Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-09
Buyer: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48730000: Security software package | 79710000: Security services
Submission deadline: 2018-07-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DE-München: OFFENTLIGT UDBUD nr. 2085 vedrørende levering af tjenesteydelser forbundet med it-sikkerheds- og systemkvalitetsvurderinger
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 6700 staff at EPO headquarters in Munich, a branch at The Hague / Rijswijk (NL) and sub-offices in Berlin and Vienna (the number of Member States and staff members indicated may change).
Provision by the Contractor to the EPO of IT Security and System Quality Assessment Services - upon commissioning by the EPO.
The total contract value may add up to a maximum of 10 500 000 EUR considering all 3 lots combined. These figures are indicative and not binding to the EPO.
Supporting the solution delivery process of new systems and existing systems already running in the production environment and for the delivery independent security assessment, in particular:
Support services in order to assess the risks of systems during their development lifecycle or for critical existing systems in order to assess, whenever required, the existing security posture of the organisation.
Bidders may submit offers for 1 or any number of Lots. It is planned to award one contract per lot and the contracts can be awarded to the same Contractor.
Payment will be made within 30 (thirty) calendar days following acceptance of delivered work and receipt of the invoice in the correct form.
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:
European Patent Office, Jean-Philippe Goepfert, PD48 Central Procurement, Tender nº 2085, Patentlaan 2, 2288 EE Rijswijk, The Netherlands, email: dhtenderclarifications@epo.org
— bids must be submitted in signed paper original plus an electronic version of all documents on a data-carrier.
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.