WRITTEN QUESTION P-0439/00 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (ELDR) to the Commission. European invitation to tender for EU contract for supply of gabion matting to Bolivia.
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Bolivia, EU aid, South America, aid to disaster victims, flood, invitation to tender, supplies contract

C 374 E/76

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

28.12.2000

(2000/C 374 E/088)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0439/00

by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (ELDR) to the Commission

(11 February 2000)

Subject: European invitation to tender for EU contract for supply of gabion matting to Bolivia

On 22 November 1999 a European tendering procedure (SCR-E/11095/D/S/BO) was published on the
TED Alert System concerning the supply of gabion matting and gabions to Bolivia for the project to
protect the town of Montero against flooding by the Pirai river. The tendering procedure was closed on
20 January 2000.

1.
Can the Commission inform me of the outcome of that invitation to tender? How many firms
participated? How many firms met the conditions for submitting tenders? What firm was awarded the
contract and at what price, and what is that firm(cid:146)s nationality?

2.
Can the Commission inform me why one of the conditions for the tender was that the materials
supplied must bear a (cid:145)certificate of origin(cid:146) from an EU country, a Mercosur or Andean Pact country, or
Bolivia or Chile? Is that condition in accordance with European tendering rules?

3.
Can the Commission provide me with a table showing the results of all tenders for the supply of
gabion matting and gabions under EU development programmes in Bolivia and the rest of South America
since 1992?

Can the Commission inform me of the budget entry under which the above project is being

4.
financed?

Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission

(9 March 2000)

1.
It has to be noted that the contracting authority, Searpi, and not the Commission is the authority
responsible for the receipt and evaluation of offers. The results of the tender are not available yet. The
tender opening session took place on 20 January 2000 and to date the beneficiary has not submitted for
the Commission(cid:146)s approval the evaluation report with the results of the examination of the offers and the
contract award proposal.

2.
According to Community procurement rules related to external aid, all supplies must originate in the
countries as defined in special conditions, Article I of the tender dossier (Member States, Bolivia, Pacto
Andino, Mercosur and Chili). Under Article XIV.4 the tenderer must indicate the origin of supplies. The
tenderer must present the certificate of origin to the contracting authority when the supplies arrive in
the recipient country (Article 1.10 of Part C (cid:145)Technical Annex(cid:146)).

3.

4.

Detailed statistics, up to this level, are not available.

Budget line B7-310.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-0446/00

by Christos Folias (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(24 February 2000)

Subject: Official languages and the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market

An appeal has been lodged with the EU Court of the First Instance against the Office for Harmonisation in
the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) in respect of the validity of the provisions of Regulation
40/94 (1) on the Community trade mark which provides that the languages of this Office are Spanish,
English, French, German and Italian and excludes all the other official languages of the European Union.