B-Brussels: framework contract for the evaluation of CAP measures concerning sectors subject to past or present direct support

Country:

Belgium

City/Locality:

BRYJELLES

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:276302-2007

Publication Date:

Nov 15, 2008

Deadline:

Nov 30, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Original Language:

English

Address:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BRUSSELS
Belgium

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Notice Type: C398 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 227/2007, #276302-2007
Referenced Document Number: 34339-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Commission, attn: Mr
Martin Scheele, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 130, Office: L-130 8/29, B-1049
Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 296 39 70. Fax (32-2) 296 42 67. E-mail:
Agri-G4@ec.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eval/index_en.htm.
Further information can be obtained from:
the above-mentioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from:
the above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
the above-mentioned 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:
Framework contract for the evaluation of CAP measures concerning sectors
subject to past or present direct support.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 10.
Main place of performance:
the place of work will be at the contractor’s premises.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: 4 years.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value, excluding VAT:
EUR 13 300 000.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Framework
contract to evaluate the impacts of the CAP measures directed towards
different agricultural sectors that were in the past or still are subject
to coupled direct support, including the transition to decoupling.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders should be submitted for: 1 or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The maximum indicative amount of the
framework contract will be EUR 13 300 000.
Estimated value, excluding VAT: EUR 13 300 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Duration: 48
months from the award of the contract.
Information about lots
Lot No 1
Title: Horizontal issues
1) Short description: This lot will cover different horizontal issues
concerning coupled and decoupled direct support (implications for
structures, incomes, and market).
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 2 400 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 2 400 000.
Lot No 2
Title: Cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (COP)
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning cereals, oilseeds and
protein crops.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 750 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 750 000.
Lot No 3
Title: Energy crops
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning energy crops.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 500 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 500 000.
Lot No 4
Title: Sheep and goat
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning sheep and goat.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 400 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 400 000.
Lot No 5
Title: Beef and veal, dairy products
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning beef and veal and dairy
products.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 600 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 600 000.
Lot No 6
Title: Rice and tobacco
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning rice and tobacco.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 750 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 750 000.
Lot No 7
Title: Starch, sugar and cotton
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning starch, sugar and
cotton.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 600 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 600 000.
Lot No 8
Title: Fruits and vegetables, nuts, olive oil and table olives
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning fruits and vegetables,
nuts, olive oil and table olives.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 900 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 900 000.
Lot No 9
Title: Small 'CMOs', hops, fibre plants and seeds
1) Short description: The evaluations project under this lot will examine
the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and possible
unintended side-effects of the measures concerning small 'CMOs', hops,
fibre plants and seeds.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 74131400, 77000000.
3) Quantity or scope: The indicative maximum amount for this lot will be
EUR 1 400 000.
Estimated cost, excluding VAT: EUR 1 400 000.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: For each specific contract
above EUR 300 000, a performance guarantee shall be constituted by
deductions of 10 % from each interim payment. It shall be discharged by
payment of the balance. It shall cover the satisfactory completion of the
specific contract. In the event of default, delay, and/or defective
performance of the contract, the Commission will be entitled to such
penalties and liquidated damages, as defined in point 6.3.3 of the tender
specifications, to make good its losses, in particular by deducting the
relevant amount from invoices and, if necessary, from the performance
guarantee.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Payment of 20 % of
the total amount of each specific contract following approval by the
Commission of the first interim deliverable payment of 40 % of the total
amount of each specific contract following approval by the Commission of
the second interim deliverable payment of 40 % of the total amount of each
specific contract following approval by the Commission of the final
deliverable.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See tender specifications, sections
7.3 and 7.4.
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, section 8.2.1.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
see tender specifications, section 8.2.3.1.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
see tender specifications, section 8.2.3.2.
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: 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:
AGRI-2007-G4-01.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice number in OJ: 2007/S 29-034339 of 10.2.2007.
Other previous publications:
notice number in OJ: 2007/S 179-218234 of 18.9.2007.
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: 8.2.2008.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
21.2.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate can 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: 48 months from the date stated for receipt of tender.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 29.2.2008 (10:30).
Place:
Agriculture and Rural Development DG, Rue de la Loi 130, Office 8/29,
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
One representative of each tenderer, duly mandated, is allowed to attend
the opening (proof of identity must be given by presentation of a passport
or identity card). If tenderers wish to be present, they shall inform Unit
G.4 of Agriculture and Rural Development DG by fax no later than 1 week
before the opening date, to the fax number indicated in point I.1.
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.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad
Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg. Tel. (352) 43 03-1. Fax (352) 43 37 66.
E-mail: ECJ.Registry@curia.europa.eu. URL: http://www.curia.europa.eu/.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
The European Ombudsman, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, BP 403,
F-67001 Strasbourg. Tel. (33) 388 17 23 13. Fax (33) 388 17 90 62. E-mail:
euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int. URL: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/.
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 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.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice of the
European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg. Tel.
(352) 43 03-1. Fax (352) 43 37 66. E-mail: ECJ.Registry@curia.europa.eu.
URL: http://www.curia.europa.eu/.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 14.11.2007.

