Purchase of Service Uniforms

Item Description:

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter and the concept of Integrated Border Management.

Frontex coordinates and organises joint operations and rapid border interventions to assist Member States at the external borders, including in humanitarian emergencies and rescue at sea. The agency deploys European Border and Coast Guard teams. It also deploys vessels, aircraft, vehicles and other technical equipment. In addition, Frontex may carry out operations on the territory of non-EU countries neighbouring at least one Member State, in case of migratory pressure at a non-EU country’s border.

In accordance with its mandate, Frontex is recruiting and training more than 700 members of the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps who will be deployed in our operations in 2021. In several years, Frontex will count on 10 000 border and coast guard officers to help European countries with border control and migration management. In accordance with the Council tRegulation (EC) Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 article 82.6, the standing corps statutory staff who are members of the teams shall wear the uniform of the standing corps while performing their tasks and exercising their powers.

More information about Frontex is available on http://www.frontex.europa.eu

Type of contract and lots

The tender is divided into two (2) lots, as follows:

• Lot 1 – Textile items, including the list of garments described under #4.
• Lot 2 – Shoes and accessories, including the list of items described under #4.

Each Tenderer is invited to submit offers for one or both lots. However, for each lot, all items required under the given lot should be offered.

All the information delivered in this document, its annexes and other referred documents shall be taken into consideration by the Tenderers in preparation of their offer and by the Contractor during the contract’s implementation.

Estimated contract volume

The FWC established following this procurement procedure shall cover the purchase of the service uniform, which is intended to be used by the Standing Corps officers in performace of their duties. Therefore the estimated number of the uniform sets is enviseaged to gradually increase from approximately 1000 sets needed for the 1st year of the contract’s implementation to approximately 5000 sets in total. In order to maintain the officers equipped with the full set of usable service uniforms at all times occasional replacement of e.g. worn out items is as well foreseen.

The contract will be implemented through the means of Order Forms, as described in the art.5.1 of this document. The 1st order is estimated to be launched shortly after the signature of the Framework Contract, hereinafter called “FWC” (within 2-3 weeks).

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