum field…”
The literal interpretation of the aforementioned text induces the competitor to declare that it has carried out, in the manner indicated in the aforementioned paragraph, specific turnover related to the field of supply and installation of interactive exibit in a museum context. The specification “of a scientific nature,” given the common meaning of the term, refers to concepts such as: understanding, knowing, knowledge of a certain order of facts …. Therefore, by virtue of this meaning, we ask for confirmation that the bidder can indicate as specific turnover all those services that relate to the multimedia technology required by the tender and referred to subjects also of other cultural or historical nature, therefore, not typically related to the narration of the human body. In fact, such areas, because of their specificity, are obligatorily subject to scientific validations by the various Commissions. On the other hand, the current Contracting Authority when requesting “turnkey” supply of hardware and related content related to the themes of the human body, divides a moment of mere technology with that of content narrative, of which it will be the responsibility of the bidder to later certify the relevant validation.
It is further specified that any request for exibits of a “scientific type,” in the literal sense of the term, restricts participation to only a few companies that have been active in the specific field of the human body, not allowing for widespread and maximum participation and competition.
Moreover, according to the relevant public procurement regulations, the indication of similar services must meet the need for the bidder to possess technical requirements related to the specific professionalism and qualification of the bidder (competence), the functionality of its activity (efficiency), the greater expertise resulting from having carried out the activity for a certain time (experience) and the nature of the results reported in the past (reliability).

QUESTION 5.1 – Regarding the scientific contents of the set-up (e.g., texts for panels, for instructional videos, etc.) will these be provided by the contracting station?If such contents are not provided, will the contracting station have its own Scientific Committee that will screen the texts and documents proposed by the contractor before the set-up is put in place?

QUESTION 5.2 – Will the figures (individuals, entities and associations) who participated in the drafting of the “technical document” and indicated in the first pages of the same, be able to become part of groupings participating in the tender, as consultants, tutors, coordinators of the scientific aspects of the setting up?

QUESTION 5.3 – When evaluating individual proposals, will the scientific contributions of figures (individuals, entities, and associations) that will be proposed by the participating groupings be considered for the technical merit score?
If yes, in what way?
In the Administrative documentation “Envelope A” and/or Technical documentation “Envelope B” are there specific attached templates for CVs ?

QUESTION 5.4 – Section 9.1 of the specifications provides for constituent groupings.
What type, with respect to Art. 37 L. No. 163, horizontal, vertical or mixed?

QUESTION 6 – With reference to what is stated on page 18/19 Par. 20 PAYMENTS
“The payment of each individual SAL is, however, subject to the actual procurement of the financial resources needed for this purpose by the Campania Region according to the Rules of the Cohesion Development Fund.”
Does this mean that the payment of the SAL is suspended until the Region has collected the financial resources?

QUESTION 7.1 – For what reasons and under what terms can it be possible (if it is possible), to extend the delivery time of the complete exhibit (including designs, production, testing and assembly for both batches)?

QUESTION 7.2 – Do we interpret correctly by saying that the deadline for delivery of the outfitting is (including designs, production, testing and assembly for both lots) November 30, 2016?

QUESTION 7.3 – What is the latest date by which you assume to award the contract by signing the contracts, based on the established bidding process?

QUESTION 8 – Is it “mandatory” in the case of an RTI being formed that one of the economic operators must belong to a foreign state?

QUESTION 9 – Regarding the call for bids in question, we assume our participation with the involvement of a non-Italian company. I am therefore asking if this contracting station has any declaration formats for this type of eventuality that could support us in this regard.

QUESTION 10.1 – Is it possible to submit multiple proposals to combine the two lots?

QUESTION 11 -relating to the possible participation of a foreign party in the tender in question we would like to be able to have the following information:
the availability of the tender documents in English, the manner in which foreign parties are required to prove that they meet the requirements set out in the tender specifications.

QUESTION 12.1 – Regarding the modalities of inspection: since we will participate in a grouping (not to be formed yet) with several partners including a University, I ask you, regarding the latter, if they can delegate the inspection to a person belonging to another of the companies in the grouping or if one of their representatives/employees must necessarily come.

QUESTION 12.2 – Concerning the parties allowed to bid: a firm of architects not formally established as an associated firm will also participate. So the question is: can there be co-partnership of firms and professionals? And also: can the firm’s professionals also be in a “temporary grouping being formed” (thus not yet formed) at the time of application? And finally: do all the professionals in this “sub-grouping” have to carry out the inspection or can they delegate a group leader?

