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B-Brussels: study on industrial implications in Europe of the blurring of dividing lines between security and defence

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General Information
Country:   Belgium
City/Locality:   BRYJELLES
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:191007-2008
Publication Date:   Jul 25, 2008
Deadline:   Aug 29, 2008
Buyer:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium
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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: 143/2008
, #
191007-2008
Referenced Document Number: 51602-2008
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,
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, Directorate H —
Aerospace, GMES, Security and Defence, Directorate H1 — Defence, Aerospace
and Maritime Industries, Avenue d'Auderghem 45 (BREY 9/34), B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 295 13 04. Fax (32-2) 296 70 14. E-mail:
Entr-def-security@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/dgs/index_en.htm.
Address of the buyer profile: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/calls/
calls.html.
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 Enterprise and Industry,
Directorate H — Aerospace, GMES, Security and Defence, Directorate H1 —
Defence, Aerospace and Maritime Industries, Avenue d'Auderghem 45 (BREY
9/034), B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel.
I.2) Type of the 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:
Study on industrial implications in Europe of the blurring of dividing
lines between security and defence.
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: contractor's premises.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): This study will
look at the industrial consequences of the growing emphasis on security in
the EU and the blurring of dividing lines between security and defence.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 75000000.
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: For a maximum of EUR 210 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Duration in
months: 12 (from the award of the contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See tender
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 tender
specifications point 2.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: see tender
specifications point 2.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: see tender specifications point 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:
ENTR/08/023.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice:
Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 38-51602 of 23.2.2008.
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: 22.8.2008.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
29.8.2008.
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): 8 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 10.9.2008 (14:30).
Place: B-Bruxelles/Brussel.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
An authorised representative of each tenderer may attend the opening of
the bids. Companies wishing to attend are requested to notify their
intention by sending a fax or e-mail at the latest 48 hours in advance to
the address given under 1.6 of the tender specification. This notification
must be signed by authorised officer of the tenderer and specify the name
of the person who will attend the opening of the bids on the tenderer's
behalf.
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): Council Decision 1639/2006/EC
(CIP/08/F/S1C08).
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, 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 notification to the plaintiff, or, in absence
thereof, of the day on which it came to the 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: 14.7.2008.
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