I-Ispra: maintenance contract for a liquid chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometer

Country:

Italy

City/Locality:

ISPRA

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:160490-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 25, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 3, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

English

Address:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
ISPRA
Italy

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Notice Type: C398
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 121/2008
, #
160490-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Lowest price

Summary:
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission, Joint
Research Centre JRC DG, Institute for Environment and Sustainability,
attn: Mr M. Cecchini, Via Enrico Fermi, 2749 TP 263, I-21027 Ispra (VA).
Fax (39) 03 32 78 95 40. E-mail: JRC-IES-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu.
Further information can be obtained at:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for
Environment and Sustainability, attn: Ms Ana Gallego, Via Enrico Fermi,
2749 TP 263, I-21027 Ispra (VA). Fax (39) 03 32 78 95 40. E-mail:
JRC-IES-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu. URL:
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for
Environment and Sustainability, attn: Ms Ana Gallego, Via Enrico Fermi,
2749 TP 263, I-21027 Ispra (VA). Fax (39) 03 32 78 95 40. E-mail:
JRC-IES-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu. URL:
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for
Environment and Sustainability, attn: Ms Ana Gallego, Via Enrico Fermi,
2749 TP 263, I-21020 Ispra (VA).
I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
General public services; research.
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:
Maintenance contract for a liquid chromatography triple quadrupole mass
spectrometer.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category No 1.
Main place of performance:
I-Ispra.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Institute
for Environment and Sustainability laboratory is working in the field of
ultra trace analysis of organic pollutants in water samples and performs
analysis of polar water-soluble organic contaminants by means of a liquid
chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometer LC-MS2.
The highest sensitivity of the LC-MS2 instrument in the MRM mode is
essential for the analysis of contaminants such as polar pesticides,
pharmaceuticals, phenols, sulfonates and carboxylates. The system is
equipped with a binary pump, vacuum degasser, autosampler and a
thermostated column compartment, and the mass spectrometer with an
electrospray ionization source. Also a nitrogen generator makes part of
the whole system. The system is 4 years old.
This LC-MS2 system requires a contract for maintenance that guarantees the
continuous proper functioning of the instrument, which is the object of
the present call.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 50500000.
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 total price for the maintenance is
estimated to EUR 60 000–EUR 70 000 all inclusive for a total period of 4
years.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
range: between EUR 60 000 and EUR 70 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Duration in
months: 48 (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: Not applicable.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See tender
documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Tenders can be submitted by groupings
of service providers who will not be required to adopt a particular legal
form prior to the contract being awarded. However, a grouping of firms
must nominate 1 party to be responsible for the receipt and processing of
payments for members of the grouping, for managing the service
administration, and for coordination and safety.
In the case of groupings of contractors, the documents required and listed
in the following point III.2 must be supplied by every member of the
grouping. Should they be awarded the contract, they must form a
consortium, or an association or adopt some other form which would allow
them to act as a legal entity.
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:
To be eligible for participation in this contract award procedure,
tenderers must not be in any of exclusion situations referred to in
Articles 93 and 94 of the Council Regulation No 1605/2002 of 25.6.2002 OJ
L 248 of 16.9.2002, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No
1995/2006 of 13.12.2006 (OJ L 390/1 of 30.12.2006) and shall submit the
documents mentioned in Article 134(1) of the Commission Regulation
2342/2002 of 23.12.2002 of OJ L 357/1, modified by Commission Regulation
1261/2005 of 20.7.2005 and of OJ L 201/3 of 2.8.2005 and further modified
by Commission Regulation 1248/2006 of 7.8.2006 (OJ L 227 of 19.8.2006) and
by Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 478/2007 of 23.4.2007 (OJ L 111
of 28.4.2007) (see tender documents).
Should a contract be awarded, the contractor will need to produce the
supporting documents required in Article 134(3) of the same Regulation.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
a) a statement of overall turnover and turnover concerning the services
covered by the contract during the past 3 financial years.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
a) proof that tenderers are authorised to perform the contract under
national law, as evidenced by inclusion in a trade or professional
register, or a sworn declaration or certificate, membership of a specific
organisation, express authorisation, or entry in the VAT register;
b) a list of the principal similar services (repairing/maintaining triple
quadrupole LC-MS systems) provided in the past 3 years with the sums,
dates and recipients, public or private.
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:
No.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria: Lowest price.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Time limit for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 3.9.2008.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
3.9.2008.
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, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 9 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 10.9.2008 (10:00).
Place: Room 7, first floor, reception building, JRC Ispra.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
JRC in-house opening committee and 1 representative per tenderer.
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: According to article 126 1 f) of the
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2342/2002 and following modifications, the
Commission reserves the right to start negotiated procedures with the
economic operator of the present call for tender for services similar to
the ones of this call.
The tender documents and any additional information are available on a
dedicated section of the contracting authority's web site:
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender.
The tender documents will be provided free of charge.
In exceptional circumstances contacts may be on the tenderers initiative
not later than 5 working days before the final date for receipt of bids,
in order (and only for this reason) to clarify the nature of the contract
(see letter of invitation). Insofar as it has been requested in good time
and in accordance with tender documents, the additional information will
be made available simultaneously to tenderers on the dedicated section of
the contracting authority's web site:
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender.
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@curia.eu.int.
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.
E-mail: euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int. 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 plaintiff being notified or, failing this, of the
day on which it came to his knowledge. A complaint to the European
Ombudsman will neither suspend this period nor cause a new period for
lodging of appeals to begin.
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: 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@curia.eu.int. URL:
http://curia.eu.int.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 13.6.2008.

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