Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2021-08-03
Buyer: Inlecom Group BV and related companies
Country: BE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 79100000
Estimated value: 800000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-08-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Inlecom has, as co-ordinator and partner, applied for and won a number of EU Funded Horizon 2020 projects where each project has a requirement to file patents, wherein each project we are contractually obliged to confirm formal patent applications in various regions (e.g. EU , USA, Canada jurisdictions).
Inlecom requires external patent attorney expertise for the preparation, filing and prosecution of these patents deriving from the EU H2020 project
Legal work in respect of preparing, filing and prosecuting patents.  Opening date for applications 09:00 CET 02:08:2021, closing date for applications 16:00 CET 27:08:2021. Applicants should download and read all documentation and return completed quotations to tenders@inlecomsystems.com by the closing date stated.  The award will be made by 16:00 CET 24:09:2021.  The applicants will be informed as to whether they have been successful by email by 16:00 CET 30:09:2021
As a minimum the firm should be able to work in all the countries listed, either directly of by using a listed Agent of Record
The actual filing regions for each patent in each project will be discerned during the course of each project and in meetings with the respective inventors. Paying attention to patent filing interests in past projects, as well as to ensure a fair and equitable quotation process, we are asking each patent attorney to quote based on the following assumptions :
•	Cradle to grave costs for each patent up to and including formal granting/issuance, including all associated costs such as any required first round and subsequent prosecutions, patent office office-actions, etc.
Name of European funded project - ICT related patent application area - expected maximum number of patents
Rawmina - Integrated innovative systems and methods for Critical Raw Materials recovery from mines wastes in a circular economy context - 3
ZeroW - Systems and methods in Data spaces; Data-driven applications; Policy recommendations; Just transition; Food system transformation - 3
Probono - ICT systems and methods in the areas of Green Buildings instrumentation, analyses and GHG emission reduction - 6
The maximum budget allocated to the above will be €800,000. When completing the procurement pricing template, you will be required to provide a price per patent and the completion of this template is an important criteria.
The additional information including the important pricing templates are available at the url - https://inlecom.eu/group/tenders/ .
The procurement is related to H2020 projects listed in the Description of Procurement and the url - https://inlecom.eu/group/tenders/
It is important to refer to the additional information section of the document "Patent Quote request Letter" available at the url - https://inlecom.eu/group/tenders/
As a minimum the lead lawyer/partner should be able to demonstrate experience in patent work across a range of domains, and in particular the ICT related patent application areas mentioned in section "Description of the Procurement", with reference to examples of patents granted and jurisdictions worked in either directly or through associated law firms. All law firms that will be used as Agents of record will need to be listed together with the country they will cover.

Eligibility requirements: As a minimum the lead lawyer/partner should be able to demonstrate experience in patent work across a range of domains, and in particular the ICT related patent application areas mentioned in section "Description of the Procurement", with reference to examples of patents granted and jurisdictions worked in either directly or through associated law firms. All law firms that will be used as Agents of record will need to be listed together with the country they will cover. Further information about the staff who will be involved in the performance of the contract is not required and will not be assessed as a criteria.

Award value: 800000