B-Brussels: preparatory actions for European Marine Observation and Data Network

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:165113-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 28, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 6, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

English

Address:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium

Email:

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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: 124/2008
, #
165113-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial 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,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Directorate C —
Atlantic, Outermost Regions and Arctic, attn: Mr R. Priebe, Director
MARE-C, Office: J-99, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. E-mail:
mare-tenders@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries.
Further information can be obtained at:
as in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
as in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and
Fisheries, Unit F/1, Office J-99, 5/07, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, quoting
Ref.: MARE/2008/03.
I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
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:
Preparatory actions for European Marine Observation and Data Network.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 7.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The European
Commission, represented for the purposes of this call for tenders by the
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), wishes
to conclude service contracts for creating pilot components of the
European Marine Observation and Data Network.
The overall objectives of the project are to assemble fragmented and
inaccessible marine data into interoperable, contiguous and publicly
available data streams for complete maritime basins. This will help to
define the appropriate processes, best technology and approximate costs of
a final operational European Marine Observation and Data Network as well
as provide first components of a final system which will, in themselves,
be useful to the marine science community and to commercial concerns who
will use the data to provide value-added services.
The contract comprises 4 lots:
— hydrographic data,
— marine geological data,
— chemical data,
— biological data.
The contract will have 2 components, development (duration: 24 months) and
maintenance (duration: 12 months).
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72300000, 72315000,
72321000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders should be submitted for: 1 or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Maximum value: EUR 3 450 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Duration in
months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
Information about lots
Lot No 1
Title: Hydrographic data
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72300000, 72315000, 72321000.
3) Quantity or scope: Maximum amount: EUR 975 000.
Lot No 2
Title: Marine geological data
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72300000, 72315000, 72321000.
3) Quantity or scope: Maximum amount: EUR 925 000.
Lot No 3
Title: Chemical data
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72300000, 72315000, 72321000.
3) Quantity or scope: Maximum amount: EUR 700 000.
Lot No 4
Title: Biological data
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72300000, 72315000, 72321000.
3) Quantity or scope: Maximum amount: EUR 850 000.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: See point 1.2 of the tendering
specifications and Article I.4 of the draft contract in Annex 1 to the
tendering specifications.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See point 1.2 of the
tendering specifications and Article I.4 of the draft contract in Annex 1
to the tendering specifications.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See point 3.3 of the tendering
specifications.
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:
see points 4.1 and 4.2 of the tendering specifications.
Tenderers must:
— fill in an identification questionnaire, a legal entity form and a
financial identification form,
— state that they are not in any of the situations that would exclude them
from participation in the procurement procedure and/or award of the
contract,
— provide a declaration that there are no conflicts of interests.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: see point 4.3.1 of the
tendering specifications.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: see point 4.3.2 of the tendering
specifications.
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:
MARE/2008/03.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
6.10.2008.
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): 9 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 14.10.2008 (15:00).
Place: Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Rue Joseph
II 99, B-1040 Bruxelles/Brussel.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Tenderers or their authorised representatives are allowed to attend the
opening. These persons will have to sign an attendance list. A passport or
identity card will be required as proof of identity.
For practical reasons, tenderers are requested to inform DG MARE by e-mail
(see point I.1) of their wish to attend the opening no later than 1 week
beforehand.
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: Yes.
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): Maritime Policy — Preparatory
Actions.
VI.3) Additional information: Tender documents will be made available
within 6 calendar days of the publication of the contract notice on
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries' web site at the
following address: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/tenders_proposals_en.htm.
Tenderers can download the tender documents and eventually any additional
documents and information from this web site. The site will be updated
regularly and it is the tenderers' responsibility to check for updates and
modifications during the tendering period.
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 03-2100. E-mail:
CFI.Registry@curia.europa.eu. URL: http://curia.europa.eu.
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: eo@ombudsman.europa.eu. URL: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu.
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 absence
thereof, of the day on which it came to 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: 16.6.2008.

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