FRAMEWORK CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF TRAVEL AGENCY SERVICES

INVITATION TO TENDER SATCEN OP/01/19

CONTRACT NOTICE 2019/S 110-267144

 

The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) plans to award a single framework contract for the provision of travel agency services relating to the business trips of its staff members.

The contractor is expected to provide travel agency services every working day of SatCen, from 8:00 to 19:00 h. The required services include:

(i) booking, ticketing, amendments and cancellations of transportation arrangements (flights, train, bus, ferry tickets, car rentals, etc.) in Spain, Europe and worldwide;

(ii) hotline services outside SatCen's working days and working hours;

(iii) notification of any travel-related alerts;

(iv) statistics on the services requested.

The services will be performed at the contractor's own premises.

 

Type of procedure:

• Open Procedure

 

Business sector (CPV):

• 63510000: Travel agency and similar services
• 63516000: Travel management services

 

References:

Launch date

04/06/2019

Publication of tender documents

10-06-2019

Deadline for submitting questions

23/08/2019

Deadline for submitting tenders

06/09/2019 - 23:59 h. CET

Date for opening tenders

17/09/2018 - 12:00 h. CET

 

Procurement documents:

Invitation to tender

Annex I: Tender Specifications

• Appendix I.1 – SatCen public holidays for 2019
• Appendix I.2 - Declaration on honour
• Appendix I.3 - Statement of average annual turnover
• Appendix I.4 – Economic offer template

Annex II: Draft Framework Contract

 

Contacts between the SatCen and the tenderers may take place only in exceptional circumstances and under the following conditions only:

Before the date of dispatch of tenders:

At the request of tenderers, the SatCen may provide additional information solely for the purpose of clarifying procurement documents and the nature of the contract. Any requests for clarifications or additional information must be made by e-mail to procurement.satcen@satcen.europa.eu. Both the requests for clarifications or additional information and the responses provided by SatCen will be published on the SatCen Website:

https://www.satcen.europa.eu/Procurement/ongoing-calls-tender.

Requests received less than six (6) working days before the closing date for submission of tenders will not be processed.

SatCen may, on its own initiative, inform interested parties of any error, inaccuracy, omission or any other clerical error in the text of the procurement documents. This information will be published on the SatCen Website:

https://www.satcen.europa.eu/Procurement/ongoing-calls-tender.

The website will be updated regularly and it is the responsibility of potential tenderers to check for updates and modifications during the tendering period.

After the dispatch of tenders:

The Contracting Authority may contact the tenderer if any clarification is required or if obvious clerical error(s) in the tender need(s) to be corrected.