Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-05-17
Region: LU000
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79330000
Estimated value: 1350000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-06-28
Award criteria: quality, price
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: For the full list of exclusion grounds please consult the procurement documents.
Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) are indicators of price level differences across countries. PPPs
tell us how many currency units a given quantity of goods and services costs in different countries. PPPs can thus be used as currency conversion rates to convert expenditures expressed in national currencies into an artificial common currency (the Purchasing Power Standard, PPS), eliminating the effect of price level differences across countries. The main use of PPPs is to convert national accounts aggregates, like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of different countries, into comparable volume aggregates. Applying nominal exchange rates in this process would overestimate the GDP of countries with high price levels relative to countries with low price levels. The use of PPPs ensures that the GDP of all countries is valued at a uniform price level and thus reflects only differences in the actual volume of the economy. PPPs are also applied in analyses of relative price levels across countries. For this purpose, the PPPs are divided by the current nominal exchange rate to obtain a price level index (PLI) which expresses the price level of a given country relative to another, or relative to a group of countries like the EU. The production of PPPs is a multilateral exercise involving the National Statistical Institutes of the participating countries, Eurostat and the OECD, which is known as Eurostat-OECD programme or European Comparison Programme (ECP). Across the world, regional PPP programs exist. These programs and the Eurostat-OECD PPP program are linked together at global level by the World Bank in the International Comparison Program (ICP), producing PPPs for nearly 200 countries across the world.
Equipment goods represent a large share of gross fixed capital formation, including machinery, electrical and optical equipment, transport equipment and software. The price survey on equipment goods is carried out every second year. This lot covers the survey to be carried out in 2025. Preparations for this survey start in 2024 while the survey validation will be closed in 2026. The work covers the survey in all 39 participating countries.
Construction represents a large share of gross fixed capital formation. It includes construction of residential and non-residential buildings and civil engineering works. Construction PPPs are based on prices for so-called "Bills of Quantities" (BoQs) which are detailed descriptions of fictitious building projects, each consisting of a list of items that have to be priced. The following BoQs are included in the surveys:
• Residential buildings
✓ Detached house
✓ Apartment
✓ Renovation of a house
• Non-residential buildings
✓ Light industrial building
✓ Office building
✓ Renovation of an office building
• Civil engineering works
✓ Asphalt road
✓ Resurface asphalt road