Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-12-08
Buyer: The Secretariat of the Central European Free Trade Agreement 2006
Country: BE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 1700000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-01-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is to enhance trade facilitation and regional economic integration by enabling regular and systematic data exchange among all CEFTA stakeholders in the area of customs, phytosanitary, veterinary and pharmaceutical products.
2.	Customizing and upgrading CEFTA TRACES NT to enable processing of phytosanitary, veterinary and CHED like certificates and pharmaceutical permits within CEFTA and fully automatized data, information and documents exchange including exchange of information on non-compliant consignments for animals and goods (food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy) thus facilitating the risk management of rejected consignments.
5.	Automizing collection and analyzing of statistical data from CEFTA IT systems to monitor and evaluate the implementation of trade facilitation instruments;
6.	Providing training and preparing technical and user and other documentation, ensuring overall security of data and platform, and providing support and maintenance.
Provided they are in conformity with the basic project, new services or works consisting in the repetition of similar services or works, may be entrusted up to 50% of the initial contract to the initial contractor by negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice.
•	The tenderer must have a minimum annual financial turnover of EURO 1.700.000 calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last three (3) years (2022, 2021, 2020);
•	The tenderer must be in business for at least five (5) years in implementing software development projects;
•	The tenderer must be certified according to the Information Security Management Standard ISO 27001 and Quality Management System Standard ISO 9001;
•	The tenderer must have at least ten (10) permanent staff (employees) that currently work for the tenderer in fields related to this contract;
•	The tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years, in the EU or in the CEFTA two projects with a minimum value for services equivalent to EURO 1.000.000 each as follows: 1. one project involving development of customs IT systems and 2. another project involving development of IT certification platforms supporting the importation/exportation of animals, animal products, food and feed of non-animal origin and plants.
•	The tenderer must provide at least three (3) customer references for contracts having run in the past five (5) years preceding the tender submission and covering implementation of interoperability platforms, SOA architecture, data analytics platforms and/or federated identity and access management.

Eligibility requirements: Award criteria: •	The tenderer must have a minimum annual financial turnover of EURO 1.700.000 calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last three (3) years (2022, 2021, 2020); •	The tenderer must be in business for at least five (5) years in implementing software development projects; •	The tenderer must be certified according to the Information Security Management Standard ISO 27001 and Quality Management System Standard ISO 9001; •	The tenderer must have at least ten (10) permanent staff (employees) that currently work for the tenderer in fields related to this contract; •	The tenderer must have successfully implemented in the last five (5) years, in the EU or in the CEFTA two projects with a minimum value for services equivalent to EURO 1.000.000 each as follows: 1. one project involving development of customs IT systems and 2. another project involving development of IT certification platforms supporting the importation/exportation of animals, animal products, food and feed of non-animal origin and plants. •	The tenderer must provide at least three (3) customer references for contracts having run in the past five (5) years preceding the tender submission and covering implementation of interoperability platforms, SOA architecture, data analytics platforms and/or federated identity and access management.

Award value: 1700000