REQUEST FOR QUOTATION RFQ No UNFPA/SYR/RFQ/RH/24/04

Dear Sir/Madam,

UNFPA hereby solicits a quotation for the items attached.

 About UNFPA

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an international development agency that works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  

UNFPA is the lead UN agency that expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives. To read more about UNFPA, please go to: UNFPA about us

Objective:

UNFPA support Syrian MOH in the reproductive health sector as the detection of cervical cancer one of UNFPA program to supply PAP smear laboratory needs to increase early detection of cervical cancer. 

The objective of the RFQ is to identify a supplier who can provide UNFPA with all the above-mentioned products.  The selected vendor is expected to provide such products, based on specific Purchase Orders submitted to the vendor.

II – Detailed Technical Specifications

As indicated in the description and as per Annex II for Microscope.

Objectives and scope

·UNFPA Syria Country Office supports the national reproductive health program and non-governmental organizations to strengthen the healthcare system specifically reproductive health program in the following areas in primary healthcare services antenatal, perinatal, postpartum, and newborn care, family planning, including infertility, unsafe abortion, sexually and HIV diseases, cervical cancer (PAP smear) gynecological morbidities, and sexual and reproductive health as well as Provision of essential RH commodities, medicines, equipment and supplies, and family planning methods

●        Timing / Schedule: short delivery is preferable

II.            Questions

Questions or requests for further clarifications should be submitted in writing to the contact person below:

The deadline for submission of questions is 04/05/2024 at 12:00 PM Damascus time. Questions will be answered in writing and shared with all parties as soon as possible after this deadline.

III.            Eligible Bidders

This Request for Quotation is open to all eligible bidders; to be considered an eligible bidder for this solicitation process you must comply with the following:

●        A bidder must be a legally-constituted company that can provide the requested products and have legal capacity to enter into a contract with UNFPA to deliver in the country, or through an authorized representative.

●     A bidder must not have a conflict of interest regarding the solicitation process or with the Technical Specifications. Bidders found to have a conflict of interest shall be disqualified.

●        At the time of Bid submission, the bidder, including any JV/Consortium members, is not under procurement prohibitions derived from the Compendium of United Nations Security Council Sanctions Lists and has not been suspended, debarred, sanctioned or otherwise identified as ineligible by any UN Organization or the World Bank Group.

●     Bidders must adhere to the UN Supplier Code of Conduct, which may be found by clicking on UN Supplier Code of Conduct.

IV.            Content of quotations

Quotations should be submitted in a single email whenever possible, depending on file size. Quotations must contain:

a)       Technical proposal, in response to the requirements outlined in the specifications should comply with:

b)      Partial Quote is allowed.

c)       Signed Declaration Form, to be submitted strictly in accordance with the document.

d)      Price quotation, to be submitted strictly in accordance with the price quotation form

Both parts of the quotation must be signed by the company’s relevant authority and submitted in PDF format.

V.            Instructions for submission

Proposals should be prepared based on the guidelines set forth in Section IV above, along with a properly filled out and signed price quotation form, and are to be sent by email to the address indicated below no later than  :  – Wednesday 08 May 2024 at 12:00 PM Damascus Time.

Please note the following guidelines for electronic submissions to UNFPA’s Syria CO. secured email address:

●        The following reference must be included in the email subject line: RFQ Nº UNFPA/SYR/RFQ/RH/24/04 – [Title of the RFQ process as indicated above]. Proposals, including both technical and financial proposals, that do not contain the correct email subject line may be overlooked by the procurement officer and therefore not considered.

●        The total email size may not exceed 20 MB (including email body, encoded attachments and headers). Where the technical details are in large electronic files, it is recommended that these be sent separately before the deadline.

●        Please do NOT send the emails containing your offer to any other email address (not even as a copy (CC) or blind copy (BCC)); otherwise UNFPA will not be able to guarantee confidentiality and fair and transparent handling of your bid. UNFPA reserves the right to reject bids sent via the appropriate channel but copied or blind copied to other email addresses.

●        When submitting electronic offers, Bidders will receive an auto-reply acknowledging receipt of the first email. Should your offer require you to submit more than one email, in the body of this first email, bidders are requested to list the number of messages, which make up their technical offer and the number of messages, which make up their financial offer. If you do not receive any auto-reply for the first email from UNFPA’s email system, please inform Ms. Maisa AL Arab at:  alarab@unfpa.org  

●        Any quotation submitted will be regarded as an offer by the bidder and does not constitute or imply acceptance of the quotation by UNFPA. UNFPA is under no obligation to award a contract to any bidder as a result of this RFQ.

VI.            Overview of Evaluation Process

Quotations will be evaluated based on the compliance with the technical specifications and the  total landed cost   (as per price quote).

The evaluation will be carried out in a two-step process by an ad-hoc evaluation panel. Technical proposals will be evaluated for technical compliance prior to the comparison of price quotes.

VII.            Award

In case of a satisfactory result from the evaluation process, UNFPA shall award a Purchase Order to the lowest priced bidder whose bid has been determined to be substantially compliant with the bidding documents.

VIII.            Right to Vary Requirements at Time of Award

UNFPA reserves the right at the time of award of Contract to increase or decrease, by up to 20%, the volume of goods specified in this RFQ without any change in unit prices or other terms and conditions.

IX.            Payment Terms

UNFPA payment terms are net 30 days upon receipt of shipping documents, invoice and other documentation required by the contract.

X.            Fraud and Corruption

UNFPA is committed to preventing, identifying, and addressing all acts of fraud against UNFPA, as well as against third parties involved in UNFPA activities. UNFPA’s Policy regarding fraud and corruption is available here:  Fraud Policy. Submission of a proposal implies that the Bidder is aware of this policy.

Suppliers, their subsidiaries, agents, intermediaries and principals must cooperate with the UNFPA Office of Audit and Investigations Services as well as with any other oversight entity authorized by the Executive Director and with the UNFPA Ethics Advisor as and when required.  Such cooperation shall include, but not be limited to, the following: access to all employees, representatives agents and assignees of the vendor; as well as production of all documents requested, including financial records.  Failure to fully cooperate with investigations will be considered sufficient grounds to allow UNFPA to repudiate and terminate the Agreement, and to debar and remove the supplier from UNFPA's list of registered suppliers.

A confidential Anti-Fraud Hotline is available to any Bidder to report suspicious fraudulent activities at UNFPA Investigation Hotline.

XI.            Zero Tolerance

UNFPA has adopted a zero-tolerance policy on gifts and hospitality. Suppliers are therefore requested not to send gifts or offer hospitality to UNFPA personnel. Further details on this policy are available here: Zero Tolerance Policy.

XII.            RFQ Protest

Bidder(s) perceiving that they have been unjustly or unfairly treated in connection with a solicitation, evaluation, or award of a contract may submit a complaint to the UNFPA Head of the Business Unit Mrs. Muriel Mafico at mafico@unfpa.org Should the supplier be unsatisfied with the reply provided by the UNFPA Head of the Business Unit, the supplier may contact the Chief, Supply Chain Management Unit at supplychain@unfpa.org.

XIII.            Disclaimer

Should any of the links in this RFQ document be unavailable or inaccessible for any reason, bidders can contact the Procurement Officer in charge of the procurement to request for them to share a PDF version of such document(s).