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Support to Water Statistics Production and Ecosystem Accounting (№28039821)

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Number: 28039821

Country: Luxembourg

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22-01-2024

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20240110European Institution/Agency or International OrganisationContract award noticeServicesOpen procedureEuropean Institution/Agency or International OrganisationNot applicableThe most economic tenderOtherECC03EC
  1. Section I
    1. Name and addresses
      European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Union (ESTAT), ESTAT.E.2 – Environmental Statistics and Accounts; SustaInable Development
      Luxembourg
      L-2920
      Luxembourg
      E-mail: [email protected]
    2. Type of the contracting authority:
      European institution/agency or international organisation
    3. Main activity:
      Other activity: Statistics
  2. Section II
    1. Scope of the procurement:
      1. Title:

        Support to Water Statistics Production and Ecosystem Accounting

        Reference number: ESTAT/2023/OP/0018
      2. Main CPV code:
        79330000, 79330000, 79330000
      3. Type of contract:
        Services
      4. Short description:

        This contract will be divided into two lots:

        — Lot 1: the main objective of lot 1 is high quality support to Eurostat"s annual collections of water statistics throughout the production cycle. The tenderer shall contribute to the preparation, smooth execution and follow-up of the data collection exercise, which is aimed at achieving high quality data sets of European water statistics;

        — Lot 2: the main objective is support on ecosystem accounting, in particular, preparation of methodological documents on ecosystem accounting for expert discussions, development of workflows and GIS (or other IT) tools to build ecosystem accounts and validate produced data, and providing methodological advice on an ad-hoc basis, to advance the implementation of ecosystem accounts in the EU in a well-coordinated and methodologically robust way.

      5. Information about lots:
        This contract is divided into lots: yes
      6. Total value of the procurement:
        Value excluding VAT: 1 083 552.85 EUR
    2. Description
      1. Title:

        Support to Water Statistics Production

      2. Additional CPV code(s):
        79330000
      3. Place of performance:
        Main site or place of performance:

        Contractor"s premises.

      4. Description of the procurement:

        The tender will cover maximum two periods of 2 years, each covered by a separate contract. The services to be purchased for the entire contract period are estimated to cover 416 person-days.

        As detailed in point 1.4.2.3 of the tender specifications, there are five tasks as follows:

        1. methodological support;

        2. support to the data collection;

        3. data validation;

        4. gap-filling and data analysis;

        5. maintenance of the data collection system.

        The aims of these tasks are:

        — Task 1: maintenance of the Water Statistics Manual and of methodological reports for reporting countries;

        — Task 2: to support the collection of national and regional water statistics, before, during and after the data collection phase;

        — Task 3: to thoroughly validate the statistical data reported by European countries according to validation rules agreed;

        — Task 4: to increase the value of the set of reported data through the filling of gaps and the discussion/development and calculation of indicators;

        — Task 5: to give advice for the maintenance and seamless functioning of the water statistics production systems based on their monitoring and analysis.

      5. Award criteria:
        Quality criterion - Name: Technical approach and methodology / Weighting: 50
        Quality criterion - Name: Work plan and timetable – overall planning / Weighting: 15
        Quality criterion - Name: Management arrangements – organisation of the work and resources / Weighting: 25
        Quality criterion - Name: Quality arrangements – quality control measure / Weighting: 10
        Price - Weighting: 30
      6. Information about options:
        Options: no
      7. Information about European Union funds:
      8. Additional information:
      9. Title:

        Support for Ecosystem Accounting

      10. Additional CPV code(s):
        79330000
      11. Place of performance:
        Main site or place of performance:

        Contractor"s premises.

      12. Description of the procurement:

        The tender will cover maximum three periods of 1 year, each covered by a separate contract. The services to be purchased for the entire contract period are estimated to cover 725 person-days.

