Agroindustrial Project – Catatumbo

Description

Colombia, through the National Planning Department (DNP), has financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) within the framework of the "Program for the Consolidation of Private Participation Schemes in Infrastructure". This call invites eligible consulting firms to express their interest in conducting pre-feasibility studies for a regional productive development project.

Scope of the consultancy
The specialized service consists of structuring the initial viability of the project by fulfilling the following objective:

To carry out technical, financial, legal and institutional pre-feasibility studies for the construction of a center for the transformation of cocoa in the Catatumbo region.

Design the structuring scheme under the mechanism of linking private capital and development of sustainable business models.

Qualification requirements and experience criteria
Interested consulting firms must demonstrate proven experience through fully finalized contracts that accredit the following activities:

Criterion 1 (Agro-industrial and productive infrastructure): Completed pre-feasibility, feasibility, structuring, conceptual designs, formulation or comprehensive evaluation of agro-industrial projects, production, food processing, agricultural logistics, collection centers or rural infrastructure. Projects must include at least two (2) technical, operational, market, legal, or financial components.

Criterion 2 (Cocoa production chain): Studies completed with the same level of technical depth detailed in the previous criterion, but applied specifically to the cocoa production and supply chain.

Accreditation flexibility: The same technical expertise may be used to simultaneously validate both criteria, provided that its purpose and scope clearly demonstrate the required components.

Experience limits: A maximum of 10 experiences will be received for each of the criteria. If additional contracts are listed, only the first 10 in the order of submission will be evaluated.

Percentage of associative participation: For contracts executed under any form of consortium or association, the individual experience will only be valid if the percentage of participation of the firm was greater than or equal to 20%.

Tie-breaking mechanism: In case of equality in the number of valid projects, the firm with the highest number of contracts in Criterion 2 will be prioritized. If the tie persists, it will be resolved in favor of the higher accumulated economic value of the contracts and, ultimately, by the longer trajectory in the sector.

Guidelines for Filing and Filing
Use of Form 2 (Excel): Proposers must register their projects in the attached Excel file (submitted without restrictions), consolidating all information into a single spreadsheet and strictly using one (1) row for each contract.

Coincidence of legal identity: The company name reported on the forms must coincide identically with the signature that presents the expression of interest. In the case of international firms that use the trajectory of their parent company or subsidiaries, the entity that signs the formal application must be said parent company or subsidiary.

Delivery method: Written documentation must be submitted following the official channels of the contracting entity. For this particular process, bidding by electronic means is permitted.

Note: Consultation documents and supplementary specifications are available in the official language of the country.