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Services - 213642-2017

03/06/2017    S106

Italy-Verona: Research and development consultancy services

2017/S 106-213642

Periodic indicative notice – utilities

This notice is a periodic indicative notice only

Services

Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/25/EU

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Viveracqua S.c. a r.l.
National registration number: 04042120230
Postal address: Lungadige Galtarossa 8 (ingresso da via Campo Marzo nr 6)
Town: Verona
NUTS code: ITD3 Veneto
Postal code: 37133
Country: Italy
Contact person: Alessia Duso
E-mail: alessia.duso@viveracqua.it
Telephone: +39 3428620746
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.viveracqua.it
Address of the buyer profile: https://viveracquaprocurement.bravosolution.com
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Consorcio Para La Gestion De Servicios Medioambientales De La Provincia De Badajoz (promedio)
National registration number: ESP0600044B
Postal address: Calle Felipe Checa, 23
Town: Badajoz
NUTS code: ES431 Badajoz
Postal code: 06071
Country: Spain
Contact person: Francisca Tena Medina
E-mail: ftena@dip-badajoz.es
Telephone: +34 924220427
Fax: +34 924253161
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.promedio.dip-badajoz.es
Address of the buyer profile: www.promedio.dip-badajoz.es
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: EAU DE Paris
National registration number: 510611056
Postal address: 19 Rue Neuve Tolbiac
Town: Paris
NUTS code: FR101 Paris
Postal code: 75013
Country: France
Contact person: Olivier Roy
E-mail: olivier.roy@eaudeparis.fr
Telephone: +33 158063400
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.eaudeparis.fr
Address of the buyer profile: www.eaudeparis.fr
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Syndicat Des Eaux Et De L'assainissement Alsace Moselle (sdea)
National registration number: 256701152
Postal address: Espace Europeen Entreprise — 1 Rue De Rome
Town: Strasbourg
NUTS code: FR421 Bas-Rhin
Postal code: 67013
Country: France
Contact person: Florian SIMONIN
E-mail: florian.simonin@sdea.fr
Telephone: +33 388192919
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.sdea.fr
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Compagnie Intercommunale Liegeoise Des Eaux (cile) Scrl
National registration number: BE 0202.395.052
Postal address: Rue Canal De L'ourthe 8
Town: Liege
NUTS code: BE332 Arr. Liège
Postal code: 4031
Country: Belgium
Contact person: Bernard MICHAUX
E-mail: bernard.michaux@cile.be
Telephone: +32 43678411
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.cile.be
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Hydrobru Scrl
National registration number: BE0237.679.494
Postal address: Lungadige Galtarossa 8 (ingresso da via Campo Marzo nr. 6)
Town: Bruxelles
NUTS code: BE100 Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale / Arr. van Brussel-Hoofdstad
Postal code: 1000
Country: Belgium
Contact person: staff
E-mail: glg@vivaqua.be
Telephone: +32 25188754
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.hydrobru.be
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Fővárosi Vízművek Zrt. (Budapest Waterworks plc.)
National registration number: 01-10-042451
Postal address: Váci út 23-27.
Town: Budapest
NUTS code: HU101 Budapest
Postal code: 1134
Country: Hungary
Contact person: Mr. Gábor Till
E-mail: gabor.till@vizmuvek.hu
Telephone: +36 14652806
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.vizmuvek.hu
I.2)Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
In the case of joint procurement involving different countries, state applicable national procurement law:

Italy.

I.3)Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at: https://viveracquaprocurement.bravosolution.com
I.6)Main activity
Water

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:

EU project 731996 — SMART.MET.

II.1.2)Main CPV code
73200000 Research and development consultancy services
II.1.3)Type of contract
Services
II.1.4)Short description:

This PIN announces open market consultations, promoted by some European public water service providers, and provides information at an early stage on the expected starting date of a Pre–Commercial Procurement (PCP) to buy multiple and competitive R&D (research and development) services, in phases, to develop a new remote reader system for water meters, which ensures effectiveness, efficiency and interoperability and which is based on open standards.

II.1.5)Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: 2 527 200.00 EUR
II.1.6)Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
38421100 Water meters
II.2.3)Place of performance
NUTS code: 00 Not specified
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

The procurement will take the form of a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative prototypes.

Each selected operator will be awarded a framework agreement that covers three R&D phases as well as a phase 1 contract. The three phases: 1) solution design, 2) prototyping, original development and 3) validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services. After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase. Testing will take place in the buyers' facilities This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors.

The procurement is expected to start: 1.3.2017 and to end: 30.11.2020. The Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) will have an estimated duration of 45 months. The future contract notice will provide additional information including the estimated duration per phase.

The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions i.e. beyond the buyers group. The future contract notice will provide additional information on the licenses granted to the buyers group.

II.2.14)Additional information

In preparation for this PCP, all interested operators are invited to take part in an open market consultation (regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure of their organization). Participation is voluntary without reimbursement of any cost.

The market consultation involves the proactive analysis of technology offer and provide a pre-information to the market in orde.

II.3)Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
13/12/2017

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
IV.2)Administrative information

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3)Additional information:

The PCP procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them (because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting entity for its use in the conduct of its own affairs).

This PIN is published to announce open market consultations on a future procurement procedure.

The PIN is not a commitment to procure.

This PIN is published to announce an open market consultation on a future procurement procedure. The PIN is not a commitment to procure. This procurement receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 731996 — SMART.MET (see http://smart-met.eu ).

The EU has given a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
31/05/2017