        As detailed in point 1.4.2.3 of the tender specifications, there are three tasks as follows:

        1. methodological support to Eurostat and Member States;

        2. business solutions and procedures to build ecosystem accounts in Member States and at EU level;

        3. support to regular data collections.

        The aims of these tasks are:

        — Task 1:

        • provide lead support to the Task Force on ecosystem accounting to achieve its objectives as described above;

        • support Eurostat in finalising the methodological guidance for the new legal module;

        • provide timely, methodologically correct and practically applicable support on the compilation of ecosystem accounts to practitioners in EU Member States;

        • support Eurostat in methodological work on ecosystem accounting in international fora (e.g. the UN, UNECE);

        — Task 2:

        • continue supporting countries with business solutions that facilitate the development and production of ecosystem accounts including the automation of data preparation and data processing and ETL workflows to the extent possible, focusing on ecosystem services accounts, in physical and monetary terms and including both the supply and the use side of the accounts, in line with the legal module and SEEA EA framework;

        • enhance documentation of the business solutions to facilitate their use.

        • provide training to countries in using the business solutions and default data sources.

        • maintain the existing solutions implemented under the previous support contract and update them to new methodologies, data sources, models and new IT technologies and platforms, as needed;

        — Task 3: to support Eurostat in the collection of ecosystem accounts and to provide high quality, accurate and timely support for the data processing and validation.

      13. Award criteria:
        Quality criterion - Name: Technical approach and methodology / Weighting: 50
        Quality criterion - Name: Work plan and timetable – overall planning / Weighting: 15
        Quality criterion - Name: Management arrangements – organisation of the work and resources / Weighting: 25
        Quality criterion - Name: Quality arrangements – quality control measure / Weighting: 10
        Price - Weighting: 30
      14. Information about options:
        Options: no
      15. Information about European Union funds:
      16. Additional information:
  3. Section IV
    1. Description:
      1. Type of procedure:
        Open procedure
      2. Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system:
      3. Information about electronic auction:
      4. Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
        The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
    2. Administrative information:
      1. Previous publication concerning this procedure:
        Notice number in the OJ S: 2023/S 142-454106
      2. Information about termination of dynamic purchasing system:
      3. Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice:
  4. Section V
    1. Contract No: 2023.0390
      Lot No: 1
      Title:

      Support to Water Statistics Production

    2. Award of contract
      1. Date of conclusion of the contract: 2023-12-18
      2. Information about tenders:
        Number of tenders received: 2
        Number of tenders received from SMEs: 1
        Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
        Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
        Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
        The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no
      3. Name and address of the contractor:
        Artemis Information Management SA
        B36326
        27, boulevard Prince Henri
        Luxembourg
        L-1724
        Luxembourg
        The contractor is an SME: yes
      4. Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT):
        Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: 340 000.00 EUR
        Total value of the contract/lot: 339 100.00 EUR
      5. Information about subcontracting:

        Proportion: 2
        Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:

        To strengthen Artemis core team in the specific field. Specific methodological and practical knowledge in the subject matter, i.e. sound methodological expertise in water statistics.

  5. Section VI
    1. Additional information
    2. Procedures for review
      1. Review body
        General Court of the European Union
        Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
        Luxembourg
        L-2925
        Luxembourg
        Telephone: +352 4303-1
        E-mail: [email protected]
        Fax: +352 4303-2100
      2. Body responsible for mediation procedures

      3. Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

        You may submit any observations concerning the procurement procedure to the contracting authority using the contact means under I.1). If you believe that there was maladministration, you may lodge a complaint to the European Ombudsman within 2 years of the date when you became aware of the facts on which the complaint is based (see http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu). Within 2 months of notice of the award decision, you may launch an action for annulment of the award decision. Any request you may make and any reply from us, or any complaint for maladministration, will have neither the purpose nor the effect of suspending the time-limit for launching an action for annulment or to open a new period for launching an action for annulment. The body responsible for hearing annulment procedures is indicated in Section VI.4.1).


    3. Date of dispatch of this notice
      2024-01-10