Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-07
Buyer: Banque de Developpement du Conseil de L'Europe/Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2021-05-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Guidelines on the internal procurement of services, supplies and works by the CEB https://coebank.org/en/about/policies-and-guidelines/guidelines-internal-procurement/
Framework Contract for the Provision of Consultancy Services to Support Information Technology Projects
The CEB is issuing the referenced public call for tenders in order to engage a pool of consulting companies through frameworks contracts with service providers who can deliver high quality IT consultancy services in specific areas as described in the terms of reference (available upon request at: tenders@coebank.org).
CEB premises — 55 avenue Kléber - F-75116 PARIS, France and/or any of the CEB’s IT recovery sites, as well as remote support, where applicable.
• assist in the implementation of IT projects (project governance, analysis of needs, specifications, communication and change management);
• assist in selecting an IT tool, platform or service (help in selection, business cases, scoping, defining needs and functionality);
• assist in performing process re-engineering; streamlining, optimising and standardising those processes;
The initial contract will be concluded for a period of three (3) years and may be extended one or several times, subject to performance, for a maximum period of one (1) year, without exceeding a total period of six (6) years.
CEB premises at 55, avenue Kléber, F-75116 PARIS, France and/or any of the CEB’s IT recovery sites, as well as remote support, where applicable.
• development and support of the ECM environments and applications (Content Services Platform, eDocs, and Digital Assets Management - DAM);
• business analysis of content management requirements and translation of these into technical specifications;
• development and support of the integration of ECM solutions (including integration via Software AG Enterprise service bus) with other CEB systems and platforms;
The initial contract will be concluded for a period of three (3) years and may be extended one or several times, subject to performance, for a maximum period of one (1) year, without exceeding a total period of six (6) years.
CEB premises at 55, avenue Kléber, F-75116 PARIS, France and/or any of the CEB’s IT recovery sites, as well as remote support, where applicable.

Eligibility requirements: The CEB, as a rule, requires suppliers to comply with the highest ethical standards during the selection procedure and contract execution. In accordance with these principles, the CEB: 1) shall reject a supplier’s tender where it establishes that the supplier engaged in corrupt, fraudulent, coercive or collusive practices to obtain the award of the contract; 2) shall reject a supplier's tender where it is aware that the supplier has been convicted by a final court decision of one of the following: fraud, corruption, money laundering, participation in a criminal organisation or any other unlawful activity; 3) may reject a supplier's tender where the latter: (a) is subject to bankruptcy or is being wound up, has suspended his business activities or is having his affairs administered by the courts, has entered into an arrangement with creditors, or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws or regulations; (b) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata; (c) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct established by any means available to the CEB; (d) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions or taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which the supplier is established or those of the country where the contract is to be performed; (e) following another tender procedure, has been declared by a court or an arbitration tribunal to be in serious breach of contract for failure to comply with his contractual obligations; (f) has been cross debarred by the Multilateral Development Banks having signed the Agreement for Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions dated 9 April 2010; (g) is guilty of misrepresentation in supplying the information requested by the CEB. As part of their offer, interested tenderers need to submit documentary proof or statements required under the law of the country in which the company (or each of the companies for consortia) is effectively established, to show that it is not in any of the exclusion situations listed in sections a), b), c) and d) above. This evidence, documents or statements must be dated, no more than 1 year before the date of submission of the tender. In addition, a statement must be furnished stating that the situations described in these documents have not changed since then. If the nature of the entity is such that it cannot fall into the exclusion situations and/or cannot provide the documents indicated above (for instance, national public administrations and international organisations), a declaration explaining this situation should be provided.