EU solidarity with Ukraine

Call for tenders' details

Title:
Secretariat of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
Contracting authority:
European Commission, DG ENV+CLIMA
TED publication date:
30/03/2013
Time limit for receipt of tenders:
17/05/2013
Status:
Closed
Status
22/04/2013
25/04/2013
English (en)
Question details
Variuous clarifications
1.Who was in charge of choosing EBAE Promoters? Could you please supply the list of present EBAE Promoters? 2. Is the EBAE Handbook the only document available to national jurors and applicant companies? 3. Is the EBAE mailbox provided by a different contractor or creation and maintenance of such mailbox should be foreseen in the offer? 4. Are the national award schemes organized according to a common timetable and quality standards or these are independent schemes not regulated by the European Commission? 5. Will the contractor be in contact with the national jurors or only with European ones? 6. Is there any financial award for the winners? 7. What are the available features of the existing online Registration and Evaluation Platform? Could you please specify what do you understand by “maintain and update the existing online Registration and Evaluation Platform”? 8. Are there any documents available from previous evaluation on efficiency and effectiveness of the EBAE scheme (if such evaluation was previously carried out)?
25/04/2013
1 - The Contractor is in charge of proposing Promoters, but this activity has been dormant since 2011. The last available list of Promoters (ie 2011) has just been uploaded to the document library. 2 - No, the EBAE handbook is available to the jurors and national coordinators, not the applicant companies. 3 - The mailbox is provided by this contractor and creation and maintenance should be foreseen in this Offer. 4 - These are independent schemes, but in order for applications from various countries to go forward to the European level awards, the local level competitions are organised in such a timetable so that their winners are known on time to enter the EU level competition and they use standard European application forms. 5 - The contractor will be in contact only with the European level Jurors 6 - No 7a - Available features: • Autorisation and authentication • Platform for the national coordinators • Platform for the companies • Platform for the jury • Back office for the Secretariat 7b - It means that the platform must be functioning correctly so that it can be used in the new edition and, should there be any changes in the functioning of the scheme decided (eg change in number of categories) durning the duration of this contract, the system must be updated to accomodate for them. However,for the purpose of preparing the financial offer, the tenderer may assume that there will not be fundamental changes in the functioning of the scheme. 8 - No