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Contract Award

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   BRISTOL
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:26295-2010
Publication Date:   Jan 28, 2010
Buyer:   SKEP NETWORK, ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, UK
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   SKEP NETWORK, ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, UK
BRISTOL, EXTRA-REGIO
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.environment-agency.gov.uk

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Notice Type: 2280 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 19/2010, #26295-2010
Referenced Document Number: 167983-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): SKEP Network, Environment
Agency, UK, Burghill Road, Westbury on Trym, Contact: SKEP Network,
Environment Agency, Attn: SKEP Call Secretariat / Simon Gardner, Bristol
BS10 6BF, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 7770644128. E-mail:
simon.gardner@environment-agency.gov.uk. Fax +44 1179142929.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.environment-agency.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.skep-era.net/site/
93.asp?catID=166.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
Environment.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract: SKEP Third Call.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category No 8.
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: EU.
NUTS code FIZ.
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The call
focuses on the challenges and opportunities of converging technologies for
environmental regulation. It is structured according to 3 pillars, which
will each consider a different aspect of the impact of emerging
technologies. These are:
1) assessing the regulatory challenges ahead;
2) reviewing the sustainability of existing legal frameworks;
3) response management, including communication and public engagement.
Cross-cutting themes.
These pillars will be supported by targeted case-studies which would
assess the impacts of emerging technologies in the following specific
areas:
— case-study 1: environmental limits,
— case-study 2: waste impacts,
— case-study 3: human health and environmental impacts.
The projects will be for a maximum duration of 3 years.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73000000.
II.2) TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s): Value: 511 000 EUR.
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. Presented in the tender documents.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
Contact: SKEP Call Secretariat, UK Environment Agency, UK, Burghill Road,
Westbury on Trym.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Contract
notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2009/S 116-167983 of 17.6.2009.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
CONTRACT NO: 1
TITLE: Nanomaterials in reach – evaluation of applicability of existing
procedures for chemical safety assessment to nanomaterials.
V.1) Date of contract award decision: 1.11.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 7.
CONTRACT NO: 2
TITLE: Simulating and evaluating a better regulation of converging
technologies.
V.1) Date of contract award decision: 1.11.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 7.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: Yes.
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): The SKEP ERA-NET (Scientific
Knowledge for Environmental Protection) is a partnership of 17 government
ministries and agencies, from 13 European countries, responsible for
funding environmental research. The SKEP network aims to facilitate the
improvement of science into policy processes, and to support evidence-led
modern regulation.
VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Key points in the evaluation procedure
were:
— the call was initially opened in February 2009 with a total budget of
EUR 2 130 000. Initially a closing date of 22nd May was given but only a
limited number of proposals was received. In response the Call was
reopened with a closing date in July,
— 7 proposals were received through the SKEP online applications tool,
— 4 of the applicants were contacted to resolve queries regarding their
budgets. The queries were successfully resolved and all proposals
subsequently passed the eligibility check (noting that in proposal 4, the
UK applicant has marginally exceeded (by EUR 132) the available budget,
— the proposals were subjected to 3 further evaluations:
—— scope check – to confirm that the proposals lay within the scope of the
call,
—— funders evaluations – to confirm that the proposals lay within the
scope of the funders, and to establish their priority,
—— peer review – to evaluate the scientific quality of the proposals,
— the scope check and funders evaluations were carried out by the
potential funders, whilst the Peer Review was carried out by a panel of 13
reviewers. Proposals were allocated to reviewers on the basis of expertise
(not by country of origin), and each proposal received at least 4 reviews.
VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Markkinaoikeus, PL 118,
FI-00131 Helsinki, FINLAND. E-mail: markkinaoikeus@oikeus.fi. Tel. +358
103643300. URL: http://www.oikeus.fi/markkinaoikeus. Fax +358 103643314.
VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 27.1.2010.
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