E-Seville: social welfare and legal assistance services

Country:

Spain

City/Locality:

SEBILI

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:170671-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 5, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 18, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

Spanish

Address:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SEVILLE
Spain

Email:

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98300000 - Miscellaneous services

Notice Type: C398
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 129/2008
, #
170671-2008
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, DG
JRC-IPTS, attn: Ms Mercè Batet-Alcon, Edificio Expo, c/ Inca Garcilaso,
s/n, E-41092 Sevilla. Contact name: Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies (IPTS). Tel. (34-95) 448 83 91. Fax (34-95) 448 83
00. E-mail: JRC-IPTS-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu.
Internet addresses:
General address of the contracting authority:
http://www.web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender/.
Address of the buyer profile: http://ipts.jrc.ec.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:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
I.2) Type of contracting authority and main activity or activities:
Decentralised European institution/agency or international organisation.
General public services.
Other: 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:
Social welfare and legal assistance services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or
performance: Services.
Service category No 25.
Main place of performance: premises of the Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies (IPTS).
NUTS code: ES618.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The IPTS is an
institute of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and is
located at Edificio EXPO, C/ Inca Garcilaso s/n, Sevilla. Its staff are
mainly from European Union countries, but also from other countries. There
are approximately 200 staff members at the IPTS, who require a social
welfare service and a legal and social information service to help them
adapt to local daily life in Seville and deal with administrative issues
relating thereto. The service will cover 2 fields:
(A) social welfare — on site: the 'on-site social welfare' service will be
provided by an assistant (m/f) on IPTS premises 4 hours per day.
(B) Social and legal information service: the service provider(s) must be
available for a maximum of 4 hours on the second working day of each month
and 4 hours on the second working day following the 15th of each month, in
the mornings, on IPTS premises. The IPTS will provide an office with
telephone and computer. During this time, the service provider will deal
with queries from staff. A maximum of 10 additional hours per month may be
authorised for management of urgent individual queries.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 93000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
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: Envisaged annual number of hours: 900
for field A and 180 for field B.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 60 (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: As specified in tender
documents.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: As specified in
tender documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Participation in the tendering
procedure is open to service provider companies and consortia. A
'consortium' is taken to mean a grouping of service providers, and does
not mean that such a legal form must be adopted in order to submit a
tender. Should a consortium be awarded the contract, they may have to form
an EEIG (European Economic Interest Grouping), in accordance with Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85, or other type of legal entity in order to
sign the contract with the Commission. Consortia of service providers must
nominate a coordinator to submit the tender and act as contact person
vis-à-vis the contracting authority.
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:
in order to be eligible for participation, tenderers must not be in any of
the exclusion situations listed in Articles 93 and 94 of Council
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25.6.2002 (OJ L 248 of
16.9.2002), as amended by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 of
13.12.2006 (OJ L 390 of 30.12.2006) and Council Regulation (EC, Euratom)
No 1525/2007 of 17.12.2007 (OJ L 343 of 27.12.2007). Candidates must also
provide the documents stipulated in Article 134(1) of Commission
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 of 23.12.2002 (OJ L 357 of
31.12.2002), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No
1261/2005 of 20.7.2005 (OJ L 201 of 2.8.2005), Commission Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 1248/2006 of 7.8.2006 (OJ L 227 of 19.8.2006) and Commission
Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 478/2007 of 23.4.2007 (OJ L 111 of 28.4.2007)
(see tender documents). In the case of contract award, the contractor will
have to provide the supporting documents requested in Article 134(3) of
the aforementioned Regulation.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
(a) statement as to overall turnover, profit and loss accounts and balance
sheets (or a copy of the budget in the case of non-profit-making
organisations), for the past 3 years, showing the proportion of the
overall turnover (or budget or invoices) corresponding to provision of
services similar to those in this contract.
(b) Names of any subcontractors, where applicable, to which service
providers intend subcontracting some of the tasks. Tenderers should
specify which tasks will be subcontracted so that their autonomy can be
assessed. Should service providers not require the services of any
subcontractors, they must submit a statement to this effect.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating whether requirements have been met: list of available human
resources who will carry out the tasks in the contract, including their
academic and professional qualifications and CVs.
Minimum level(s) of standards that may be required: the person responsible
for providing the services must have at least 3 years' experience in the
relevant field: (a) for the on-site social welfare service field, at least
1 of the following qualifications is required:
— diploma in social work (university degree),
— diploma in business studies (university degree),
— diploma in industrial relations (university degree),
— diploma in administration and finance (professional qualification),
or similar, and advanced knowledge of English (level C1 of the Common
European Framework of Reference);
(b) for the social and legal information field, the following are
required:
— for the legal consultancy field: law degree and good knowledge of
English (level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference),
— for the social consultancy field: the same qualifications as in (a) and
good knowledge of English (level B1 of the Common European Framework of
Reference).
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) Conditions specific to service contracts
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved for a particular
profession: No.
III.3.2) Legal persons 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: Economically most advantageous tender, taking
into account the following criteria:
1. hourly rate for the work; weighting: 50;
2. description of the focus of the work; weighting: 30;
3. composition and degree of participation of the team; weighting: 20.
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:
J01/14/2008.
IV.3.2) Previous notices published concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Final date for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 6.8.2008.
Payment for documents: no.
IV.3.4) Final date for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
18.8.2008 (13:00).
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.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain his
tender: Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tenders).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 20.8.2008 (12:00).
Location: IPTS premises.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
The Commission, as contracting authority, and 1 duly authorised
representative per tenderer, having stated their intention to participate
and provided name, position and personal ID number.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: Yes.
Estimated interval between publication of future notices: every 5 years.
VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU
funds: No.
VI.3) Additional information: The tender documentation can be downloaded
from the following web site: http://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender/.
Any additional information, questions and responses, etc., relating to
this invitation to tender will be published on this web site. Parties
interested in submitting a tender should consult said web site regularly
during the tender procedure in order to obtain any updated information.
Tenderers are requested to state their intention to submit a tender by
sending an e-mail to the address in point I.1.
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.europa.eu. Internet address (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. Internet address (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 date on which the plaintiff is
notified or, failing this, of the date on which it became known to them. A
complaint made to the European Ombudsman neither suspends this period nor
opens a new period for lodging appeals.
VI.4.3) Body 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.europa.eu. Internet address (URL):
http://curia.europa.eu.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 25.6.2008.

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