B-Brussels: COMP/2008/E3/008 external consultant in the shipbuilding sector

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:146921-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 7, 2008

Deadline:

Jul 14, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

English

Address:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium

74100000 - Legal, accounting, auditing, business, management and related services

Notice Type: C398
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 110/2008
, #
146921-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission,
Competition DG, attn: Isabelle Bénoliel, J-70 05/25, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/index_en.html.
Further information can be obtained from:
European Commission, Competition DG — Directorate E — Unit E3, attn: Mr
Paul Csiszar, European Commission Office J-70 1/145, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Fax (32-2) 296 95 79. E-mail: comp-e3@ec.europa.eu.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from:
European Commission, Competition DG — Directorate E — Unit E3, attn: Mr
Karl Soukup, European Commission Office SPA 3 6/69, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Fax (32-2) 296 95 79. E-mail: comp-e3@ec.europa.eu.
URL: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/competition/proposals2/.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
European Commission, Competition DG — Directorate E — Unit E3, attn: Mr
Paul Csiszar, European Commission Office J-70 1/145, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Fax (32-2) 296 95 79. E-mail: comp-e3@ec.europa.eu.
I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
General public services.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
COMP/2008/E3/008 External consultant in the shipbuilding sector.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 10.
Main place of performance: the place of performance of the task shall be
the contractor's premises or any other place indicated in the tender (e.g.
when visiting shipyards' sites), with the exception of the Commission's
premises. However meetings between the Commission and the successful
contractor may be held on Commission premises.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: duration in year(s): 1.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 59 300.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Community
State aid legislation provides specific rules for the shipbuilding sector,
of which the monitoring and control require complex technical expertise.
In order to appropriately deal with State aid cases in this sector, the
Commission seeks a consolidated technical assistance.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74100000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The maximum contract value p.a. is
estimated at EUR 59 300. In case of yearly renewals of the contract the
total contract value for the period 2008–2011 is estimated at maximum EUR
237 200. Both amounts include all costs and exclude VAT, from which the
Commission is exempt.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 12 (from the award of the contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Payment arrangements
are dealt with in articles I.5, II.4, II.5, II.7 of the framework service
contract and point 7 of the specification to the invitation to tender.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
For natural and legal persons:
— name, address, telephone and fax numbers,
— VAT registration number,
— bank account number and bank's name and address,
— certificate of enrolment on the professional trade register in
accordance with the legislation of the Member State in which the tenderer
is established.
For legal persons the following information is necessary in addition to
the above:
— legal status,
— copy of the company's memorandum and articles of association,
— names and duties of managerial staff.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Proof of economic and financial capacity may be furnished by 1 or more of
the following documents:
— appropriate statements from banks or evidence of professional risk
indemnity insurance,
— the presentation of balance sheets or extracts from balance sheets for
at least the last 2 years for which accounts have been closed, where
publication of the balance sheet is required under the company law of the
country in which the economic operator is established,
— a statement of overall turnover and turnover concerning the services
covered by the contract during the last 3 financial years.
If, for some exceptional reason which the contracting authority considers
justified, the tenderer or candidate is unable to provide the references
requested by the contracting authority, he may prove his economic and
financial capacity by any other means which the Commission considers
appropriate.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
The tenderer must comply with the following criteria:
(a) demonstrable knowledge and experience in shipbuilding sector;
(b) demonstrable knowledge and experience with the Commission's approach
towards the assessment of State aid to shipbuilding. Specific skills are
required in the context of rescue and restructuring firms in difficulties;
(c) demonstrable reliability to execute the tasks required in terms of the
human and technical resources.
Evidence of the technical and professional capacity of economic operators
may be furnished on the basis of the following documents:
(a) the educational and professional qualifications of the service
provider or contractor and/or those of the firm's managerial staff and, in
particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the
services or carrying out the works;
(b) a list of the principal services provided and supplies delivered in
the past 3 years, with the sums, dates and recipients, public or private;
(c) a description of the measures employed to ensure the quality of
supplies and services, and a description of the firm's study and research
facilities;
(d) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether
or not belonging directly to the firm, especially those responsible for
quality control;
(e) a statement of the average annual manpower and the number of
managerial staff of the service provider or contractor in the last 3
years;
(f) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the service
provider may intend to subcontract.
Where the services or supplies referred to in point (b) of the first
subparagraph are provided to contracting authorities (including the
Commission), evidence of performance shall be in the form of certificates
issued or countersigned by the competent authority.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Yes.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
COMP/2008/E3/008.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
14.7.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and
Swedish.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 28.7.2008 (15:00).
Place: European Commission, Competition DG, Rue Joseph II 70, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
A representative of each tenderer may attend the opening of the bids.
Companies wishing to attend are requested to notify their intention by
sending a fax or e-mail at least 48 hours in advance to Mr Karl Soukup.
Fax (32-2) 296 95 79 or e-mail comp-e3@ec.europa.eu.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No.
VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU
funds: No.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg.
Tel. (352) 43 03-1. Fax (352) 43 37 66. URL: http://curia.eu.int.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
The European Ombudsman, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, BP 403,
F-67001 Strasbourg Cedex. Tel. (33) 388 17 23 13. Fax (33) 388 17 90 62.
URL: http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals:
within 2 months of the notification to the plaintiff, or, in the absence
thereof, of the day on which it came to the knowledge. A complaint to the
European Ombudsman does not have as an effect either to suspend this
period or to open a new period for lodging appeals.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 26.5.2008.

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