Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-05-11
Buyer: Council of Europe Development Bank
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2016-06-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Bank wishes to attract tenders from Small Medium Enterprises who would like to work with the Bank to enhance the Bank's IT infrastructure over the next 3 years
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is issuing a call for tenders in order to select service providers for the provision of contractors for IT projects in 8 separate lots.
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is a multilateral development bank with a social vocation. Established on 16 April 1956 in order to bring solutions to the problems of refugees, its scope of action has progressively widened to other sectors of action directly contributing to strengthening social cohesion in Europe.
The CEB represents a major instrument of the policy of solidarity in Europe in order to help its 41 Member States achieve sustainable and equitable growth: it thus participates in financing social projects, responds to emergency situations and, in so doing, contributes to improving the living conditions of the most disadvantaged population groups.
The CEB contributes to the implementation of socially oriented investment projects through four sectorial lines of action, namely:
The CEB is based on a Partial Agreement among Council of Europe Member States and, according to its Articles of Agreement, is subject to the Council's overall authority. Signed on 16 April 1956 by eight countries, the Bank is the first of the Partial Agreements to have been concluded.
The CEB thus operates within the framework of the Council of Europe and supports its priorities but it has its own legal personality.
At the end of 2015, approximately 200 permanent staff members of 30 different nationalities were employed at the Bank all based in Paris. The two official languages are French and English.
The Bank wishes to attract tenders from Small Medium Enterprises who would like to work with the Bank to enhance the Bank's IT infrastructure over the next 3 to 6 years.
To encourage smaller organisations to participate, the Bank's requirement has been broken down into 8 separate lots leading to the award of a separate contract for each lot.
For its IFRS 9 project the Bank requires integrating a project manager as part of the internal bank projects team.
In addition, and to achieve specific projects, the project manager may be assisted by a system integration specialist and/or a developer to be provided by the tenderer and reporting to the Project Manager. Additional project managers may also be required for projects linked to IFRS 9 (derivative valuation, collateral management, transaction reporting).
With an existing Moody’s ALM system (ex-Fermat) in production, the Bank is preparing an upgrade to the more recent Moody’s Risk Confidence system or an equivalent system. A number of challenges exist in this migration; including the alignment of data inputs required by the Bank’s generalised use of the Moody’s risk platform (Risk Origin and Risk Authority). To attain coherent Information Systems, the project may lead to the required implementation of additional new systems linked to balance sheet management and accounting, using the same type of competencies.
For its ALM project the Bank requires integrating a project manager as part of the internal bank projects team.
In addition, and to achieve specific projects, the project manager may be assisted by a system integration specialist and/or a developer to be provided by the tenderer and reporting to the Project Manager.