Services - 627001-2020
24/12/2020    S251

Belgium-Brussels: Non-scheduled Passenger Transport Services by Air, Chartered Air-taxi Service

2020/S 251-627001

Contract notice

Services

Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: European Commission, PMO — Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements
Postal address: Avenue de Tervuren 41
Town: Brussels
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Postal code: B-1049
Country: Belgium
E-mail: pmo-mail-02@ec.europa.eu
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/administration-and-payment-individual-entitlements_en
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: European Parliament
Postal address: Rue Wiertz 60
Town: Brussels
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Postal code: B-1047
Country: Belgium
E-mail: pmo-mail-02@ec.europa.eu
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://ec.europa.eu
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: European External Action Service
Postal address: Rond-point Schuman 9A
Town: Brussels
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Postal code: B-1046
Country: Belgium
E-mail: pmo-mail-02@ec.europa.eu
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://ec.europa.eu
I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: Council of the European Union
Postal address: Rue de la Loi 175
Town: Brussels
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Postal code: B-1048
Country: Belgium
E-mail: pmo-mail-02@ec.europa.eu
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://ec.europa.eu
I.2)Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3)Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=7661
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the following address:
Official name: Office for Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements, PMO.2
Postal address: MERO P3/100
Town: Brussels
Postal code: 1049
Country: Belgium
Contact person: Fernanda Serra
E-mail: pmo-mail-02@ec.europa.eu
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://ec.europa.eu
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
European institution/agency or international organisation
I.5)Main activity
General public services

Section II: Object

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

Non-scheduled Passenger Transport Services by Air, Chartered Air-taxi Service

Reference number: PMO/2020/RP/0003
II.1.2)Main CPV code
60420000 Non-scheduled air transport services
II.1.3)Type of contract
Services
II.1.4)Short description:

Non-scheduled air-taxi transport services for passengers and their luggage. Provision of air-taxi transport services (chartered jet aeroplanes) for use by the president or other members of the European Commission, the European Parliament Presidency, the President of the European Council, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and any accompanying persons, mostly in the European Union. More details in the procurement documents

II.1.5)Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: 13 550 000.00 EUR
II.1.6)Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.3)Place of performance
NUTS code: BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

This contract concerns the provision of non-scheduled air transport services of passengers for use by the President or other members of the European Commission, the European Parliament Presidency, the President of the European Council, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and any accompanying persons, mostly in the European Union.

For information only, and without this being binding on the contracting authorities, the volume of services for all the contracting authorities concerned over 4 years is estimated at 1 606 flight hours, divided into:

— 22 hours for aeroplane category ‘very light jet’;

— 274 hours for aeroplane category ‘light jet’;

— 792 hours for aeroplane category ‘midsize jet’;

— 402 hours for aeroplane category ‘super midsize jet’;

— 93 hours for aeroplane category ‘regional jet’;

— 23 hours for aeroplane category ‘large jet’.

The contracting authority responsible for the procedure is the European Commission. The European Commission, representing the associated institutions, will make a single award decision for all of them. Afterwards, an interinstitutional service contract will be signed by the European Commission, represented by the Director of the PMO. The European Commission will be the main contractor, responsible for managing the contract, and representing in this regard all the participating contracting authorities. The operational aspects of the contract will be the responsibility of each participating contracting authority, acting in complete autonomy. This contract will apply to all the institutions designated as contracting authorities below, which have given a mandate in this regard.

II.2.5)Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6)Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: 13 550 000.00 EUR
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.2.10)Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: no
II.2.11)Information about options
Options: no
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Identification of the project:

European Union administrative appropriations.

II.2.14)Additional information

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions for participation
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions:

As stated in the procurement documents.

III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2)Conditions related to the contract
III.2.1)Information about a particular profession
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:

Contract reserved for air transport companies. Such companies must have a valid operating licence granted by any competent authority in the country in which they have their main establishment and, if applicable, their headquarters. Any air transport company established in a European Union Member State must have a valid operating licence granted by a member state in accordance with the EU regulations in force concerning the licences of air carriers, and any air transport company established outside the European Union must have a valid operating licence granted in accordance with the rules defined by the ICAO. The candidate shall provide this document in his request to participate.

The candidate must meet all national, EU and international rules allowing him to provide the services in this contract notice. If there is any inconsistency between the different rules, the most stringent rule will apply.

III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:

See address under I.3).

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Framework agreement with a single operator
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.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date: 21/01/2021
Local time: 17:00
IV.2.3)Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.3)Additional information:
VI.4)Procedures for review
VI.4.1)Review body
Official name: General Court of the European Union
Postal address: rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Town: Luxembourg
Postal code: 2925
Country: Luxembourg
E-mail: GC.Registry@curia.europa.eu
Telephone: +352 4303-1
Internet address: http://curia.europa.eu
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
Official name: European Ombudsman
Town: Strasbourg
Country: France
VI.4.3)Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Within 2 months of the plaintiff being notified or, failing this, of the date on which it became known to them. A complaint made to the European Ombudsman neither suspends this period nor opens a new period for lodging appeals.

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
14/12/2020