Update: Oct 16, 2008

Notice Type: C398
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 201/2008
, #
266176-2008
Referenced Document Number: 276302-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Cancellation notice
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 227 of
24.11.2007, open procedure, 276302-2007)
European Commission, attention: Mr Martin Scheele, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat
130, Office: L-130 8/29, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 296 39 70.
Fax (32-2) 296 42 67. E-mail: Agri-G4@ec.europa.eu
Note:
The awarding procedure has been declared unsuccessful.
Lot 2: Cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (COP). 2 offers were received
by the deadline set out in the tender specification. The offers were
assessed by the evaluation committee and both of them were declared
eligible with regards to the results of assessing the quality of the
offers. However, given that, on the one hand, the corrected price offer
for the study simulation of one of the offers exceeded the maximum
threshold set out in section 9.3.2 of the terms of reference, and, on the
other hand, the other offer did not fulfil the requirements of the terms
of reference (section 8.4), both offers were rejected.

Update: Oct 18, 2008

Notice Type: C398
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 203/2008
, #
268730-2008
Referenced Document Number: 276302-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Cancellation notice
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 227 of
24.11.2007, open procedure, 276302-2007)
European Commission, attention: Mr Martin Scheele, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat
130, Office: L-130 8/29, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 296 39 70.
Fax (32-2) 296 42 67. E-mail: Agri-G4@ec.europa.eu.
Note:
The awarding procedure has been declared unsuccessful.
Lot 7: Starch, sugar and cotton. 2 offers were received by the deadline
set out in the tender specification. The offers were assessed by the
Commission against the exclusion, selection and award criteria. Both of
them were declared eligible with respect to the exclusion and selection
criteria. However, with respect to the award criteria, 1 offer was
assessed to be below average quality, and received an average quotation
below the threshold of 60 points in total. Therefore, in accordance with §
9.3.1 of the tender specifications, this offer had to be rejected. As a
result, only 1 offer was declared eligible in terms of quality. As
foreseen in section 9.3.2 of the tender specification, this offer was
assessed against the price criteria. By applying the offered unit prices
to the simulated evaluation study, it was discovered that the maximum
threshold set out in section 9.3.2 of the tender specification was
exceeded. Therefore, this offer had to be rejected as well.

Update: Nov 15, 2008

Notice Type: C398
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 223/2008
, #
296215-2008
Referenced Document Number: 276302-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Incomplete procedure
('Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union' No S 227 of
24.11.2007, open procedure, 276302-2007)
European Commission, attention: Mr Martin Scheele, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat
130, Office: L-130 8/29, B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel. Tel. (32-2) 296 39 70.
Fax (32-2) 296 42 67. E-mail: Agri-G4@ec.europa.eu.
Note:
The awarding procedure has been declared unsuccessful.
Lot 4: Sheep and goat. 1 offer was received by the deadline set out in the
tender specifications. The offer was assessed by the Commission against
the exclusion, selection and award criteria. The offer was declared
eligible with respect to the exclusion and selection criteria. However,
with respect to the award criteria, the offer was assessed to be below
average quality, and received an average quotation below the threshold of
60 points in total. Therefore, in accordance with § 9.3.1 of the tender
specifications, the offer had to be rejected.

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