Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-17
Buyer: Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO
Country: CH
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72314000: Data collection and collation services | 72316000: Data analysis services | 73100000 | 73110000 | 73300000
Submission deadline: 2020-10-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The survey is called menuCH-Kids and is intended to show who eats what, how much, when and where. Thanks to interviews and anthropometric measurements, data will be collected on food consumption, dietary and health behaviours in children and adolescents between 3 and 17 years of age. The consumption data will be recorded using 24h records and 24h recalls during a face-to-face interview (CAPI) and a telephone interview (CATI). In addition, a sample of spot urine and of venous blood will be taken from a subpopulation of 6- to 17-year olds (voluntary for the subjects) in order to better characterise the nutritional status and nutrient intake.
Option 03: Performance of additional laboratory analyses with the urine and blood samples obtained in OP01.
The verification of competences must be submitted absolutely complete and without restriction or modification in writing. If not complete, the tender offer will not be evaluated.
This proof of eligibility is to be submitted only upon request after the tender has been submitted and before the contract has been awarded: authenticated extract from the commercial register and extract from the debt collection register no older than 3 months when requested by the contracting authority. In the case of overseas tenderers, comparable and current official documents from the foreign country.
Note: the authority issuing the call for tenders conducts an electronic check of the extract from the central business names index (www.zefix.ch).
The tenderer confirms that it and the third parties commissioned by it (subcontractors and sub-suppliers) are in compliance with the procedural principles in accordance with the self-declaration form of the Federal Procurement Conference FPC.
In addition to the self-declaration form, tenderers with over 50 employees and their first-level subcontractors with over 50 employees each have to provide evidence of how the wage practice was checked.
The tenderer has sufficient expertise and experience to fulfil this mandate. It provides evidence of this experience by means of one or more references.
The tenderer has an experienced study director who is professionally skilled in the topic area of the present invitation to tender. The study director is the single point of contact (SPOC) and must have a good command of German, French and/or English. A deputy must be provided.
The tenderer has appointed a person with a good command of German, French or English who is responsible for the escalation of problems with the contracting authority and ensuring the delivery of the contractually agreed services. The same person may not act as study director and escalation officer.
The tenderer confirms that in connection with the delivery of the entire mandate it will use qualified specialists in the following areas, who can understand, read, speak and write one or more of the official languages (German, French and Italian):
The tenderer confirms that for conducting the interviews, and cleansing and preparing the food consumption data, it will recruit and employ nutrition specialists (with a minimum of a Bachelor’s in dietetics) who are familiar with Swiss culinary specialities and can understand, read, speak and write at least one of the following national languages: German, French or Italian. An adequate knowledge of English for training purposes would be an advantage.
The tenderer confirms that it will employ medical professionals familiar with the handling of children and adolescents for blood sampling.
The tenderer undertakes to replace employees as follows because of insufficient qualifications or for other reasons: