September 12th, 2024
Bid Notice
< Ref. No. 20240912932-00 (2024-B20240421-00)>
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for the Development of KPS
Monitoring Station Receiver (MSR).
The following is an outline of the Bid and RFP requirements, so potential Bidders are requested to carefully
review the following instructions and to submit their Proposals in accordance with the guidelines and
requirements as contained in the Request for Proposal (RFP).
1. Main Scope
- Item: The Development of KPS Monitoring Station Receiver (MSR)
- Estimated Price: USD 13,000,000
- Method of Contract: a limited competitive bid (Contract through Negotiation)
2. Qualification of Bidder
- Bidders, as an attendee of Bid Presentation,shall meet the requirements under Article 12 (Requirement to
Participate in Competitive Tender by Law) of the ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE ACT ON CONTRACTS TO
WHICH THE STATE IS A PARTY of Republic of Korea, and shall not be restricted by the provisions of Article 76
(Restrictions on Qualification for Participation of Dishonest Business Operators in Tendering Procedure) thereof.
- Bidders shall have knowledge and first-hand experience in designing, manufacturing, integrating, and testing
of KPS Monitoring Station Receiver (MSR) as described in the RFP. Bidders shall submit documents of proof on
their relevant experience(s) in the development of KPS Monitoring Station Receiver (MSR) in their proposals.
- Bidders shall be in possession of all the necessary licenses, in effect as of the Bid Closing Date and up to the
completion of the development.
- The qualifying statement for requirements and supporting materials shall be provided in the proposal.
Additional qualifying evidences may be requested to substantiate Bidder's claim during the evaluation.
- The qualification of Bidders is solely up to the KARI evaluation committee's decision, and unsuccessful Bidders
shall not raise any objection regarding the KARI evaluation committee's decision thereupon.
3. Bid Presentation and RFP Distribution
- The Bid Presentation will be held in order for KARI to give more detailed information about the Bid and to
distribute RFP packages. Only Bidders who attend the Bid Presentation and receive the RFP packages after
confirming their qualifications to participate in the bid, shall be allowed to submit the Proposal.
※ The RFP packages must be returned at the time of submission of Proposal.
- Date and Time : September 20th, 2024 11:00 Korean Local Time
- Place : Meeting Room (2F), the Industry Academia Research B/D (B/D #24) at KARI
- Bidder shall submit evidence and/or documents to prove qualification of Bidders. And If any Korean agent or
representative in Korea participates in the Bid Presentation on behalf of Bidders, the Korean agent or
representative shall submit power of attorney from Bidder and a copy of his identification at the Bid
Presentation.
4. Submittal of Proposal
- Bid Closing Date and Time: October 24th, 2024 12:00 Korean Local Time
※ The proposal submitted after the designated date and time shall be considered as invalid.
- Proposals i) in hard copies in A4 size (For Proposal except for the price information – Ten (10) copies in addition
to one (1) original; For price proposal – Two (2) original proposals) and ii) in soft copies (two (2) sets of readable
documents (PDF preferred) in USBs without price proposal) shall be submitted along with the bid bond, by
hand-delivery or via appropriate courier service to KARI personnel or his designee before the Bid Closing Date
and Time. On submission of proposal by Bidder’s deputy, one (1) power of attorney and a copy of his
identification are required to be presented.
- The Bid currency is USD (However, other currency can be allowed).
- The proposal shall be made in English.
- The distributed RFP must be returned when submitting the Proposal.
5. Bid Bond
- Bidder shall establish a bid bond in favor of KARI before the Bid Closing Date and Time. The total amount of
the bid bond shall be at least five percent (5%) of total bid price and shall be valid for six (6) months after Bid
Closing Date.
- The currency of bid bond is USD (Other currency can be allowed).
