Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-21
Buyer: The European Patent Organisation (EPO), acting through the European Patent Office
Country: DE
Region: Agglomeratie 's-Gravenhage
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72260000: Software-related services
Submission deadline: 2017-05-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DE-München: Offentliggjort bekendtgørelse om offentligt udbud nr. 2139 vedrørende rådgivningstjenester til Den Europæiske Patentmyndighed inden for testning og validering af it-produkter og -tjenester (rammeaftaler)
The European Patent Organisation is an intergovernmental organisation set up pursuant to the European Patent Convention which entered into force in 1977. At present it has 38 Member States (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom). The executive body of the EPO is the European Patent Office which is charged with the searching and examination of European patent applications and the granting of European patents. It employs approximately 6 700 staff at EPO headquarters in Munich, a branch at The Hague/Rijswijk (NL) and sub-offices in Berlin and Vienna.
Within 30 days of acceptance of deliverables, if any, and receipt of the invoice in the correct form.
The contract duration will be 3 years. The EPO may extend it at its discretion once by a further period of 2 years.
Proposals for variants, the effect of which would be to reduce significantly the rights and safeguards of the EPO, are not allowed.
(a) Name and address of department from which the Procurement Documents and clarification of the Procurement Documents may be requested:
Bids should be placed in 1 sealed envelope with separate price information (offer form and any supporting documents) and 1 copy, to be filed on data carrier, e.g. USB-stick without price information as searchable PDF.
If several bidders submit a joint bid, they must be jointly and severally liable for the performance of the obligations under the contract. A declaration to this effect, duly signed by all members of the grouping and appointing a representative that is authorised to act on behalf of all members, must be submitted with the bid.
Bids from bidders who do not fulfil the selection criteria stated in the Procurement Documents and/or whose circumstances are such as seriously to call into question their financial and professional reliability (see Article 2 of the General Conditions of Tender, available under www.epo.org ) will not be considered for contract award.
Bidders' know-how, capacity and reliability to fulfil the contract will be assessed on basis of the information and evidence submitted in reply to the questionnaire in Annex 1 to the General Conditions of Tender and any additional questionnaire(s) included in the Procurement Documents.
The evaluation of the technical aspects will be based on the bidders' responses to the questionnaires as well as the bidders' responses to the sample Requests for Offer.
The evaluation of the financial aspects includes the hourly rates offered, possible discounts and the prices offered in response to the sample Requests for Offer.
Please note that this is a tender for a framework agreement with several contractors. The EPO intends to conclude framework agreements with at least 5 contractors.
Bidders might be invited for a bid presentation to take place in Rijswijk in case technical clarifications are needed. The date and time will be communicated in due time. Respective costs incurred by the bidders relating to such a presentation will not be reimbursed.
DE-München: Bekanntmachung Unbeschränkte Ausschreibung 2139 für die Erbringung von Beratungsleistungen in Bezug auf die Prüfung und Validierung von IT-Produkten und -Dienstleistungen