B-Brussels: production of a high-quality book (with text and illustrations) in a format similar to DIN A4

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:158983-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 1, 2008

Deadline:

Jul 16, 2008

Buyer:

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Original Language:

French

Address:

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
BRUSSELS
Belgium

Email:

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Notice Type: CONS
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 120/2008
, #
158983-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Contract notice
Supplies
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): Council of the European Union,
General Secretariat, attn: Procurement Coordination Unit, Office 1070 KL
77, rue de la Loi 175, B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62.
Fax (32-2) 281 80 93. E-mail: tendering@consilium.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://www.tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
Further information can be obtained from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, rue de la Loi 175,
B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel. Address for deliveries by hand or private
courier: chaussée d'Etterbeek 70 — quai de déchargement (8:30–16:30).
Requests to participate sent by e-mail or fax must be confirmed by letter
sent to: Procurement Coordination Unit, Office 1070 KL 77, B-1048
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62. Fax (32-2) 281 80 93. E-mail:
tendering@consilium.europa.eu. URL: https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu/
callstend/.
I.2) Type of 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:
UCA 055/08 — production of a high-quality book (with text and
illustrations) in a format similar to DIN A4.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: B-Bruxelles/Brussel and L-Luxembourg.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on the framework agreement: Framework agreement with
a single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: 2 years.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Secretariat
will enter into a contract for the production of a work (approximately 450
pages) in a format similar to DIN A4. Most of the text and illustrations
will come from the book 'Europe: giving shape to an idea', previously
published by the Council. The General Secretariat will provide the text in
electronic form and the illustrations in either electronic form or in the
form of a physical image to be processed by the contractor. The book will
be produced in 3 language versions: English, French and German. The
contract entails graphic design, layout, production of proofs,
typographical revision, printing, binding, packaging and delivery.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 22000000, 22110000,
78000000, 78110000.
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 estimated initial print run will be
15 000 copies in English, 12 000 in French and 5 000 in German. The final
print run will be given in the specifications. The contract may involve
additional print runs and/or language versions.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 24 (from the award of the contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: To be stated in the
specifications which will be sent to the candidates selected.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: To be stated in the
specifications which will be sent to the candidates selected.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Groupings are permitted to tender,
irrespective of their legal form. Groupings (or consortia) must state the
name of the company and the person responsible for the project and must
also submit a copy of the documents authorising said company or person to
tender or to sign a contract on behalf of the grouping/consortium.
Subcontracting is permitted, but only for activities which do not
constitute a major part of the contract. Tenderers must state clearly in
their tender which supplies will be subcontracted. The names of the
subcontractor companies must be clearly stated in the tender, and these
companies must comply with the same exclusion criteria as tenderers.
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 whether requirements have been met:
candidates are requested to submit an application package containing the
documents specified below (points III.2.1, III.2.2 and III.2.3).
All documents submitted must be recent ones (less than 3 months old at
date of publication of this notice). If they fail to provide sufficient
information, or if documents are lacking, this may lead to the application
being rejected.
Legal position — documents required:
in accordance with Article 93 of the Financial Regulation applicable to
the general budget of the European Communities, candidates will be
disqualified from participating in the contract if they:
(a) are bankrupt or being wound up, if their affairs are being
administered by the court or if they have entered into an arrangement with
creditors, if they have suspended business activities, if they are the
subject of proceedings of this nature or if they are in any analogous
situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws or
regulations;
(b) have been convicted of an offence concerning their professional
conduct by a judgment which has the force of res judicata;
(c) have been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can justify;
(d) have not fulfilled their obligations to pay social-security
contributions or taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of their
country of residence or with those of the country of the contracting
authority, or those of the country where the contract is to be carried
out;
(e) have been the subject of a judgment which has the force of res
judicata for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organisation or
any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial
interests;
(f) are currently the subject of an administrative penalty (exclusion from
contracts financed from the budget of the European Communities for a
maximum period of 10 years):
— either because they have been guilty, during another contract procedure,
of misrepresentation in furnishing the information required by the
contracting authority in order to take part in the contract in question,
or have not furnished said information,
— or because they have been declared to be in serious breach of contract
following another contract procedure.
In addition, candidates will be excluded from contract award if, at the
time of the procurement procedure, they:
(g) are in a situation where interests conflict;
(h) are guilty of misrepresentation in furnishing the information required
by the contracting authority in order to take part in the contract, or
have not furnished said information.
Candidates may provide proof that none of these exclusion cases applies to
them by:
— either enclosing with their request to participate a solemn declaration,
duly signed and dated by a legal representative of the company, clearly
specifying that they are not in any of the situations mentioned in points
(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h). The form for this solemn
declaration can be found on the Council's web site
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu). In this case, the candidate to
whom the contract will be awarded must furnish the means of proof listed
hereafter in support of his solemn declaration at the end of the procedure
(within 10 working days of notification of contract award and before
contract signature),
— or furnishing, at the request to participate stage, documentary evidence
covering points (a), (b), (d) and (e) and a solemn declaration covering
points (c), (f), (g) and (h) (for the solemn declaration form see:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu). The Secretariat will accept, as
sufficient proof that candidates are not in any of the situations
specified in points (a), (b) or (e), an extract from the judicial record
or, failing this, an equivalent document issued by a judicial or
administrative body in their country of origin or provenance, showing that
these requirements have been met. The Secretariat will accept, as
sufficient proof that the tenderer is not in the situation specified in
point (d), a certificate issued by the appropriate body in the country
