Section I: Contracting authority

• I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s):

  European GNSS Supervisory Authority , attention: Sandrine B uard, rue de la Loi 56 , B -1049 B ruxelles/B russel . Fax (32-2) 292 17 56 . E-mail: tenders@gsa.europa.eu .

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: http://www.gsa.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.

  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:

    Support to EGNOS certification.

  • II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

    Services.

    Service category: No 12.

    Main place of performance: contractor's premises.

  • II.1.3) The notice involves:

    A public contract.

  • II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

    The general aim of the project is to provide independent expertise to support the certification process for EGNOS.

  • II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

    71600000, 71700000.

  • 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:

    The specific objective of the project is to provide for support in key technical areas to complete the development of the EGNOS safety case documents and prepare the EGNOS service provider certification.

    This contract includes the execution of the following tasks:

    — task 1: contractual and technical management;

    — task 2: presentation of EGNOS consolidated data;

    — task 3: preparation of consolidated data report;

    — task 4: support to the dradiving of EGNOS Part A safety case;

    — task 5: collection of certification supporting documentation;

    — task 6: preparation on EGNOS service provider certification;

    — task 7: evolution of the EGNOS security baseline;

    — task 8: support to COTS sodivware certification.

    Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 800 000.

  • 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:

    For any pre-financing higher than EUR 100 000, a financial guarantee equivalent to the amount of the pre-financing will be requested. Depending on the financial situation of the tenderer, GSA may ask for the financial guarantee for amounts lower than EUR 100 000.

  • III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

    Payments shall be made in accordance with the provisions specified in the service contract. The maximum payment period allowed is 30 days.

  • III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

    Groupings, irrespective of their legal form, may submit bids. Tenderers may, adiver forming a grouping, submit a joint bid on condition that it complies with the rules of competition. Such groupings (or consortium) must specify the company or person heading the project and must also submit a copy of the document authorising this company or person to submit a bid. If awarded, the contract will be signed by the company of the person heading the project, who will be, vis à vis GSA, the only contracting party responsible for the performance of this contract.

  • 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: all tenderers must provide proof of registration, as prescribed in their country of establishment, on one of the professional or trade registers or provide a declaration or certificate. If the tenderer is a natural person, he/she must provide a copy of their identity card/passport or driving licence and proof that he/she is covered by a social security scheme as a self-employed person. Each service provider must complete and sign the identification forms accompanied by requested supporting documents.

  • III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: tenderers must provide proof of their financial and economic capacity by means of the following documents: the balance sheets or extracts from balance sheets for the last 3 financial years, and a statement of overall turnover and turnover relating to the relevant services for the last 3 financial years.

  • III.2.3) Technical capacity:

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

    Technical capacity:

    — competence in GNSS technology (in particular, familiarity with the EGNOS project);

    — in-depth knowledge of ECSS standards (in particular in the area of safety and quality assurance processes);

    — good knowledge of safety standards and certification procedures applicable in the aviation, rail and maritime environment (in particular, in-depth understanding of Eurocontrol safety regulatory requirements (ESARR's) standards);

    — extensive knowledge of sodivware development and certification processes for safety critical systems;

    — at least 5 years of experience in independent sodivware testing activities;

    — familiarity with dynamic web development, in particular good knowledge of XML/XSL and PHP languages as well as good experience with MySQL and web server configuration;

    — familiarity with document management systems, in particular the M-Files tool;

    — good knowledge of the structure and the relevant documents of the safety case in order to provide support for the logical organisation of the file in the DMS tool;

    — comprehensive knowledge of system operations in the context of civil aviation;

    — prior experience in safety auditing;

    — major prior experience in the domain of certification of safety critical systems;

    — at least 5 years of experience in the domain of security analysis.

    In addition, all contractors involved in Task 7, dealing with EGNOS security studies must provide evidence of their experience and ability to comply with security instructions applicable as described in the dradiv security aspects letter attached to the invitation to tender.

    Security capacity:

    — description of the security organisation of each company involved as prime contractor or subcontractor, for the management of classified information up to confidential level, including EU classified information;

    — analysis of the SAL requirements and provision of a compliance matrix;

    — demonstration that the contractor's and subcontractors' personnel with a need to handle EU or national classified information up to the level of confidential in the framework of the contract, hold a valid and appropriate personal security clearance (PSC) for that purpose;

    — description of the specific elements used or produced in the framework of the contract which should be classified and specifying the applicable security classification levels required;

    — demonstration that all industrial or other entities which need an access to information classified confidential hold a national facility security clearance (FSC);

    — for entities registered in a non-EU Member State, proof of an agreement on security procedures for the exchange of classified information established with them, defining the purpose of cooperation and the reciprocal rules on the protection of the information exchanged and following Article 26 of the Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom of 29.11.2001 amending its internal Rules of Procedure;

    — the contractor and the subcontractors for whom access to the classified information provided by the ESA GalileoSat programme is required, must be in EU Member States participants of the GalileoSat PSI , without prejudice to Article 26 of the Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, as mentioned above.

    Tenderers should provide with their bid a detailed curriculum vitae of each staff member responsible for carrying out the work.

  • 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 in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.

  • 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:

    GSA/OP/10/08.

  • IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

    No.

  • IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

    Payable documents: no.

  • IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

    28.10.2008 (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:

    until 28.4.2009.

  • IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders:

    Date: 4.11.2008 (10:00).

    Place: offices of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority.

    Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.

    A representative of each tenderer may attend the opening of the bids.

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:

  Yes.

  Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): Galileo — EGNOS.

• VI.3) Additional information:

  All information regarding this call for tenders, including tender specifications, can be downloaded freely from the website of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority at the following address: http://www.gsa.europa.eu.

• VI.4) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures:

    Court of Justice of the European Communities, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L-2925 Luxembourg. URL: http://curia.eu.int.

    Body responsible for mediation procedures:

    The European Ombudsman, 1, avenue Président Robert Schuman, F-67001 Strasbourg. URL: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu.

  • VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:

    European GNSS Supervisory Authority. E-mail: tenders@gsa.europa.eu.

• VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

  10.9.2008.