Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-11-19
Region: BE100
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000
Estimated value: 4050000 EUR
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: Multiple framework contract to provide foreign policy expertise in the field of:
- Lot 1: Foreign policy issues
- Lot 2: EU Enlargement, Eastern Neighborhood, Northern policies, non-EU European countries, EEA and Russia
- Lot 3:  Southern Neighborhood and Greater Middle East 
- Lot 4: Sustainable development and humanitarian aid
- Lot 5:  Security and Defense 
- Lot 6: Trade 
- Lot 7: Human Rights and Democracy
Horizontal Foreign Policy Issues
•	Multilateralism, including EU relations with multilateral organisations and groupings such as UN, OSCE, G7, G20;
•	Geopolitics;
•	CFSP, planning and adoption, implementation incl. Global strategy and foreign policy aspects of the Strategic Compass), strategic culture, diplomacy, EEAS, EUDELs, EUSRs, financing aspects, sanctions policy;
•	EU inter-institutional relations and dynamic of external relations incl. parliamentary scrutiny of NDICI-Global Europe and IPA III and other funding instruments, e.g. geopolitical aspects of infrastructural investment - Global Gateway, EU consular policy/ crisis response;
•	external dimensions of energy, space, and other internal policies;
•	climate diplomacy, ocean diplomacy, cultural and science diplomacy, water diplomacy, geopolitical aspects of health strategy and diplomacy;
•	mediation, conflict prevention and reconciliation;
•	regional confidence building and security architecture(s);
•	Economic and Investment Plans;
•	parliamentary diplomacy;
•	Enlargement policy;
•	The European Neighbourhood Policy: Horizontal aspects;
Global Partners
•	This lot covers the following regions:
o	Asia - Pacific: 
	South Asia (incl. Afghanistan); 
	Central Asia (including Mongolia); 
	South-East Asia; 
	East Asia (including China, Taiwan, Japan, Koreas);
	Australia, New Zealand;
	Indian & Pacific oceanic regions (including Indo-Pacific) ;
o	Africa:
	Western Africa & Sahel & Sub-Saharan Africa;
	Central & Eastern Africa & Horn of Africa;
	Southern Africa;
o	Americas:
	North America, incl. the USA, Canada;
	Central America;
	South America;
•	The following issues should be covered for regions in this lot
o	Political relations and foreign policy aspects;
o	Continent-wide and regional organisations and groups,
o	Implementation of EU external financing instruments;
o	Human rights and democracy promotion;
o	Energy, environment and climate issues;
o	Socio-economic and gender issues;
o	Trade and economic issues;
o	Security and defence issues;
•	Candidate countries;
•	Other non-EU European countries;
•	Western Balkans and Turkey;
•	The Black Sea Synergy;
•	Developments in and EU relations with Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan;
•	Developments in Russia and EU-Russia relations;
•	Northern Dimension, Baltic and Barents cooperation and polar policies:  Arctic and Antarctic;
•	Developments in, and EU relations with, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein;
•	Implementation of EU financial instruments in the regions covered by this lot;
•	Human rights and democracy promotion in countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Energy, environment and climate issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Socio-economic and gender issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Trade and economic issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Security and defence issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	EU bilateral and multilateral relations with the Mediterranean and the Middle East; country-specific and regional issues;
•	Maghreb, Mashreq, Israel, Palestine, the Arab Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan;
•	Middle East peace process;
•	European Neighbourhood Policy in the southern Mediterranean (horizontally and bilaterally);
•	Implementation of EU financial instruments in the regions covered by this lot;
•	Intercultural dialogue, Islam;
•	External aspects of EU migration policies;
•	Arab League, Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Gulf Cooperation Council, Union for the Mediterranean, and other regional/multilateral organisations;
•	Human rights and democracy promotion in countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Energy, environment and climate issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Socio-economic and gender issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Trade and economic issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Security and defence issues in relation to countries and regions covered by this lot;
•	Governance: political situation in developing countries; democratisation and electoral process; civil society; human rights, regional and local authorities; regional organisations; fragile states; conflict prevention and peace keeping; migration and refugees; economic governance; public financial management; budget transparency, natural resources good governance; effective parliamentary accountability;
•	Economic development: economic situation in developing countries, sub regions and regions; capacity-development; agricultural development and food security; fisheries; industrial development; infrastructure; promoting SMEs; sustainable tourism; role and potential of ICTs and new technologies; role of trans-national corporations, debt and financial resilience in developing countries;
•	Environment and climate change: implementation of the Paris Agreement; water management; climate change impact and adaptation strategies in developing countries; energy and sustainable management of natural resources; global environmental governance: climate change and resources; opportunities and challenges of green technologies in developing countries;
•	Social and human development: social situation in developing countries (including inequality and equal opportunities); education (including technical and vocational training); health (including population policy and reproductive health); children/youth and development;
•	Women and development: gender discrimination (social, political, economic), women’s rights and development politics, female leadership in developing countries;
•	Displacement, migration and development: Climate Change and displacement; conflict and displacement, impact of migration and displacement on developing countries; external aspects of EU migration policies;
•	International development cooperation: Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals, financing for development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda), aid modalities and aid effectiveness (Paris Declaration); international aid architecture; international financial institutions and development; NGOs, civil society and development aid; development education and awareness; new development actors (private foundations); South-South cooperation; emerging powers (such as the BRICS) and their own cooperation schemes;
•	Trade: trade relations with developing countries, including Economic Partnership Agreements (Samoa Agreement); GSP; Aid for trade; trade in commodities (raw materials and energy); fisheries agreements, global trade and food security, crisis resilience of global trade and developing countries, sustainable development in trade agreements;
•	European development cooperation policy, instruments and actors: European Consensus on Development; policy coherence for development; NDICI-Global Europe; Global Gateway, EFSD+, EIB lending;  
•	Humanitarian aid and disaster relief(including food aid); climate change-related threats; international humanitarian aid cooperation; long-term assistance (LRRD strategies); international humanitarian aid capacity development, crisis resilience capacity development; new humanitarian donors; European Aid regulation; European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid; European Civil Protection Mechanism (including underlying instruments);


Number of bids: 8