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B-Brussels: study on State control of strategic defence assets

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General Information
Country:   Belgium
City/Locality:   BRUSSELS
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:79973-2009
Publication Date:   Mar 21, 2009
Deadline:   Apr 30, 2009
Buyer:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium
Email:   Click here

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: C398 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 56/2009, #79973-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission,
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry — Aerospace Industries,
GMES, Security and Defence, attention: Directorate H1 — Defence, Aerospace
and Maritime Industries, avenue d'Auderghem/Oudergemselaan 45 (BREY 9/34),
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIUM. Contact: Directorate H — Aerospace
Industries, GMES, Security and Defence. Tel. +32 22953217. Fax +32
22967014. E-mail: Entr-def-coa@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 abovementioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in abovementioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry —
Aerospace Industries, GMES, Security and Defence, attention: Directorate
H1 — Defence, Aerospace and Maritime Industries, avenue
d'Auderghem/Oudergemselaan 45 (BREY 9/034), 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel,
BELGIUM. Contact: Directorate H — Aerospace Industries, GMES, Security and
Defence.
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 State control of strategic defence assets.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 27.
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 existence
of different policies and measures in EU Member States providing for
government intervention in inward foreign investments in the defence
sector could act as a potential barrier to the much needed consolidation
of this industrial sector.
In view of the above, the Commission has undertaken to launch a study
'defining how control of assets might be undertaken in the future to
ensure competitive supply at the European level', and which takes into
consideration 'the range of options available to Europe to sustain its
essential defence and security interests'.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 75000000.
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: For a maximum of EUR 250 000.
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: Not applicable.
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/09/019.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
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: 21.4.2009.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
30.4.2009.
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: Date: 14.5.2009 (14:30).
Place: Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIUM.
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 least 48 hours in advance to the address given
under 1.6. of the tender specifications.
This notification must be signed by an 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): Entrepreneurship and
innovation work programme for 2009 — Council Decision No 1639/2006/EC
INT/CIP/09/F/SO1C16 (3229/H1.CIP.2111).
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, 2925 Luxembourg,
LUXEMBOURG. Tel. +352 4303-1. Fax +352 433766. E-mail:
ECJ.registry@curia.eu.int Internet: http://curia.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: 11.3.2009.
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