Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-07-03
Buyer: Directorate General for Maritime Policy (DGPM)
Country: PT
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 22114300 | 32533000 | 32534000 | 34712200 | 35631200
Estimated value: 237568.1 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: This PCP is carried out by DGPM appointed as lead procurer to coordinate and lead the joint procurement in the name and on behalf of the buyers group. Portuguese procurement law is applicable.
Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to buy R&D services to bridge innovative downstream Earth observation and copernicus enabled services for integrated maritime environment, surveillance and security
On 6.2.2018, a Contract Notice was published as part of the EU project MARINE-EO to purchase R and D services from a number of R and D providers in parallel (PCP procurement). The PCP procurement compared competing alternative solution approaches to address the following challenge: trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the following common challenge (i.e. a challenge faced by all the organizations in the buyers group): develop, test and validate a bundle of COPERNICUS-based services bringing incremental or radical innovations in the field of maritime awareness accompanied with “support” services that will standardize the way EO are used for maritime awareness in regards of operational, technological, semantic and legal interoperability issues. The procurement will be divided into the following lots, each corresponding to one sub-challenge:
The procurement was announced in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) with a phased approach, i.e. a Framework Agreement covering 3 R and D phases:
— R and D up to original development, validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations are carried out to progressively select the best competing solutions. The Contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
Sufficient amount of good quality tenders was received to award the planned amount of contracts for Lot 1.
The procurement was announced in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) with a phased approach, i.e. a Framework Agreement covering 3 R and D phases:
— R and D up to original development, validation and testing of a limited set of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations are carried out to progressively select the best competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
Sufficient amount of good quality tenders was received to award the planned amount of contracts for Lot 2.
The procurement is exempted from the EU public procurement directives (including the EU procurement remedies Directives 89/665/EEC and 92/13/EEC — see above) and the national laws that implement them.
Publication of this Notice in the Official Journal is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption by the Contracting Authority.
The deadlines for the review procedures at the bodies for review mentioned in IV.4.1) and IV.4.2) are: [As per EU Procurement Directive].


Winner: Planetek Hellas Etairia Periorismenis Euthinis (EPE)
Award value: 237568.1
Number of bids: 4