Provision of Travel Agency Services for the Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye and the ECHO Offices in Türkiye

Characteristics of the service to be provided

The services covered by the contract include all the services normally offered by a travel agency in connection with missions. The contractor must comply with the following requirements which are considered essential for the proper completion of the contract and the required quality of service. The requirements for one type of service apply mutatis mutandis to the other types of service (airplane, train, rental car, hotel etc.).

The travel agency must be responsive and shall provide full services in a prompt and accurate manner. Throughout the period of validity of the contract, the travel agency must meet satisfactorily the needs of the contracting authority as regards to work-related travel, including the assistance service, in the following areas:

a)  Accessibility by telephone or e-mail, according to the choice of the person going on mission;

b)  Providing a professional, high-quality proactive and customer-oriented service ;

c)  Delivering optimum cost-efficient solutions: the most economic travel option (including low-cost alternatives or other web-based offers) while minimising transit/connection and stopovers, if applicable ;

d)  Initiating and negotiating the best possible discount rates in order to provide a quotation to the contracting authority for the corresponding service at the best available market price;

e)  Advising travellers and taking a coordinated approach in case where several people are going on mission to the same destination.

The services and provisions listed above are indicative as each mission may require one or more of these services or provisions.

The contracting authority has the right to verify at any time that the offered price is the cheapest available in the market, using different booking tools. The contracting authority still reserves the right to order travel services directly from the providers of the services (airline, hotel, etc.), or other sub providers, in case the contractor is unable to provide the requested service at the same price.

The travel agency will provide the contracting authority and persons going on mission with any topical information (in the style of a travel alert in case of disruptions for example) that may have repercussions on the organisation of a journey, even if it has already started, in accordance with arrangements to be agreed with the contracting authority before the contract enters into force.