Tenderers shall have sufficient technical and professional capacity to enable them to perform the contract in compliance with the contractual provisions. If, in the light of the information supplied, the European Parliament has doubts about a tenderer's technical and professional capacity, or if this is clearly insufficient for the performance of the contract, the tender may be rejected without the tenderer being able to claim any financial compensation.
Minimum Requirements
With regards to the contract which is the subject of this invitation to tender, the European Parliament requires tenderers, including the persons responsible for carrying out the services, to have the following technical and professional capacity:
— At least one (1) person of the core team need to have a professional and/or academic experience of a minimum of three (3) years, of which at least two (2) years in one of the six (6) areas described under “Objectives” of the Global Terms of Reference of this Framework service contract (Annex I) the tenderer is applying for, obtained after their university degree Moreover,
—— to qualify as a researcher, a professional and/or academic experience of a minimum of three (3) years is required,
—— to qualify as a senior researcher, a professional and/or academic experience of a minimum of five (5) years is required,
—— at least one person to qualify as project leader, a professional and/or academic experience of a minimum of five (5) years is required,
— A publishing record in the field of the EU budget.
These minimal requirements of technical and professional capacity shall be assessed on the basis of the information included in the following documents, to be supplied by tenderers:
— The educational and professional qualifications (CVs) of the staff planned for the performance of the contract, including the ones of any sub-service providers or sub contractors, if relevant. For each CV (maximum three (3) pages), the tenderer shall indicate if it corresponds to a researcher, senior researcher or project leader profile (please refer to the corresponding definitions used here above for additional information),
— A compilation of publications of the staff planned for the execution of the services on relevant issues carried out in the past five (5) years.
The tenderer or candidate may also rely on the capacity of other entities, irrespective of the legal nature of the links between himself and those entities (see Sections 7 and 8 above on groups of economic operators and sub-contracting). In that case, he/she shall prove to the European Parliament that he/she shall have the resources needed to perform the contract, for instance by providing a commitment by those entities to that effect. The European Parliament is entitled to refuse the application or the tender submitted if it has doubts about the commitment of the third party.
For a group of economic operators and in case of sub-contracting, it is the global technical and professional capacity of all the members that is taken into account in the evaluation.