PREPROPOSAL CONFERENCE

Clarifications for FOMILENIO RFP 003-2007 Service Provider (SP) 1

San Salvador, El Salvador.

June 12, 2007.

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Clarifications for FOMILENIO RFP 003-2007 Service Provider (SP) 1
No QUESTION
1 Please confirm whether the
consultant (consulting firm)
awarded the contract for Service
Provider (SP) 1 will be prohibited
from competing on all subsequent
contracts for the Productive
Development Program
ANSWER
Yes it will be prohibited. According to the Conflict of Interest appointed in:
MCC PROGRAM PROCUREMENT GUIDELINES
Conflict of Interest
1.9 Consultants shall provide professional, objective, and impartial advice
and at all times the interests of the MCA Entity paramount, without any
consideration for future work, and that in providing advice consultants shall
avoid conflicts with other assignments and their own corporate interests.
Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflict
with their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place them
in a position of being unable to carry out the assignment in the best interest
of the MCA Entity. Without limitation on the generality of the forgoing,
consultants shall not be hired under the circumstances set forth below:
(a) Conflict between consultant activities and procurement of goods, works
or non-consultant services: A firm that has been engaged by the MCA Entity
to provide goods, works, or non- consultant services for a Project, and each
of its affiliates, shall be disqualified from providing Consultant services
related to those goods, works or non-consultant services. Conversely, a firm
hired to provide consultant services for the preparation or implementation of
a Project, and each of its affiliates, shall be disqualified from subsequently
providing goods, works or non-consultant services resulting from or directly
related to the firm’s consultant services for such preparation or
implementation.
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(b) Conflict among consultant assignments: Neither consultants (including

their personnel and sub-consultants) nor any of their affiliates shall be hired
for any assignment that, by its nature, may be in conflict with another
assignment of the consultants. As an example, consultants hired to prepare
engineering design for an infrastructure Project generally should not be
engaged to prepare an independent environmental assessment for the same
Project. Similarly, consultants hired to prepare Terms of Reference (TOR) for
an assignment shall not be hired for that assignment.

(c) Relationships with the MCA Entity staff: Consultants (including their
personnel and subconsultants) that have a business or family relationship
with a member of the MCA Entity staff (or of the Project implementing
agency’s staff, or of a beneficiary of the Compact) who are directly or
indirectly involved in any part of:

(i) the preparation of the TOR of the contract,

(ii) the selection process for such contract, or

(iii) The supervision of such contract may not be awarded a contract,

unless the conflict stemming from this relationship has been resolved
in a manner acceptable to MCC throughout the selection process and
the execution of the contract.

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2 If copies of the SEA (Strategic Not for the Proposal preparation.
Environmental Assessment) and SEA and Gender Analysis will be made available to the contracted
Gender Analysis have been Consultant only.
completed, could they be made
available on the FOMILENIO website
for the preparation of the SP-1
proposal? If the studies are
underway, could FOMILENIO
provide information about the
progress, preliminary results, etc. of
the studies?
3 Please confirm the estimated a. NZ Resources Diagnostic Report. The table referred in page 55 states
completion dates in the table on erroneously that the Diagnostic is month 2, must be in month 3
page 57, “Table of Monthly Reports
and Percentage of Payment for b. The Text (page 53) about the Final BID evaluation reports for Service
Phase One”: Provider II is for the 4th month and The Table (page 55) states it to month
4.
a. NZ Resources Diagnostic
Report- The table states the c. The promotion and outreach Strategy Report is set for the 6th. Month as
estimated completion as Month is in the text (page 54) and the table (page 55).
2; however, on page 54 it states
Month 3.

b. Service Provider(s) II Bid

Evaluation Report- The table

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states the estimated completion
as Month 4; however, on page 55
it states Month 5.

c. Promotion and Outreach

Strategy Report- The table states
the estimated completion as
Month 6; however, on page 56 it
implies Month 5.
4 In Section 2 Instructions to Regarding the Financial Proposal, and pursuant to the General Conditions of
Consultants, items 3.8 and 3.10 Contract item 1.8, all taxes should not be included, considering that MCC
indicate that any tax liability should funds are exempt of any tax. Such exemption shall apply to any use of
be included in the fixed price Funding, Accrued Interests, Program Assets and any other work or activity
financial proposal. But the General performed in furtherance with the Compact by any person or entity,
Conditions of Contract item 1.8 including contractors or beneficiaries financed with MCC Funding, and shall
indicate that the contract price apply to any tax, tariff, custom duty, withholding and any other kind of
should not include any tax liability. charge.
Are any taxes to be included in the
fixed price financial proposal?
Please provide clarification
regarding the El Salvador tax
liability of a U.S. company under the
MCC agreement with the
Government of El Salvador.

