To facilitate the implementation of EU funded programmes in Lao PDR by providing funding for all necessary support operations, helping to position the EU as a partner of reference for Lao PDR and its people.
See the official notice for the place of performance.
Average Annual Turnover: The candidate's or tenderer's average annual turnover of the last 3 financial years for which the accounts have been closed must be not less than 1 300 000 EUR.
Personnel: The candidate or tenderer has, during the current year and the previous two years, on average, at least: 15 personnel directly employed or otherwise legally contracted on a permanent or non-permanent basis in areas of specialist knowledge related to this contract.
No Professional Conflicting Interests: The candidate or tenderer is not subject to professional conflicting interests which may negatively affect contract performance. The presence of professional conflicting interests shall be examined on the basis of the statements made through the Declarations on Honour and, where applicable, the statements and other documents submitted.
Completed Contracts: The candidate or tenderer has completed services under at least three (3) contracts implemented at any moment during the last four years before submission deadline. For each contract, the value of the services completed must not be less than 800 000 EUR. The completed services are implemented in non-EU countries in at least one of the following domains: Public policy support; Support to coordination mechanisms between government and development partners, or between development partners; Institutional capacity development; Thematic studies; Enabling large-scale private quality investments; Organisation of several large-scale events (at least 200 participants). And within at least one of the following thematic fields: Environment; Renewable energy; Digital; Transport; Trade and/or Private Sector Development; Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET); Agricultural value chains; Citizen's engagement; Human Rights. This means that the contract the candidate or tenderer refers to could have been implemented at any time during the indicated period but it does not necessarily have to be completed during that period, nor implemented during the entire period. Candidates or tenderers are allowed to refer either to projects completed within the reference period (although started earlier) or to projects partially implemented during, but not yet completed within the reference period. Only the part completed during the reference period will be taken into consideration.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the request to participate of these candidates will be re-examined in order to rank them and identify the 8 best requests to participate for the tender procedure. The only additional comparative criteria that will be taken into consideration during this re-examination, in the order in which they appear below, are: Criterion 1: the highest number of contracts under which services have been completed that meet the technical capacity criterion; Criterion 2: the highest cumulated value of completed services that meet the technical capacity criterion. Additional comparative criterion No 1 shall be applied to all the eligible candidates that meet the selection criteria. If, after applying additional comparative criterion No 1, it is not possible to identify the 8 best candidates because two or more candidates are tied for the 8th position, additional comparative criterion No 2 shall be applied only to these tied candidates.
Published 8 April 2026 · rebuilt nightly from the official notice.