1) Q: Is it necessary to submit all the the required documents for the call for tender in Italian? <\/P>
A: No, it is possible to submit the documents only in English. <\/P>
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2) Q: Which date should be used to calculate the official exchange rate to convert in Euros the amounts contained in the documents expressed in another currency?<\/P>
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A: 24 March 2015<\/P>
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3) Q: For the Temporary gurantee is a bank guarantee?<\/P>
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A: Yes<\/P>
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4) Q: Who should be the beneficiary of the temporary guarantee?<\/P>
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A: Ambasciata d’Italia a Minsk (Italian Embassy in Minsk) <\/P>
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5) Q: In order for the external provider to be able to accurately assess the <\/P>
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size of centre needed in Minsk and the need for other centres in other <\/P>
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locations around Belarus, can the Office please provide the external <\/P>
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provider with a breakdown of application volumes by city of residence of the <\/P>
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applicant? <\/P>
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A: In 2014 the geographical distribution of applicants by place of official <\/P>
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registration where the following (out of 44,799 applications): Minsk <\/P>
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city 16,221 (36.2%), Minsk region 4,996 (11.2%), Vitebsk 3,174 (7.1%), Gomel <\/P>
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9,392 (21.0%), Moghilev 4,078 (9.1%), Brest 3,937 (8.8%) Grodno 2,028 <\/P>
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(4.5%), other 973 (2.2%)<\/P>
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6) Q: Could the Office highlight which other cities in Belarus they are <\/P>
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interested in having a Visa Application Centre and the approximate volumes <\/P>
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of applicants in those locations?<\/P>
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A: Priority cities are Gomel and Brest. Past volumes of applications are <\/P>
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stated above. We expect a significant increase in the volume of applications<\/P>
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once a visa centre is open.<\/P>
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7) Q: Will data entry and biometric data collection software be provided by <\/P>
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the Embassy? <\/P>
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A: Software will be provided by the embassy. All the other equipments, <\/P>
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including hardware machinery to collect biometric data, shall be provided by <\/P>
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the selected bidder.\u00a0 <\/P>
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8) Q: Would the Office please state whether it would accept sharing a Visa <\/P>
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Application Centre space with another European country? <\/P>
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A: In principle yes, but waiting lines for customers shall be clearly <\/P>
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separated. Organisation of Work and Infrastructures provided will be <\/P>
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evalueted\u00a0 under point b) and c) of the selection criteria. <\/P>
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9) Q: Can the office please clarify if there is a distance limit between the <\/P>
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Visa Application Centre and the Embassy premises? <\/P>
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A: There is no such limit. Organisation of Work and Infrastructures provided <\/P>
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will be evalueted\u00a0 under point b) and c) of the selection criteria. <\/P>
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10) Q: Can the Office please state whether it would require any staff <\/P>
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employed for the external service provider to support the visa application <\/P>
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processing at the Embassy premises?<\/P>
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A: This is not a requirement, but it will be\u00a0 favorably considered at the <\/P>
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moment of evaluation of the application under point d) of the selection criteria. <\/P>
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11) Q: In the case of applicants in temporary groupings, the requirement of <\/P>
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two bank references shall be provided only by the main partner or by all the <\/P>
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members of the grouping? <\/P>
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A:Yes, only the main partner should mandatorily provide two bank references.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1) Q: Is it necessary to submit all the the required documents for the call for tender in Italian? A: No, it is possible to submit the documents only in English. \u00a0 2) Q: Which date should be used to calculate the official exchange rate to convert in Euros the amounts contained in the documents […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambminsk.esteri.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}