concerned. Should the document or certificate referred to above not be
issued in the country concerned, it may be replaced by a statement under
oath or, failing this, a solemn declaration made by the interested parties
before a judicial or administrative body, a notary or a qualified
professional body in their country of origin or provenance. In accordance
with national legislation in the country in which candidates reside, the
aforementioned documents apply to legal entities and/or natural persons
including, should the Secretariat deem this necessary, company directors
or any person with powers of representation, decision-making or control in
relation to the tenderers.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
candidates must enclose the following documents with their request to
participate, so that their minimum economic capacity can be assessed:
1. registration form for a Call duly signed and dated by a person
legitimately authorised to represent the company. To complete this form
candidates must register for this Call for tenders on Consilium Tendering,
the Council of the European Union tendering platform
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu). The procedure is as follows:
(a) if you are not yet registered as a user, click on 'Register' and key
in your particulars, user name and the password of your choice;
(b) click on 'Register for a call' in the 'Actions' menu on the right-hand
side of the screen;
(c) select the Call (UCA 055/08);
(d) complete the registration form for a Call by keying in details of the
company you represent;
(e) submit the form and print it;
2. certificate of enrolment on the professional or trade register or a
statement under oath or a certificate in accordance with conditions laid
down in the Member State in which they reside;
3. bank certificate stating the company's financial situation;
4. copy of the balance sheets and operating accounts, or other supporting
documents, for the past 3 years;
5. statement as to overall turnover and turnover for the supplies and
services referred to in the contract, realised over the past 3 financial
years.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating whether requirements have been met:
candidates must enclose the following documents with their request to
participate, so that their minimum technical capacity can be assessed:
1. documents attesting to their professional standing and technical
capacity and to at least 3 years' professional experience of the type of
goods and services required;
2. detailed list of the main supplies and/or services of an equivalent
nature to that required, carried out in the past 3 years, together with
details of the values, dates and names and particulars of the public or
private recipients involved;
3. a statement as to candidates' human and technical resources. For the
key members of staff that will be involved in the work, candidates are
requested to submit CVs in the 'Europass CV' format, which may be
downloaded from 'Consilium Tendering', the Council of the European Union
tendering platform (https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu);
4. 2 examples of previous works similar to this contract carried out by
candidates. Candidates should enclose a table of contents with their
request to participate, listing the documents supplied with their
application.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
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:
UCA 055/08.
IV.3.2) Previous notice(s) published concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Final date for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
18.7.2008.
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 or
Swedish.
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.3) Additional information: Whilst working on the contracting
authority's premises, the contractor (both own personnel and
subcontractors) may come into contact with classified EU information. As a
result, the contracting authority reserves the right to request that the
contractor furnish proof of security clearance from his national security
body. In addition, some staff may be requested to furnish comparable
personal security clearance. Details will be given in the specifications.
The attention of interested parties is drawn to the aim of this notice,
i.e. to select candidates who will receive the specifications and be
invited to tender. They are therefore requested to submit the information
listed in point III.2. There is no charge for taking part in this contract
procedure. The specifications will be available free of charge to those
candidates invited to tender. Likewise, the act of tendering does not give
tenderers the right either to be awarded the contract or to receive any
compensation for costs incurred. The contracting authority is under no
obligation to award a contract subsequent to this notice. Requests to
participate must be sent in writing to the address in point I.1, quoting
reference 'UCA 055/08'. Faxed or e-mailed requests to participate must be
confirmed by a letter sent before the deadline given in point IV.3.4. Any
additional information will be available online at Consilium Tendering,
the Council of the European Union tendering platform
(https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu). Candidates are invited to submit
any questions regarding this invitation to tender via said platform. In
order to be able to submit questions and access the answers, candidates
must first register as users on Consilium Tendering. Candidates will be
notified of the outcome of their request to participate via said platform.
The specifications will also be available online to those candidates
selected (restricted invitation to tender procedure). In order to access
this information online, candidates registered as users must also register
for this invitation to tender on the Consilium Tendering platform (see
point III.2.2.1). Registration for the call is considered as part of the
request to participate. Further information on registering as a user and
for a call, as well as the detailed instructions, can be obtained from:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
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. E-mail:
ECJ.Registry@circa.europa.eu. URL: http://curia.europa.eu.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
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. E-mail:
euro-ombudsman@europarl.europa.eu. URL:
http://www.euro-ombudsman.europa.eu.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: within 2 months of notice being given to the plaintiff
or, should no notice be given, within 2 months of the date on which the
matter in question became known. A complaint made to the European
Ombudsman neither suspends this period nor opens a new period during which
appeals can be lodged.
VI.4.3) Body from which information about the lodging of appeals may be
obtained: Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, rue de la
Loi 175, B-1048 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62. Fax (32-2) 281
80 93. E-mail: tendering@consilium.europa.eu. URL:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 11.6.2008.

Update: Jul 1, 2008

Notice Type: CONS
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Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 125/2008
, #
165926-2008
Referenced Document Number: 158983-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Notice of corrigendum
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 120 of
21.6.2008, restricted procedure, 158983-2008)
Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, attn: Procurement
Coordination Unit, Office 1070 KL 77, rue de la Loi 175, B-1048
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 281 80 62. Fax (32-2) 281 80 93. E-mail:
tendering@consilium.europa.eu.
for: I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s):
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Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://www.tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
...
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
...
URL: https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu/callstend/.
read: I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s):
...
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.
...
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
...
URL: https://tendering.consilium.europa.eu.

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