B-Brussels: evaluation of implementation of the farm advisory system

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:201459-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 5, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 27, 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: 150/2008
, #
201459-2008
Referenced Document Number: 38220-2008
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, attn: Mr
Leo Maier, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 130 Office: L-130 8/29, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 299 81 95. Fax (32-2) 296 42 67. E-mail:
agri-evaluation@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eval/index_en.htm.
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:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
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:
Evaluation of implementation of the farm advisory system.
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 work will be at the contractor's
premises.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): 'Ex post'
evaluation analysing the effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of the
implementation of the farm advisory system.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
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 contractor is expected to start the
work immediately after the contract has been signed. The deadlines have to
be strictly respected. An intensive work input is required by the team
over the whole duration of the contract.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between EUR 320 000 and EUR 400 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 10 (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: See tender specification,
Section 6.3.4.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Payment of 20 % of
the total amount of the contract following approval by the Commission of
the first deliverable. Payment of 40 % of the total amount of the contract
following approval by the Commission of the second deliverable. Payment of
40 % of the total amount of the contract following approval by the
Commission of the final deliverable.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See tender specifications, Sections
7.3 and 7.4.
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 tender specifications, Section 8.2.1.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
See tender specifications, Section 8.2.3.1.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
See tender specifications, Section 8.2.3.2.
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:
AGRI-2008-EVAL-06.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice:
Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 29-38220 of 12.2.2008.
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: 15.10.2008.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
27.10.2008.
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
tenders).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 3.11.2008 (9:30).
Place: Agriculture and Rural Development DG, Rue de la Loi 130, Office
8/29, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
1 representative of each tenderer, duly mandated, is allowed to attend the
opening (proof of identity must be given by presentation of a passport or
identity card). If tenderers wish to be present, they shall inform the
Evaluation Unit L.4 of Agriculture and Rural Development DG by fax no
later than 1 week before the opening date, to the fax number indicated in
point I.1.
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: The invitation to tender documents will be
available on Agriculture and Rural Development DG's 'Europa' website:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/tender_en.htm.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of the 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. URL: http://www.curia.europa.eu/.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
The European Ombudsman, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, B.P. 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.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.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: Court of the 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. URL:
http://www.curia.europa.eu/.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 24.7.2008.

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