Legal Basis:
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046
Section I: Contracting authority
I.3)CommunicationAdditional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
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:
UCA 21/059 – Provision of services relating to fire-fighting and occupational risk prevention in the Council of the EU buildings in Brussels
Reference number: UCA 21/059
II.1.2)Main CPV code75250000 Fire-brigade and rescue services
II.1.3)Type of contractServices
II.1.4)Short description:
Services relating to fire-fighting and occupational risk prevention in the Council of the European Union buildings in Brussels.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lotsThis contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)75251100 Firefighting services
75251110 Fire-prevention services
II.2.3)Place of performanceNUTS code: BE1 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The services covered by this contract include, in particular, the implementation of first and second response teams, evacuation assistants for major events, and operators for the technical management of firefighting installations.
The main services will include internal and external patrols, incident reporting, fire and accident response and other similar services in current and future buildings occupied and/or managed by the Secretariat.
These services will be provided on the basis of a framework comprising operational, administrative and technical measures in liaison with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.
II.2.5)Award criteriaCriteria below
Price
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing systemDuration in months: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.2.10)Information about variantsVariants will be accepted: no
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
The contracting authority shall not publish the estimated value of the contracts. The estimate of the contract volume is set out in the contractual documents.
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 registersList and brief description of conditions:
Please refer to tender specifications.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standingList and brief description of selection criteria:
Please refer to tender specifications.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to tender specifications.
III.1.3)Technical and professional abilityList and brief description of selection criteria:
Please refer to tender specifications.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to tender specifications.
III.2)Conditions related to the contract
III.2.1)Information about a particular professionExecution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:
The contractor must meet the conditions for access and exercise of the guard services profession in Belgium in accordance with the Belgian law of 2.10.2017 and its subsequent amendments (known as the Jambon Law) regulating private and individual security, which entered into force on 10.11.2017, and more specifically the conditions to be able to carry out the activities set out in points 1, 2, 4 and 5, 7 and 9 of Article 3 of the law. The staff proposed by the contractor for this contract must have an employment contract and be in possession at all times of their identification card issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All agents must be in possession of their departmental card before taking up duties at the Council. In addition, all staff assigned by the contractor for the implementation of this contract and present in the buildings will be required to wear the badge provided by the Council for the current year in a visible manner.
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
The working languages are mainly French and/or English.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Description
IV.1.1)Type of procedureCompetitive procedure with negotiation
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing systemThe procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Framework agreement with a single operator
IV.1.5)Information about negotiation
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
IV.2)Administrative information
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participateDate: 10/01/2022
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 tenderDuration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrenceThis is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.3)Additional information:
The offices of the General Secretariat of the Council will be closed between Christmas and New Year inclusive. We kindly request you to take this closing period into account when submitting any questions about the 1st step of the procedure (i.e. requests to participate).
In case of unavailability or improper functioning of the electronic means of communication referred to in Section I.3) in the last five calendar days before the time limit for receipt indicated in Section IV.2.2), the contracting authority reserves the right to postpone this time limit and issue a new time limit at the Internet address provided in Section I.3), without having to issue a preceding corrigendum to this notice. Economic operators interested in this procurement are invited to subscribe to the call for tenders at the address in Section I.3) in order to get notified when new information or documents are published.
VI.4)Procedures for review
VI.4.3)Review procedurePrecise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
Within two months of notice being given to the plaintiff or, should no notice be given, within two months of the date on which the matter in question became known. Lodging a complaint with the European Ombudsman neither suspends this deadline nor creates a new deadline for appeals.
VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:02/12/2021