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No C 226 / 6 Official Journal of the European Communities 2 . 9 . 92

III

( Notices )

# COMMISSION

Value II programme — Open procedure

( 92 / C 226 / 04 )

1 . Awarding authority : Commission of the European

Communities, Directorate-General XIII, Telecom ­
munications, information industries and innovation,
Directorate D, Administrative Unit ' Promoting
exploitation of Community research and techno ­
logical development ' ( XIII / D.3 ), bitiment Jean
Monnet C 4 / 07, L-2920 Luxembourg .

Tel . ( 00 352 ) 43 01-45 33 / 44 06 .

2 . ( a ) Award procedure : Invitation to tender, open

procedure .

( b )

3 . ( a ) Delivery to : As in 3 ( b ).

( b ) Goods : At its meeting of 29 . 4 . 1992, the Council

of the European Communities adopted a
Decision on the dissemination and exploitation
of knowledge resulting from the specific
programmes of research and technological devel ­
opment of the Community ( hereinafter called
Value II ).

In particular, this Decision foresees the
implementation of a centralized action for the
dissemination and exploitation of knowledge
resulting from Community activities which
provides, on the one hand the necessary
continuity for some of the measures carried out
under the Value Programme while, on the other,
introducing new topics, one of these being the
setting-up of a network of relay centres in the
Member States .

While giving full consideration to local needs
and circumstances, the following activities, inter
alia, may be undertaken by the relay centres :

the dissemination of information on Community
programmes and calls for proposals ;

identification of opportunities for participation
in Community R&D programmes, and general
guidance to candidates in the preparation of
proposals ;

facilitating the interpretation and dissemination
of Community programme results for target
audiences and local firms ;

promotion of the exploitation of the research
results with potentially interested enterprises ;

assistance to organizations which have produced
results in the identification of exploitation
opportunities at a European level and market
research possibilities ;

providing information about specialized agencies
dealing with intellectual property and legal
protection of results ;

providing information on possibilities for
financial support .

The purpose of this invitation to tender is to
draw-up a contract with one ( or several ) external
organizations which should provide external
staff with the following qualifications ( no
contracts shall be entered into with tenderers
proposing to work as self employed staff ) :

Expert / Consultant, with university degree and at
least 5 years of relevant professional experience
as technical or management consultant, in
industry or in the dissemination / exploitation of
research results ;

Application Programmer : with basic studies in
computer science and at least 5 years experience
in electronic mail, database management and / or
computer applications ;

Assistant with a good knowledge of multilingual
secretarial duties .

In the first stage, 3 experts / consultants, 1
application programmer and 1 assistant are
needed . This team might be expanded at a later
stage to a maximum of 8 persons .

The abovementioned personnel will provide
external technical expertise under the direct
guidance and responsibility of the Commission,
for the setting-up of the relay centre network .

The detailed description of the activities to be
carried out by these personnel are further
specified in the tender documents, which can be
obtained from the Commission .

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The personnel will be required to carry out the
work in Luxembourg, under one of the
following hypothesis :

( b ) Date, time and place : Tenders will be opened

within ten days following the deadline given in
6(a ).

hypothesis No 1 : the Commission provides the 8 . Deposits and
premises and equipment, it bears the cost of tele ­ are required .
communications and provides for office
equipment ; 9 . Financing

8 . Deposits and guarantees : No deposits or guarantees

9 . Financing and payment : The proposed contract will

hypothesis No 2 : the work is carried out outside
the Commission, but in Luxembourg . The
contractor must have the necessary infra ­
structure, as specified in the tender documents ;

Not being able to comply with hypothesis No 2,
should not prevent a company from tendering .

( c ), ( d )

4 .

5 . ( a ) Documents from : Interested parties are strongly

advised to obtain from the Commission a
complete dossier of information on the
procedures for the present invitation to tender,
including a mandatory application form .

( b ) Requests not later than : 1 . 10 . 1992 .

( c )

6 . ( a ) Deadline for receipt of tenders : 8 . 10 . 1992 .

( b ) Address : As in 1 .

( c ) Language(s ): One of the languages of the
European Communities .

10 . Legal form in case of group bidders : Public or

private organisations constitued as legal entities in
one of the Member States of the Community ( e.g.
technology transfer and exploitation agencies,
service companies, consultanty firms ).

11 . Qualifications : Tenderers must supply the CVs of

their proposed personnel and summary records of
the three past years .

12 . Tenders may lapse after : 6 months .

13 . Award criteria ( other than price ): Financial terms of

the tender expressed in ECU and man / months work .

Qualifications of the proposed personnel .

14 . Other information : Further information, together

with the information dossier, may be obtained from
the address in 1 .

15 . Notice postmarked : 26 . 8 . 1992 .

be for a period of 1 year, with the possibility of
annual renewals for the next 2 years, initially under
the Value II Programme ( see point 3 ) which runs
until 31 . 12 . 1994, and thereafter under the dissemi ­
nation and exploitation activities to be included in
the fourth framework programme, in application of
Art . 130.G of the Treaty .

7 . a ) 16 . Notice received on : 26 . 8 . 1992 .