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B-Brussels: the climate change mitigation potential of an EU farm: towards a farm-based integrated assessment

Contract Award

General Information
Country:   Belgium
City/Locality:   BRUSSELS
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:322091-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 21, 2009
Buyer:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, ENV.3 - FINANCE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, ENV.3 - FINANCE
BRUSSELS
Belgium
Web Site:   http://ec.europa.eu/environment/funding/calls_en.htm

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Notice Type: C398 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 225/2009, #322091-2009
Referenced Document Number: 178553-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Contract awards
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, UK-Hartfield,
Hertfordshire AL10 9AB.

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): European Commission,
Directorate-General for the Environment, ENV.3 — Finance, BU-5 00/122,
Contact: Markets Team, B-1049 Brussels. Tel. +32 22960008. E-mail:
env-tenders@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/funding/calls_en.htm.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
Environment.
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:
The climate change mitigation potential of an EU farm: towards a
farm-based integrated assessment.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 12.
Main place of performance: 'extra muros'.
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The purpose of
this study is to help prepare the concepts and tools for, and a tentative
model on, farm climate change mitigation actions (including carbon
sequestration), so as to enable farmers to take actions at farm level to
reduce their emissions, and to enable policy makers to better design
policies to achieve the same objective. The aim is to better understand
the GHG profile of common farm practices in the EU, how changes to these
practices can improve the GHG profile, propose a tentative model for a
whole-farm assessment of GHG profile, and to understand the potential
synergies between different practices as well as the potential
environmental disadvantages such as damage to biodiversity, water, soil,
or landscape, etc.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90700000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.2) TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s): Value: 142 868 EUR.
Excluding VAT.
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
1. Understanding. Weighting: 40.
2. Methodology. Weighting: 40.
3. Project management and availability. Weighting: 20.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction was used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the Contracting Authority:
ENV.B.1/ETU/2009/0052.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice
Notice number in OJ: 2009/S 35-050290 of 20.2.2009
Contract notice
Notice number in OJ: 2009/S 123-178553 of 1.7.2009.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
CONTRACT NO: 1
TITLE: The climate change mitigation potential of an EU farm: towards a
farm-based integrated assessment
V.1) DATE OF CONTRACT AWARD: 4.11.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 7.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, UK-Hartfield,
Hertfordshire AL10 9AB.
V.4) INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT Initial estimated total value of
the contract:
Value: 150 000 EUR.
Excluding VAT.
Total final value of the contract:
Value: 142 868 EUR.
Excluding VAT.
If annual or monthly value: number of months: 11.
V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED: Yes. Value or
proportion of the contract likely to be sub-contracted to third parties:
Proportion: 29,00 %
Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be
sub-contracted: 29,9 %:
— INRA 4,3 %,
— Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animali 6,3 %,
— Agricultural University of Wroclaw 3,8 %,
— University of Ljubjana 4,4 %,
— FH Land Management 4 %,
— SIU Crop Production Institute 2,6 %,
— Ingenieurbüro Feldwisch 4,5 %.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: No.
VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg.
E-mail: ECJ.Registry@curia.europa.eu. Tel. +352 4303-1. URL:
http://curia.europa.eu. Fax +352 433766.
VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: within 2 months of the notification of the plaintiff, or,
in absence thereof, of the day on which it came to knowledge.
VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 11.11.2009.
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