EEA/ITS/03/001 - Local area network services

Framework contract. Service category: 7.

Name given to contract: Hardware, software and consultancy services for the local area network (LAN) at the European Environment Agency.

Reference number attributed: EEA/ITS/03/001.

Description of contract:

to support the European Environment Agency in maintaining and upgrading its local area network (LAN) by providing:

- hardware and software required for maintaining the existing network installation and possible expansion of it;

- consulting services for maintaining, monitoring, performance tuning and security configuration of EEA's network;

- hardware and software support services based on pre-defined response times.

NUTS: DK000, DK001.

European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, DK-1050 Copenhagen K.

legal status:

copy of documents confirming the tenderer's:

- inclusion in a trade register,

and/or

- VAT registration;

financial capacity:

evidence of economic and financial capacity shall be furnished by one or more of the following documents:

- appropriate statements from banks or evidence of professional risk indemnity insurance,

- the presentation of balance sheets or extracts from balance sheets for at least the last two years for which accounts have been closed, where publication of the balance sheet is required under the company law of the country in which the economic operator is established.

Exclusion cases: the tenderer shall provide evidence that he/she is not in the situation described in Article 2.2 of the Agency's general terms and conditions applicable to contracts. The evidence shall be a recent certificate issued by the competent authority of the country concerned. Where no such certificate is issued it may be replaced by a sworn, or failing that, a solemn statement made before a judicial or administrative authority, a notary, or a qualified professional body in his/her country of origin or provenance;

technical capacity:

provision of evidence in the tender documents:

- that the business activity of the company is relevant from the standpoint of the task in question by listing the principal services provided and supplies delivered in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, public or private,

- of relevant knowledge, by enclosing CVs of the staff proposed for delivery of the consultancy services,

- of the average annual manpower and the number of managerial staff of the tenderer in the last three years,

- of ability to deliver the services at EEA's location in Copenhagen,

- of ability to repair or replace faulted equipment based on that the network should have a minimum downtime of 4 hours during office hours (08:00-17:00).

Type of procedure: open procedure.

Contract duration:

the winning contractor will be awarded a framework contract for four years on the condition that the criteria in the call for tender are constantly met.

The first specific agreement will be awarded for a period of one year on signature of the framework contract.