Framework contract for the provision of language training services to the European Commission at its offices in Grange, Dunsany, County Meath

European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, Directorate F, Food and Veterinary Office

This invitation to tender concerns the teaching of 4 official languages of the European Union: English (EN), French (FR), German (DE) and Spanish (ES). Each language is to be taught at a maximum of 7 different levels depending on the level of the participants. Each level will be of 66 hours' duration comprising weekly classes (of 2 hours per class) from October to June, followed by 2 weeks of semi-intensive courses (2 hours per day) in August. Candidates are required to tender for all 4 languages mentioned above.
The eventual contractor will be asked, as necessary, to provide in addition to face-to-face teaching, courses partly based on distance learning (blended learning).
In exceptional circumstances, the eventual contractor may also be asked to organise the teaching of any one or more of the other 19 languages of the Union: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), Greek (EL), Hungarian (HU), Irish (GA), Italian (IT), Latvian (LV), Lithuanian (LT), Maltese (MT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL) and Swedish (SV) as well as any other languages which would become an official language during the duration of this contract. However, it is not expected that any more than 1 of these languages will need to be taught at a time.
The teaching of the 4 stipulated languages will be available at the signature of the contract. The teaching of any of the other 19 languages is to be provided within 3 months of a request by the European Commission.
If blended learning is required for any level of a language the European Commission will give the eventual contractor 3 months' notice.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2013-04-19. The procurement was published on 2013-02-21.

Who?

• • European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, Directorate F, Food and Veterinary Office

What?

• • Training services › Provision of language courses