Contracting authority I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, attn: Roseanna Creamer, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Roseanna Creamer. Tel. rvc@eurofound.eu.int. Internet address(es): General address of the contracting authority (URL): http://www.eurofound.eu.int. Further information can be obtained from: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities: European institution/agency or international organisation. Social policy. The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no. Object of the contract II.1) Description II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Recent Changes in the Jobs Structure of the EU. Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Services. Service category No 8. outside the Foundation with occasional meeting at the Foundation's premises. A public contract. Information on framework agreement II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The overall objective of this project is to increase knowledge into what kinds of jobs (in terms of their quality) have been created and destroyed in Europe since the 1990s. This project, then, is directly aimed at studying the process of change in the EU labour markets (the structural change that results from the continuous process of job creation and destruction) from the 1990s until the present. A secondary objective of this project will be to qualify this change by decomposing it by economic sectors and socio-demographic variables, with the aims of: (a) assessing the contribution of different economic sectors to the evolution of job creation and destruction in the selected periods of time; (b) assessing the relation between the process of job creation and destruction and the socio-demographic characteristics of the job holders (gender, age, etc.). Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73210000. Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes. Quantity or scope of the contract II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The contractor is to produce the following deliverables: 1. 3 short interim reports (on the literature review, analytical framework and methodology) will be delivered during the project implementation, briefly updating the overall development of the project. Each of these interim reports will be no longer than 15 pages, and will not be published by the Foundation, but only for internal use; 2. literature review, analytical framework and methodological report: these 3 reports will be based on the first task of the contract (see above). Each will be 30-50 pages long, and will be considered for publication by the Foundation in electronic format, in the project web site; 3. this will be the result of transformations of the LFS, the ECHP and possibly other datasets, following the guidelines described above. It will be supplied in SPSS format, with all the necessary variable and value labels; 4. syntax files and documentation of the transformation and linking process: this consists of all the syntax files used for the transformations and linking procedures applied to the LFS, ECHP and other datasets in order to create the analytical dataset. These syntax files and documentation shall enable the EF team or any other researchers to redo (if necessary) all the transformations and linking procedures so as to get from the LFS, ECHP, etc. to the analytical dataset. In principle, this documentation will not be published by the Foundation in any format (just kept for internal use and future reference), but will be made available to any external request and may eventually be published electronically in the web page of the project; 5. this will be the main report from the detailed study of the analytical dataset following the specifications described above. It will be prepared with a view to being published in paper and electronic format by the Foundation. It will be written in clear and correct English, it will include easily understandable and clean tables and charts, it will discuss the results in the light of relevant literature and current debates, it will clearly outline the methodology followed and it will address the policy implications of the findings. It will be around 60 to 80 pages in total. between EUR 94 000 and EUR 110 000. Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Completion: 1.11.2007. Legal, economic, financial and technical information III.1) Conditions relating to the contract III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: Not applicable. Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See technical specifications (terms of payment). Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded: Consortia must indicate in their tender which legal form they intend to assume and specify the role, qualifications and experience of each member of the group. A consortium can be a permanent, legally established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted for this tender procedure. The member of the group (the leader) which will take legal and administrative responsibility for the contract must also be specified. All members of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all partners) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority. Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject: No. 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: (a) a signed and dated statement that the tenderer is not excluded from participation in the contract, as provided for in Article 29 of Directive 92/50/EEC; (b) a signed and dated statement that within the last 3 years the tendering firm/individual has not been required to pay financial penalties or had payment deducted from monies arising from failure to perform in accordance with contractual obligations; (c) tenderers are required to produce documentary evidence that they are in compliance with national VAT/tax obligations. Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate bank references or proof of professional risk insurance covers; (b) balance sheets or summaries thereof for at least the past 2 financial years for which accounts have been closed, where publication of balance sheets is prescribed under company law in the country in which the tenderer is established; (c) statements of total turnover, and turnover relating to the provision of similar services, realised over a period which does not exceed the past 3 financial years; (where the tenderer is an individual, he/she is obliged to provide proof of his/her independent status and documentary evidence concerning social security cover, VAT obligations or proof of exemption from VAT as appropriate). Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) list of references for recent similar contracts; (b) a comprehensive company profile; (c) CVS of the staff proposed for this contract; (d) proven experience (references of publications, papers, research projects, etc.) in the analysis of microdata (large datasets), in particular that from EU LFS and ECHP. Conditions specific to services contracts III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No. Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: Yes. Procedure IV.1) Type of procedure: Open. The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below: criteria; weighting; 1. the quality of methodology of the project submitted by the tenderer ; 40; 2. composition of the project team; 40; 3. the quality of the project plan submitted by the tenderer, in respect of work organisation, resource allocation (personal and budget) and the feasibility of the time plan; 20. Only tenders achieving a minimum of 70 % of the total score will be further evaluated in relation to price. The tender offering best value for money will be chosen. Value for money means the best quality/price combination. The contract will be awarded on the basis of the quality of the proposal, cost and the competence and experience of the applicants, which, in the opinion of the European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, most satisfy the necessary economic and technical criteria. The Foundation will not necessarily award the contract to the lowest bidder. An electronic auction will be used: No. Administrative information IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: 06/0269/01. Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No. Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document: Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 7.7.2006 (12:00). Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 14.7.2006 (17:00). Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English. Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: Duration: 9 months from the date stated for receipt of tender. at the offices of the European Foundation, Room No LH4. Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes. Please advise Roseanna Creamer in advance if you intend to be present at the opening. Complementary information VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No. Contract relates to a project and/or programme financed by EU funds: No. Conditions for tendering: parties interested in participating in the tender procedure are required to obtain from the Foundation the complete dossier of information, including tender specifications. Requests, which should specify how the information pack is to be dispatched, i.e. in electronic format or hard copy, must be made in writing to Ms Roseanna Creamer either by post, fax (353-1) 282 64 56/282 42 09) or e-mail (rvc@eurofound.eu.int), mentioning the complete contact details (name, address, telephone, facsimile, e-mail) of the person/institute issuing the request. Requests made by e-mail or fax must be confirmed by letter within the deadline referred to above for receipt of tenders (i.e. tenders must be submitted in triplicate in a sealed envelope, which is enclosed in a second sealed envelope. The inner envelope must be marked 'Invitation to tender No 06/0269/01. For the attention of Ms Roseanna Creamer. Tender from (name of tenderer). Not to be opened by the mail service. To be opened by the opening committee only.' Note: If self-adhesive envelopes are used, they must be sealed with adhesive tape and the sender must sign across this tape. Submission of tenders by facsimile or by electronic mail is not acceptable and renders these tenders inadmissible. Procedures for appeal VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Bd Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg. Tel. ECJ.Registry@curia.eu.int. http://curia.eu.int. Body responsible for mediation procedures: The European Ombudsman, 1 Avenue du Président Robert Schuman, BP 403, F-67001 Strasbourg. Tel. euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int. http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int/home/en/default.htm. 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 knowledge. A complaint to the European Ombudsman does not have as an affect either to suspend this period or to open a new period for lodging appeals. Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 16.5.2006.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2006-07-14.
The procurement was published on 2006-05-27.
