E-Bilbao: provision of copywriting, editing and proof checking services in English

Country:

Spain

City/Locality:

MPILMPAO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:215936-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 20, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 30, 2008

Buyer:

EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK

Original Language:

English

Address:

EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
BILBAO
Spain

Email:

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Notice Type: C398
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 160/2008
, #
215936-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work, attn: Communication and Promotion Unit, Gran Via 33,
E-48009 Bilbao. Tel. (34-94) 479 43 60. Fax (34-94) 479 43 83. E-mail:
information@osha.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://osha.europa.eu.
Further information can be obtained at:
as in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
as in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
as in above-mentioned contact point(s).
I.2) Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
Occupational safety and health.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Provision of copywriting, editing and proof checking services in English.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 15.
Main place of performance: contractor's and agency's premises.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: duration in year(s): 4.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value excluding VAT:
range: between EUR 280 000 and EUR 400 000.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Provision of
copywriting, editing and proof checking services in English.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 78000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Estimated value excluding VAT:
range: between EUR 70 000 and EUR 100 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 12 (from the award of the contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: See the technical
specifications.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See the technical
specifications.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See the technical specifications.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
please refer to the technical specifications (section D).
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
the tenderer must submit evidence of his capacity to perform the contract.
The evaluation committee will examine the offers to ensure that the
information requested in the selection criteria has been provided and that
the tenderer fulfils all these criteria. Offers which fail to include some
of the information requested, may be rejected outright.
In the case of a consortium submitting an offer, each member of the
consortium must provide the required evidence. For 'technical capacity'
the evidence provided by each member of the consortium will be checked at
consortium level to ensure that the consortium fulfils the criteria.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
the tenderer must be able to prove that he is in a stable financial
position.
Evidence of this capacity must be provided by:
— a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and its turnover in
respect of the services to which the contract relates for the previous 3
financial years.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
the tenderer must have the following technical capacity to perform the
contract:
— at least 3 years' experience in providing copywriting, editing and proof
checking services.
Ability to correspond with EU-OSHA via electronic mail and work with
Microsoft Office compatible documents and Adobe Acrobat. Ability to
provide writers with native speaker standard language skills. Ability to
provide writers with experience of writing appealing copy for various
audiences (general public, the media, health and safety specialists).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
evidence of this capacity must be provided by:
— a detailed list of the principal services provided in the past 3 years
including the value, dates and recipients of the services provided. A list
of the tenderers technical equipment. CV's of the writers editors and
proof checkers proposed.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Yes.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated below:
1. appropriateness of the proposed team which will provide the services
requested; weighting: 30;
2. consistency of the proposal (including simulation exercises) in respect
of the services requested; weighting: 15;
3. originality, relevance and preciseness of approach; weighting: 15;
4. turnaround time; weighting: 10;
5. Price; weighting: 30.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
OSHA/CPU/2008/T2.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Time limit for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 18.9.2008 (16:00).
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
30.9.2008 (16:00).
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and
Swedish.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 9.10.2008 (10:30).
Place: Agency's premises.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Tenderers wishing to attend the opening session should send a confirmation
e-mail to:
information@osha.europa.eu, not later than 7.10.2008.
A maximum of 1 representative per tender may attend the session.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No.
VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU
funds: No.
VI.3) Additional information: This procedure concerns provision of
copywriting, editing and proof checking services, in English only.
Due to the definition of tasks required, technical specifications will be
available only in English.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of the First
Instance of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925
Luxembourg. Tel. (352) 43 03-1. Fax (352) 43 03-2100. E-mail:
CFI.Registry@curia.europa.eu. URL: http://curia.europa.eu.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
The European Ombudsman, 1 avenue du Président Robert Schuman BP 403,
F-67001 Strasbourg Cedex. Tel. (33) 388 17 23 13. Fax (33) 388 17 90 62.
E-mail: eo@ombudsman.europa.eu. URL: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals:
within 2 months of the notification to the plaintiff, or, in absence
thereof, of the day on which it came to the knowledge. A complaint to the
European Ombudsman does not have as an effect either to suspend this
period or to open a new period for lodging appeals.
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: See comments under Section I: contracting authority.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 8.8.2008.

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