Provision of IT Services

Item Description:

The Publications Office of the European Union, (referred to below as the contracting authority) is planning to award contracts resulting from the above procurement procedure. The procurement documents consist of the contract notice, the invitation letter, the draft contract and tender specifications with their respective annexes. All documents are available in the enclosed in ZIP File.

Nature of the contract

The contract is a multiple framework service contract in “sleeping” cascade (“FWC”) with the title: Provision of IT services related to Publications Office IT Systems (EUR-Lex, N-Lex, Search Layer, and others).

As exact implementing conditions, quantities and/or delivery times cannot be indicated in advance, the contracting authority intends to conclude a FWC, which shall establish the basic terms for a series of specific contracts or order forms, the latter being a simplified form of specific contracts (hereafter collectively referred to as “orders”), to be issued over its duration. The FWC do not give rise to any direct obligation on the part of the contracting authority; it is only its implementation through orders that is binding on the part of the contracting authority.

The FWC will be concluded in English. All formal communication related to the FWC and its implementation will be done in the language of the FWC.

The FWC shall be concluded in the form of separate but identical FWCs with three (3) economic operators at most (provided that there are enough economic operators who are not excluded and who satisfy the selection criteria and the award criteria).

After evaluation, the successful tenderers will be ranked in descending order with a view to establishing a list of contractors and a sequence in which they will be offered work when orders are placed. The second contractor in the cascade will only be asked to provide the services foreseen in the FWC if the FWC with the first contractor has been terminated; and the third contractor in the cascade will only be asked to provide the services foreseen in the FWC if the FWC with the both first and second contractors has been terminated.

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