Results of the procurement procedure
Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.4)Type of the contracting authorityEuropean institution/agency or international organisation
I.5)Main activityGeneral public services
Section II: Object
II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:
Implementing Dictionaries of Regulatory Concepts and Reporting Obligations by Assisted Machine Learning
Reference number: FISMA/2019/050/E
II.1.2)Main CPV code72212170 Compliance software development services
II.1.3)Type of contractServices
II.1.4)Short description:
The overall objective of the service contract is to develop practical solutions to apply natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), techniques combined with human expert input, to analyse legal texts and identify relevant concepts and their definitions. Another objective is to identify reporting requirements contained in the analyzed legal texts.
II.1.6)Information about lotsThis contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.7)Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)Value excluding VAT: 540 000.00 EUR
II.2)Description
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)72314000 Data collection and collation services
72322000 Data management services
73220000 Development consultancy services
79140000 Legal advisory and information services
79131000 Documentation services
II.2.3)Place of performanceNUTS code: 00 Not specified
Main site or place of performance:
The tasks are to be performed at the premises designated by the contractor. A maximum of 6 co-ordination meetings with the contracting authority will be held in Brussels.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
More specifically, the contractor is expected to perform the following tasks:
1) Cover entire body of legislation in the scope of DG FISMA, i.e. Level 1, Level 2 legislation, Level 3 documents and case law documents as it evolves. The evolving aspect of the corpus of documents in time is an important element that must be addressed;
2) Build a glossary of concepts relevant for the covered corpus of documents by identifying their definitions;
3) Build a dictionary of reporting obligations laid out in the covered corpus of documents identifying key characteristics of the obligations – who reports what to whom;
4) Achieve accuracy of the compiled dictionaries of close to 100 % through human assisted ML;
5) Design and develop tools to use the dictionaries in practical work of DG FISMA in legislative research and drafting that allow to browse, search, explore the concepts in the glossary, the reporting obligation dictionary and the corpus of annotated documents.
II.2.5)Award criteriaQuality criterion - Name: Quality and relevance of the proposed methodology / Weighting: 65
Quality criterion - Name: Organisation of the work / Weighting: 14
Quality criterion - Name: Quality control measures / Weighting: 21
Price - Weighting: 40
II.2.11)Information about optionsOptions: no
II.2.13)Information about European Union fundsThe procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
II.2.14)Additional information
See procurement documents.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Description
IV.1.1)Type of procedureOpen procedure
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
IV.2)Administrative information
IV.2.1)Previous publication concerning this procedure IV.2.8)Information about termination of dynamic purchasing system
IV.2.9)Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: FISMA/2019/050/E4/SE/OP
Title:
Implementing Dictionaries of Regulatory Concepts and Reporting Obligations by Assisted Machine Learning
A contract/lot is awarded: yes
V.2)Award of contract
V.2.1)Date of conclusion of the contract:12/12/2019
V.2.2)Information about tendersNumber of tenders received: 5
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no
V.2.3)Name and address of the contractorOfficial name: Crosslang NV
National registration number: 869914707
Postal address: Kerkstraat 106, Amerikagebouw
Town: Gentbrugge
NUTS code: BE BELGIQUE-BELGIË
Postal code: 9050
Country: Belgium
The contractor is an SME: yes
V.2.4)Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: 540 000.00 EUR
Total value of the contract/lot: 500 875.00 EUR
V.2.5)Information about subcontractingThe contract is likely to be subcontracted
Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties
Proportion: 32 %
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3)Additional information:
See procurement documents.
VI.4)Procedures for review
VI.4.1)Review bodyOfficial name: General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Postal address: rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Town: Luxembourg
Postal code: 2925 Luxembourg
Country: Luxembourg
E-mail:
generalcourt.registry@curia.europa.euTelephone: +352 4303-1
Fax: +352 4303-2100
Internet address:
http://curia.europa.eu/ VI.4.3)Review procedurePrecise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
Within 2 months of the notification to the plaintiff or, in the absence thereof, of the day on which it came knowledge. A complaint to the European Ombudsman does not have as an effect either to suspend or to open a new period for lodging appeals.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:17/01/2020