10. 3.90 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 61/3 
Commission communication concerning an invitation to tender for a survey on alcohol and 
tobacco among young Europeans 
(90/C 61/03) 
1. Subject 
Within the framework of the 'Europe against cancer' 
programme ('), the Commission of the European 
Communities proposes to have carried out in June 1990 
in the 12 Member States, a survey among young people 
— boys and girls — aged 11 to 15 years. 
This survey will be conducted by means of an oral ques­
tionnaire containing 30 to 40 units of questions, each 
unit comprising a column, to which will be added 15 
questions identifying the persons questioned. There will 
be no telephone interviews or interviews carried out in 
schools. 
The questionnaire will cover the attitudes and behaviour 
of young people towards the consumption of tobacco 
products and alcoholic drinks. 
The firms tendering will have to specify the selection 
method they propose to use and the regions of national 
territory which will actually be covered by the survey. 
The number of ybung people to be questioned is set 
between 9 000 and 10 000 for the whole of the 
Community. 
2. Terms of the contract 
One firm will be made responsible for the thematic and 
methodological concept of the survey, the preparation of 
questionnaires, international coordination of interviews, 
presentation of national harmonized results, statistical 
analyses and the drafting of a general report of some one 
hundred pages, not including the annexes. 
Each of the 12 firms taking part in the survey, as well as 
the firm responsible for the international coordination, 
should be well-known and have had practical experience 
of international surveys. The firms' reputation will be 
assessed in particular by reference to membership of their 
management in the European Society for Opinion and 
Market Research (ESOMAR). 
The Commission would prefer an ad hoc survey, in other 
words, a survey involving no clients other than itself. 
Failing this, the Commission wishes to be informed, 
before conclusion of the contract, of the possibility of 
the presence of other clients in the same survey and the 
nature of the questions which would be asked for those 
clients. 
The firm responsible for the overall works will have to 
make known, when submitting its tender, the nature of 
its legal or other links with the participating under­
takings and the duration of their past cooperation in 
international surveys. 3. Deadline 
The raw data should be presented no later than 
31 August 1990. 
A detailed draft report should be presented no later than 
15 September 1990. 
The final report, in one of the official languages of the 
Community, with a translation into English or French, 
should be submitted no later than 31 December 1990. 
4. Presentation of tenders 
Firms wishing to participate in this invitation to tender 
are invited to submit their detailed tenders, with figures, 
to the following address; 
Commission of the European Communities, 
Directorate-General for Employment, Industrial 
Relations and Social Affairs 
For the attention of Mr. Antonio Rodrigues 
(J37 1/33), 
rue de la Loi, 200, 
B-1049 Bruxelles. 
Tenders should be mailed by registered post. This must 
be done by 30 March 1990 at the latest, the postmark 
being proof of the date of dispatch. 
The tender must be placed inside two sealed envelopes. 
The inner envelope addressed to the department referred 
to above, should be marked as follows: 'Not to be 
opened by the internal mail department'. 
Self-adhesive envelopes, which may be opened and 
resealed without leaving any trace, may not be used. 
The tender must be drawn up in triplicate. 
Tender price must be quoted in ecus. 
The tenders, which will be submitted in any official 
language of the Community, must be headed by a 
summary of some 150 words. A translation of the tender 
into English or French would be much appreciated. 
Tenderers should attach to their reply to this invitation a 
complete set of documents making it possible to assess 
their technical and financial capacity to undertake work 
of this type, and a description of the equipment available 
to the firm responsible for coordination, the services that 
can be provided and references relating to similar work. 
The firms will be selected in the light of economic and 
technical criteria established by the Commission. 
The tenderers will be informed of the outcome of their 
submissions. 
O OJ No C 184, 23. 7. 1986; OJ No C 50, 26. 2. 1987; 
OJNoC 164, 1. 7. 1989, p. 11.