QUESTION 13 – Is the scoring of the evaluation parameter ” Proposed solution for the control, management, monitoring of the exhibit elements” correct to attribute it to the contents of the “technical report describing the equipment, electrical, audio-visual, mechanical, technological, lighting and whatever else is necessary for the exhibition set-up” ?
Is it correct to interpret that there is no specific score to be given to the improvements offered regarding audio video and lighting systems?

QUESTION 14 – Confirmation is requested that in the case of an RTI being formed, the mandated companies do not have to possess a minimum percentage of the expected economic and financial capacity requirement (Section 7.2.3) as required in the amount of 60% for the mandated company, without prejudice to the overall value provided.

QUESTION 15 – With reference to the call for tenders DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EXHIBITION CONTENTS OF “CORPOREA, VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF THE HUMAN BODY,” and in particular point 7.2.3 concerning the specific turnover required for participation, we ask whether it is possible to indicate as similar turnover also relevant services that are in progress and not yet completed. Invoices and possibly also accounting documents showing that payments have been made by the client will be submitted for verification of the participation requirements.

QUESTION 16 – With regard to the call for tenders in question, we would like to know whether “architectural design” services contribute to the demonstration of possession of the specific turnover referred to in Article 7.2.3 of the Tender Specifications, considering that they also appear to be the subject of evaluation.

QUESTION 17 – We noticed that the Tender Specification in paragraph 7.2.3 last point, asks competitors to comply with Article 37 paragraph 13 of Leg. 163/2006. However, Suddetto article appears to have been repealed by Law 80/2014 in effect since May 2014. We therefore ask how to interpret said prescription.

QUESTION 18.1 – On pages 38/39 of the ITD (technical explanatory document), chapter II.2.b, “The entrance to the islands,” what is meant by the development of footage that will be subject to a stand-alone procedure? Will they be subject to a new call for tenders? Are they the only footage that is not part of this tender? Since the museum is to be delivered on a turnkey basis, how will this specific content be handled with respect to the timeline of the chronogram?

QUESTION 18.2 – Regarding lots 1 and 2; we understand that they are divided at our discretion but in any case must both be done by 11/30/2016 because of FSC funds. Should we exclude the possibility of a possible extension by paying the fine of €1,000 per day?

QUESTION 18.3 – Regarding the ANAC payment, should the €140.00 payment be made for each lot or is €140 the total of the two lots?

QUESTION 18.4 – On pg. 7/19 of the DDG (tender specifications); what are the “globally considered requirements” that are mentioned in the specifications that in any case must be of the principal?

QUESTION 18.5 – On p. 7/19 of the DDG; can you confirm us that, in case of a “forming Consortium” (i.e. having signed Annexes 2 and 3), if one of the Consortium companies has 60% of the economic financial requirements in 7.2.2 and 7.2.3, the other Consortium companies may not have specific turnover (7.2.3) provided that the sum of the Consortium’s economic requirements reaches €3,000,000 and €6,000,000?

QUESTION 18.6 – DDG Item 9.3 – we would like to know whether Envelope C should contain only the completed Annex 7 in all its items and whether “List of Supplies” means the list in Annex 7, i.e., the quotation breakdown by lots and islands.

QUESTION 18.7 – Item 9.3 of the DDG, since there are in fact cost items that could involve the 2 lots can we provide in Annex 7 an expenditure chapter regardless of the lots? If not, can we predetermine the order of execution of the lots at our discretion?

QUESTION 19.1 – With regard to the call for tenders in question, we would like to ask the following questions concerning the other exhibition spaces (point II.3 of the “Technical Illustrative Document,” pp. 40-41): What is the quantity of parking areas?

QUESTION 19.2 – What is the size of the space available regarding the outdoor park? What target audience should be considered?

QUESTION 20 – We would like to confirm that in the case of the use of the institute of outsourcing, the auxiliary party is not obliged to carry out the inspection, and that the same obligation remains with only the auxiliary party declaring that it avails itself of the requirements necessary for the auxiliary economic operator to participate in the tender.

QUESTION 21.1 – There are three companies that are part of a constituting consortium, two of which alone fulfill the turnover requirement while the third has no specific turnover. Can the latter, without specific turnover, be submitted as part of the consortium or should it be put as a subcontractor?

QUESTION 21.2 – On pages 40-41, point II.3.a and point II.3.b, of the Technical Illustrative Document, there is mention of two spaces dedicated to the “History of Medicine of Naples” and “Active Space.” Are the design, implementation and supplies of these areas included in the call for proposals?