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I-Ispra: supply and maintenance of a cell production facility to produce reliably assay-ready cells for downstream toxicological applications

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General Information
Country:   Italy
City/Locality:   ISPRA
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:313743-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 12, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 15, 2009
Buyer:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
ISPRA
Italy
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Notice Type: C298 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 218/2009, #313743-2009
Referenced Document Number: 215798-2009
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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Contract notice
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission, Joint
Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, MSU T.P.
582, attention: Ms Giuliana Talamona, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra VA,
ITALY. Fax +39 0332789434. E-mail: JRC-IHCP-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu
Internet address:
General address of the contracting authority:
http://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender/
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:
As in abovementioned contact point(s).
I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
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:
Supply and maintenance of a cell production facility to produce reliably
assay-ready cells for downstream toxicological applications.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: Ispra VA site, ITALY.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Supply and
maintenance of a fully automated solution for cell culture work, ensuring
cell-line maintenance, expansion, harvesting and plating, to be installed
in the IHCP 'in vitro' method unit as this unit has the largest experience
in this field and in particular with human cell lines. The automated cell
production will be supported by already existing cell culturing
facilities.
Would you please note that this is a re-publication of the call for tender
referring to the contract notice OJ 2009/S 148-215798 of 5.8.2009.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000, 39181000,
50000000.
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 contract is divided into 2 stages:
stage 1: supply, delivery, installation, testing of the equipment, on-site
training and provision of documentation within 6 months from the signature
of the contract plus 24 months of warranty as detailed specified in the
tender documents;
stage 2: stage 1 may be followed by a maintenance service of an initial
duration of 12 months, renewable up to 2 times, each time for a period of
12 months. The description of the maintenance service is specified in the
tender documents.
The coming into force of stage 2 depends on the conditions specified in
Article I.2 of the contract.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 750 000 EUR.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 66 (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 group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Tenders may be submitted by groups of
economic operators that, if awarded the contract, may be requested to
assume a legal form by incorporation, partnership or otherwise which will
enable them to contract as a single entity. A group of economic operators,
however, must identify the main contractor, the sole responsible towards
the Commission, which will interface between the Commission and the
economic operators. Each member of the group must fulfil the conditions
for participation mentioned in point III.2 of this publication.
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 will not be eligible to take part in this contract award
procedure if they are 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 Commission Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 1995/2006 of 13.12.2006 (OJ L 390 of 30.12.2006).
The tenderer to whom the contract is to be awarded must also furnish the
documents stipulated in Article 134(1)(3) 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), by Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1248/2006 of
7.8.2006 (OJ L 227 of 19.8.2006) and by Commission Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 478/2007 of 23.4.2007 (OJ L 111 of 28.4.2007).
Any tenderer or candidate shall prove that he is authorised to perform the
contract under national law, as evidenced by inclusion in a trade or
professional register, or a sworn declaration or certificate, membership
of a specific organisation, express authorisation, or entry in the VAT
register.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
(a) a statement of overall turnover and turnover concerning the supplies
and services covered by the contract during the last 3 financial years;
(b) the 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.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
(a) a list of principal similar supplies delivered and services provided
in the past 3 years, with the sums, dates, recipients public or private;
(b) a statement from the tenderer concerning his quality assurance system
(ISO or equivalent).
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
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:
IHCP/2009/I/03/49/OC - REP.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Other
previous publications:
notice number in OJ: OJ 2009/S 148-215798 of 5.8.2009.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
15.12.2009.
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 months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tenders).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 16.12.2009 (10:00).
Place: JRC Ispra, External Building, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra VA,
ITALY.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Please, provide to JRC-IHCP-PROCUREMENT@ec.europa.eu the name of people
attending the opening session, within and not later than 15.12.2009.
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 tender documentation has to be
downloaded from the following web site:
http://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender
Please be informed that an 'Answers-question.doc' will be regularly
updated during the procedure. It is the responsibility of the candidates
to check regularly updates and modifications during the tendering period.
Would you please note that this is a re-publication of the call for tender
referring to the contract notice OJ 2009/S 148-215798 of 5.8.2009.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, rue du Fort Niedergrünewald, 2625 Luxembourg,
LUXEMBOURG. Tel. +352 4303-1. Fax +352 4303-2100. E-mail:
CFI.Registry@curia.europa.eu Internet: http://curia.europa.eu
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals:
within 2 months of the notification to plaintiff, or in absence thereof,
of the day on which it came to knowledge.
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: Court of First Instance of the European Communities, rue du
Fort Niedergrünewald, 2625 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG. Tel. +352 4303-1. Fax
+352 4303-2100. E-mail: CFI.Registry@curia.europa.eu Internet:
http://curia.europa.eu
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 29.10.2009.
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