Media Monitoring Services for the European Investment Bank Group

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The European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) consists of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF):

• The EIB is the long-term lending institution of the European Union (EU) owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals.
• The EIF is the Group’s specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe. Its shareholders are the EIB, the European Commission and a wide range of public and private financial institutions.

For the purposes of this call for tender, the EIB Group is represented by the European Investment Bank.

The scope of this procurement procedure is the provision of consultancy services in providing media monitoring services to the European Investment Bank Group. It is understood that the Service Provider shall have:

• qualifications and general experience in the domains for which the services are being tendered;
• a very good knowledge of English, written and spoken.

Under the present system the average number of articles processed by the internal media monitoring and evaluation team stands at about 250 articles per day reaching more than 1,500 in periods of intense coverage. The annual figures for articles included in the current Bank’s full coverage press review are, over the last years:

• 74,000 in 2016
• 87,000 in 2017
• 44,000 in S1 2018

For country volumes and weight, please see:

Annex 1.1 – 2017 volume and weight by country

Annex 1.2 – Q1 2018 volume and weight by country

As part of its communication strategy, the Bank is seeking to outsource certain media monitoring services based on print and online media, TV, radio and news agencies.

With a view to streamlining and upgrading these services, the Service Provider must be able to monitor:

• Print, broadcast, online and news agencies media published in all EU Member States;
• For Serbia, Ukraine and Turkey, a specific set of Print and Online publications as shown in Annex 3.11;
• For the rest of the world: Service Provider must be able to monitor online coverage at least in countries listed in – see Annex 3.12. If available, a global online monitoring is encouraged.

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