- The Bid Bond shall be in the form of a surety bond issued by the Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company, in the
form of an irrevocable standby letter of credit or bank guarantee by first class international bank, cash or other
means of gurantee acceptable to KARI. In case of surety bond, it shall be advised through “the Seoul Guarantee
Insurance Company”. In case of cash, bank guarantee, or the irrevocable standby letter of credit, it shall be
advised through “Woori Bank” (Daejeon Banking center at 29 Munye-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 35241 Korea, Tel:+82-
42-488-9704, Ext.312, Fax: +82-505-002-9141, e-mail: 4180725@wooribank.com). The bond shall be available
by KARI’s request on the Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company or by KARI’s draft at sight drawn on the bank,
accompanied by the statement of KARI stating that the Bidder has refused to enter into a contract with the
terms and conditions in the Request for Proposal as amended, if any, that the Bidder has hindered fair bidding
by fraud or mispresentation, or that the Bidder has withdrawn its Proposal after the Bid Closing Date.
6. Nullification of Bid
- This bidding may be nullified in accordance with Article 39(4) of ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE ACT ON
CONTRACTS TO WHICH THE STATE IS A PARTY and Article 44 of ENFORCEMENT RULE OF THE ACT ON
CONTRACTS TO WHICH THE STATE IS A PARTY.
7. Evaluation of Proposal
- Evaluation of technical part: 90 point, evaluation of price: 10 point
- Unless otherwise specified herein, any necessary standards and procedures for the execution of the Contract
shall be in accordance with the “Standards of Execution of Contract by Negotiation” (the Ministry of Strategy
and Finance’s established rules on contracts) and the RFP.
- According to the “Standards of Execution of Contract by Negotiation” and the RFP, both technical part and price
part are evaluated. Through the evaluation of technical proposal, a Bidder who gets score exceeding eighty
five percent (85%) of score in technical part and proposes bid price below the Estimated Price will be selected
as Qualified Bidder. And by the combined result of the technical score and the price score the Successful Bidder
and the Qualified Bidders’ rank will be decided in accordance with the ranking of total score (if the total score
is the same, the Bidder with higher score in technical part is preferred to others). Notwithstanding the technical
part evaluation, the bidders whose proposed price exceed the Estimated Price shall not be considered as the
Qualified Bidders.
- The Bidders who are evaluated as qualified in the technical aspect through the technical evaluation, may attend
the evaluation of price proposal on the date and time informed by e-mail and in case a deputy who is designated
by Bidder attends above process, he or she shall submit a power of attorney letter signed by Bidder and his/her
certified identification to KARI. If Bidders or any deputy cannot attend the evaluation of price proposal, a
KARI’s employee who is not connected to this bidding will attend and monitor the evaluation of price proposal.
※ The exchange rate applied for the price evaluation is the 1st basic exchange rate of KEB Hana Bank for the
bid currency on the price evaluation date.
8. Remarks
- The Bidder shall have a full understanding of all matters necessary for this Bidding including the RFP prior to
making a bid and shall be responsible for any and all disadvantages arising from insufficient understanding of
matters necessary for this Bidding.
- Bidder shall prepare the Proposal in truth. In case that any content of the Proposal is founded to be false later,
KARI may terminate or cancel the Contract even after the Contract is executed.
- All documents submitted in response to the RFP including the Proposal for this Bidding shall not be returned.
- All expenses incurred by Bidder in connection with its Proposal for this Bidding are for its own account and
KARI will not disclose the evaluation result of Bidder’s Proposal.
- If any Bidder is bankrupted or insolvent as of the date of this bid notice, such Bidder shall not be allowed to
participate in this Bidding.
- Bidders are required to keep confidential any data and information acquired in the Contract award. If any
Bidder violates it, such Bidder may assume civil and criminal liability, sanction for inappropriate business entity,
and other disadvantages (such as penalty for security violation, subtraction of evaluation scores in future
biddings, etc.).
- The RFP and Contract shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea.
9. Point of Contact for Bidding
Contractual matters
Technical matters
Overseas Contracts Office
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn. : Eun-Jung Lee (Ms)
Tel. : +82-42-860-2148
Fax : +82-42-860-4370
e-mail : monicalee@kari.re.kr
KPS R&D Directorate
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
169-84 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu,
Daejeon, 34133, Korea
Attn: Jinsil Lee (Dr.)
Tel : +82-42-860-2792
e-mail : jinsil@kari.re.kr
Attn. : Jongsun AHN (Dr.)
Tel : +82-42-870-3506
e-mail : jsever@kari.re.kr