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B-Brussels: study on methodologies or adapted technological tools to efficiently detect violent radical content on the Internet

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General Information
Country:   Belgium
City/Locality:   BRUSSELS
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:67533-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 19, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 4, 2009
Buyer:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium
Web Site:   http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/index_en.htm

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Notice Type: C398 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 47/2009, #67533-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Nov 19, 2009


Notice Type: C398 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 223/2009, #319945-2009
Referenced Document Number: 67533-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Original Text

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Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission,
Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security, Unit F4: Financial
support — security, attention: Mr Patrick Trousson, Office LX-46 6/020,
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 298 80 58. Fax (32-2) 299 82 15.
E-mail: patrick.trousson@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/tenders/funding_calls_en.htm.
Further information can be obtained at:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and
Security, Unit F4: Financial support, attention: Ms Vendulka Mulacova,
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 298 80 58. Fax (32-2) 299 82 15.
E-mail: vendulka.mulacova@ec.europa.eu. URL:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/tenders/funding_calls_en.htm.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and
Security, Unit F4: Financial support, attention: Ms Vendulka Mulacova,
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 298 80 58. Fax (32-2) 299 82 15.
E-mail: vendulka.mulacova@ec.europa.eu. URL:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/tenders/funding_calls_en.htm.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
As in abovementioned 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:
Study on methodologies or adapted technological tools to efficiently
detect violent radical content on the Internet.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 11.
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): The aim of the
study is to provide the necessary expertise to support the Commission
policy making in the field. It should serve as a basis for the promotion,
support, or help to develop methodologies or adapted technological tools
to efficiently detect propaganda aiming at mobilisation and recruitment
for terrorism as well as instructions and manuals intended for training or
planning of terrorist attacks (hereinafter 'violent radical content') on
the Internet as well to identify those who spread this content.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73220000.
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: EUR 200 000.
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.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: See specifications.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: 30 % interim payment
and payment of the balance.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See 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:
tenderers must indicate in which state they have their headquarters or
domicile. In addition, they must present the supporting evidence which is
normally acceptable under their own law to demonstrate their registration
at this address. Supporting evidence is not necessary for subcontractors.
Tenderers are requested to complete the form applicable to their legal
entity and provide all required documents. All tenders must be submitted
by a clearly identified tenderer with a legal existence. Tenders from
consortia are possible, but if the consortium does not have a legal
existence, the leader of the consortium must be clearly identified and
will be regarded as the tenderer. If the tenderer is awarded the contract,
the contracting authority will sign a contract with them, and only with
them. The other members of the consortium will be regarded as
subcontractors for the purposes of the tender and the contract.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
the tenderer must demonstrate sufficient economic and financial resources
to be able to execute the tasks within the time schedule specified in the
terms of reference and according to the payment schedule specified in the
draft contract. Where the tenderer wishes to subcontract or otherwise rely
on the capacities of other entities, it must in that case prove that it
will have at its disposal the resources necessary for performance of the
contract, for example by producing an undertaking on the part of those
entities to place those resources at its disposal.
The following additional documents must also be provided in evidence of
economic and financial capacity:
— the presentation of balance sheets or extracts from balance sheets for
at least the last 2 years for which accounts have been closed, where
publication of the balance sheet is required under the company law of the
country in which the economic operator is established,
— a statement of overall turnover and turnover concerning the services
covered by the contract during a period which may be no more than the last
3 financial years,
— a copy of profit and loss account for the last year (closed accounts
year),
— completed 'Simplified balance sheet' and 'Simplified profit and loss
account', filled in for 3 years and duly signed.
All the documents referred to above must also be provided for all
subcontractors undertaking more than 20 % of the work by value.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
tenderers and other applicants, including subcontractors if any, must:
— have previous experience in studies and insight in the detection of
online illegal content in the last 5 years,
— have professional experience and research competence (including
necessary language/s proficiency to conduct research covering all 27
Member States) in the fields covered by the study.
They must provide evidence of the relevant experience and knowledge of the
proposed team members in the areas of the study. Tenderers must also
demonstrate the capability to manage the study and provide evidence of
access to relevant information in the areas of concern.
The contracting authority shall accept the following as evidence of
compliance with the above criteria:
— the educational and professional qualifications of the tenderer and the
involved staff,
— a list of relevant activities and services provided in the past 3 years,
with the sums, dates and recipients, public or private,
— a statement of the average annual manpower and the number of managerial
staff of the service provider or contractor in the last 3 years,
— the tenderer must have confidentiality and security clearances and must
be in possession of a facilities security clearance issued by the relevant
national security authority.
The contractor will have to conform to the rules of access to classified
information drawn up in the Member States and to make sure that its
personnel holds the appropriate access rights and all persons involved in
the study shall be in possession of an official accreditation to handle
documents classified up to UE Secret level ('EU Secret') (or the national
equivalent) granted by an EU Member State and valid for the duration of
the contract. Any proposal will have to contain a statement on the honour
of the applicant that the above condition is fulfilled. The Commission
will confirm the validity of individual security clearances of relevant
staff prior to the signing of a contract.
As evidence, tenderers are required to send a copy of their facility
security clearance with their bid.
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:
JLS/2008/F1/007.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
20.4.2009 (15:00).
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 and
Swedish.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 29.4.2009.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
A representative of each tenderer may attend the opening of bids.
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):
Prevention and fight against crime programme, 2008 annual work programme.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 26.2.2009.


Cancellation
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 10.3.2009,
2009/S 47-067533)
European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and
Security, attention: Mr Frederic Knechciak, rue du Luxembourg 46, 1049
Brussels, BELGIUM. Tel. +32 22988058. Fax +32 22998215. E-mail:
Frederic.knechciak@ec.europa.eu JLS-F4-procurement@ec.europa.eu Internet
address: http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/index_en.htm
Note:
Following the call for tender (open procedure) No JLS/2008/ISEC/PR/007-F1
(JLS/2008/F1/007), published in the Official Journal No S 47 of 10.3.2009,
the awarding authority announces that the procurement procedure has been
cancelled for the following reasons: none of the tenderers satisfied the
selection criteria.
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