Contract notice (2006-05-16) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Recent changes in the jobs structure of the EU
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Contracting authority I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, attn: Roseanna Creamer, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Roseanna Creamer. Tel. rvc@eurofound.eu.int. Internet address(es): General address of the contracting authority (URL): http://www.eurofound.eu.int. Further information can be obtained from: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: the above-mentioned contact point(s). Type of the contracting authority and main activity or activities: European institution/agency or international organisation. Social policy. The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no. Object of the contract II.1) Description II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Recent Changes in the Jobs Structure of the EU. Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Services. Service category No 8. outside the Foundation with occasional meeting at the Foundation's premises. A public contract. Information on framework agreement II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The overall objective of this project is to increase knowledge into what kinds of jobs (in terms of their quality) have been created and destroyed in Europe since the 1990s. This project, then, is directly aimed at studying the process of change in the EU labour markets (the structural change that results from the continuous process of job creation and destruction) from the 1990s until the present. A secondary objective of this project will be to qualify this change by decomposing it by economic sectors and socio-demographic variables, with the aims of: (a) assessing the contribution of different economic sectors to the evolution of job creation and destruction in the selected periods of time; (b) assessing the relation between the process of job creation and destruction and the socio-demographic characteristics of the job holders (gender, age, etc.). Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73210000. Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes. Quantity or scope of the contract II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The contractor is to produce the following deliverables: 1. 3 short interim reports (on the literature review, analytical framework and methodology) will be delivered during the project implementation, briefly updating the overall development of the project. Each of these interim reports will be no longer than 15 pages, and will not be published by the Foundation, but only for internal use; 2. literature review, analytical framework and methodological report: these 3 reports will be based on the first task of the contract (see above). Each will be 30-50 pages long, and will be considered for publication by the Foundation in electronic format, in the project web site; 3. this will be the result of transformations of the LFS, the ECHP and possibly other datasets, following the guidelines described above. It will be supplied in SPSS format, with all the necessary variable and value labels; 4. syntax files and documentation of the transformation and linking process: this consists of all the syntax files used for the transformations and linking procedures applied to the LFS, ECHP and other datasets in order to create the analytical dataset. These syntax files and documentation shall enable the EF team or any other researchers to redo (if necessary) all the transformations and linking procedures so as to get from the LFS, ECHP, etc. to the analytical dataset. In principle, this documentation will not be published by the Foundation in any format (just kept for internal use and future reference), but will be made available to any external request and may eventually be published electronically in the web page of the project; 5. this will be the main report from the detailed study of the analytical dataset following the specifications described above. It will be prepared with a view to being published in paper and electronic format by the Foundation. It will be written in clear and correct English, it will include easily understandable and clean tables and charts, it will discuss the results in the light of relevant literature and current debates, it will clearly outline the methodology followed and it will address the policy implications of the findings. It will be around 60 to 80 pages in total. between EUR 94 000 and EUR 110 000. Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Completion: 1.11.2007. Legal, economic, financial and technical information III.1) Conditions relating to the contract III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: Not applicable. Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See technical specifications (terms of payment). Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded: Consortia must indicate in their tender which legal form they intend to assume and specify the role, qualifications and experience of each member of the group. A consortium can be a permanent, legally established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted for this tender procedure. The member of the group (the leader) which will take legal and administrative responsibility for the contract must also be specified. All members of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all partners) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority. Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject: No. 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: (a) a signed and dated statement that the tenderer is not excluded from participation in the contract, as provided for in Article 29 of Directive 92/50/EEC; (b) a signed and dated statement that within the last 3 years the tendering firm/individual has not been required to pay financial penalties or had payment deducted from monies arising from failure to perform in accordance with contractual obligations; (c) tenderers are required to produce documentary evidence that they are in compliance with national VAT/tax obligations. Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate bank references or proof of professional risk insurance covers; (b) balance sheets or summaries thereof for at least the past 2 financial years for which accounts have been closed, where publication of balance sheets is prescribed under company law in the country in which the tenderer is established; (c) statements of total turnover, and turnover relating to the provision of similar services, realised over a period which does not exceed the past 3 financial years; (where the tenderer is an individual, he/she is obliged to provide proof of his/her independent status and documentary evidence concerning social security cover, VAT obligations or proof of exemption from VAT as appropriate). Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) list of references for recent similar contracts; (b) a comprehensive company profile; (c) CVS of the staff proposed for this contract; (d) proven experience (references of publications, papers, research projects, etc.) in the analysis of microdata (large datasets), in particular that from EU LFS and ECHP. Conditions specific to services contracts III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No. Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: Yes. Procedure IV.1) Type of procedure: Open. The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below: criteria; weighting; 1. the quality of methodology of the project submitted by the tenderer ; 40; 2. composition of the project team; 40; 3. the quality of the project plan submitted by the tenderer, in respect of work organisation, resource allocation (personal and budget) and the feasibility of the time plan; 20. Only tenders achieving a minimum of 70 % of the total score will be further evaluated in relation to price. The tender offering best value for money will be chosen. Value for money means the best quality/price combination. The contract will be awarded on the basis of the quality of the proposal, cost and the competence and experience of the applicants, which, in the opinion of the European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, most satisfy the necessary economic and technical criteria. The Foundation will not necessarily award the contract to the lowest bidder. An electronic auction will be used: No. Administrative information IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: 06/0269/01. Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No. Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document: Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 7.7.2006 (12:00). Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 14.7.2006 (17:00). Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English. Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: Duration: 9 months from the date stated for receipt of tender. at the offices of the European Foundation, Room No LH4. Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes. Please advise Roseanna Creamer in advance if you intend to be present at the opening. Complementary information VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No. Contract relates to a project and/or programme financed by EU funds: No. Conditions for tendering: parties interested in participating in the tender procedure are required to obtain from the Foundation the complete dossier of information, including tender specifications. Requests, which should specify how the information pack is to be dispatched, i.e. in electronic format or hard copy, must be made in writing to Ms Roseanna Creamer either by post, fax (353-1) 282 64 56/282 42 09) or e-mail (rvc@eurofound.eu.int), mentioning the complete contact details (name, address, telephone, facsimile, e-mail) of the person/institute issuing the request. Requests made by e-mail or fax must be confirmed by letter within the deadline referred to above for receipt of tenders (i.e. tenders must be submitted in triplicate in a sealed envelope, which is enclosed in a second sealed envelope. The inner envelope must be marked 'Invitation to tender No 06/0269/01. For the attention of Ms Roseanna Creamer. Tender from (name of tenderer). Not to be opened by the mail service. To be opened by the opening committee only.' Note: If self-adhesive envelopes are used, they must be sealed with adhesive tape and the sender must sign across this tape. Submission of tenders by facsimile or by electronic mail is not acceptable and renders these tenders inadmissible. Procedures for appeal VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Bd Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg. Tel. ECJ.Registry@curia.eu.int. http://curia.eu.int. Body responsible for mediation procedures: The European Ombudsman, 1 Avenue du Président Robert Schuman, BP 403, F-67001 Strasbourg. Tel. euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int. http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int/home/en/default.htm. 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 knowledge. A complaint to the European Ombudsman does not have as an affect either to suspend this period or to open a new period for lodging appeals. Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 16.5.2006.
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Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Service contract
Regulation: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
Original language: English 🗣️
Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Type of bid: Global tender
Awarding authority type: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
Contracting authority Identity
Awarding authority name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪 Contact
Internet address: rvc@eurofound.eu.int📧
Reference Dates
Publication date: 2006-05-27 📅
Date received: 2006-05-16 📅
Date dispatched: 2006-05-16 📅
Submission deadline: 2006-07-14 📅
Date for dispatch of contract documents: 2006-07-07 📅
Identifiers
Notice number (legacy): 106612-2006
OJ-S issue: 100/2006
Object Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Research consultancy services📦
Source: OJS 2006/S 100-106612 (2006-05-16)
Additional information (2006-06-22) Object Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Reference Dates
Publication date: 2006-06-28 📅
Date received: 2006-06-22 📅
Date dispatched: 2006-06-22 📅
Submission deadline: 2006-08-11 📅
Identifiers
Notice number (legacy): 127453-2006
OJ-S issue: 120/2006
Refers to notice: 106612-2006
Source: OJS 2006/S 120-127453 (2006-06-22)
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Publication date: 2006-07-15 📅
Date received: 2006-07-11 📅
Date dispatched: 2006-07-11 📅
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Notice number (legacy): 141939-2006
OJ-S issue: 133/2006
Source: OJS 2006/S 133-141939 (2006-07-11)