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5 a. Please confirm that the three Please refer to Chapter 37 - Cost Principles for Government Affiliates
forms under Section 4 Financial Involved in MCC Compact Implementation
Proposal Standard Forms are
the only forms that comprise the
Financial Proposal.
6 Regarding Form FIN-3 Breakdown In the case of Deliverables of Phase 1, consultants can present the total
of Remunerations please: Price of the deliverable.
a. Provide a sample of a completed
Form FIN-3; But in Phase 2 it is strongly recommended to present the breakdown as
b. Indicate the header for the general accepted, which includes: Salaries, Fringe benefits, overhead costs,
information to be presented in G&A Cost.
each of the three columns; and
c. Confirm whether the
remuneration rates should
include all applicable fringe
benefits, overhead costs,
general & administrative costs,
etc. or just basic salary (i.e.
gross pay for labor, not
including allowances or fringe
benefits, overhead costs,
general & administrative costs,
etc).
7 Report on Due Diligence - Is the PA It will be made available to the contracted Consultant.
Consulting report a public

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document and how can it be
accessed?
8 Office Space - In the budgeting, No the consultant selected must contract this type of services; BMI will not
should office space be included or provide any service or support.
will the consultants be housed in
the BMI office?
9 Annexes - Must the full proposal, Yes.
including annexes by presented in
Spanish as well as English?
10 Page Limitations - On page 32 of the The 50 pages are for the Technical Proposal only.
RFP it delineates what is to go into
Form TECH-4. It also stated that
there will be a maximum of 50
pages . Are Tech Forms -6 (CVs), 5,
7, and 8 (which all relate to this
Form Tech-4 section) are included
in that 50-page limit.

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11 Possibility of extension - Based in the translation time required, no time extension is considered.
Considering that the proposal must
be prepared in both English and
Spanish, which is an extra burden
in preparing the proposal, the
Bidders conference is relatively late
in the proposal process and the
final request for clarification is June
19th, which greatly decreases the
effective time available to prepare
the proposal. With this shorten
timeframe the quality of proposals
will be adversely affected. In
addition, the requirement that all
proposals must be submitted in
hard copies in San Salvador, this
further reduces the effective days to
prepare the proposal. For this
reason, we are requesting an
extension of 5 work days or until
July 9, 2007. In this way higher
quality proposals will be submitted
by all bidders and will generally
increase the quality of the planning.

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12 In regards to the Announcement
advertised yesterday, for the RFP of
the Service Provider 1, a question
come up, If you are requesting
Consultants for the Project Design
Phase or you already are requesting
on field implementation, which the
area of our interest, as NGO.
(En atención al anuncio publicado
el día de ayer sobre RFP Service
Provider, nos surge la duda si se
están convocando a firmas
consultoras para el diseño del
proyecto o si ya están requiriendo
las propuestas de ejecución en
campo, que seria donde nosotros
como ONG estaríamos interesados
en aplicar.)
ANSWER
Service Provider I will assist BMI in launching the Productive Development
Project (Component) to ensure a rapid and successful start of the PDP
(Phase One) and, will assist BMI with implementation oversight and
management (Phase Two).
Phase One
1. Operations Structure
ƒ Develop PDP Operations Manual
ƒ Develop Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy
ƒ Develop Environmental and Social Assessment and Management
Strategy
2. Contracting of SP-2
ƒ Prepare Terms of Reference and evaluation criteria for SP-II
ƒ Assist in the contracting and selection process of SP-II
Phase Two
Provide technical support to BMI for PDP oversight, monitoring,
management, and PDP proposal analysis.
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PREPROPOSAL CONFERENCE
Clarifications for FOMILENIO RFP 003-2007 Service Provider (SP) 1

San Salvador, El Salvador.

June 12, 2007.

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