Survey vessels

Participation is open to all natural persons and firms (participating either individually or in a grouping-consortium of tenderers) originating from all countries of the world. A consortium may be permanent, legally established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All partners of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other partners) are jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority (CA). No more than one tender can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting a tender). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one tender, all tenders in which that person has participated will be excluded. In case of lots, the tenderers may submit only one tender per lot. Contracts will be awarded lot by lot and each lot will form a separate contract.

Grounds for exclusion

During the evaluation procedure and before taking the award decision, the CA ensures that there is no record of the successful tenderer, including consortium members, subcontractors or capacity providing entities, if any, in exclusion situations listed in Section 2.6.10.1 of the PRAG June 24, 2022, as well as in the EIB Guide to Procurement (GtP) for projects financed by the EIB September 2018 (https://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/guide_to_procurement_en.pdf), Section 1.5 (Conflict of Interest), and Section 3.6 (prohibited Conduct-Covenant of Integrity (CoI) – template available in EIB GtP Annex 3), anti-fraud policy of the EIB (https://www.eib.org/attachments/publications/eib_group_anti-fraud_policy_en.pdf) and Section 3.8 Environmental and Social Covenant (E&SC template is available in EIB GtP, Annex 7). The evaluation committee (EvC) will request the original Declaration of honour on exclusion criteria and selection criteria and copies of documentary evidence for exclusion and selection criteria (also signed covenants) from the potential successful tenderer. If upon verification, the EvC considers the submitted evidence not admissible, it will request the same evidence from the second-best ranked tenderer.

In the CoI, the tenderer is requested to self-declare all sanctions and/or exclusions (including any similar decision having the effect of imposing conditions on the tenderer or its subsidiaries or to exclude the said tenderer or its subsidiaries, such as temporary suspension, conditional non-exclusion, etc.) imposed by the European institutions or any multilateral development banks (including the WB Group, the African/Asian/ Inter-American Development Bank, EBRD or EIB), regardless of the date of issue and the expiration or not of such decisions and of the current status of any sanction and/or exclusion. Any omission or misrepresentation, made knowingly or recklessly, may be considered as fraud under the EIB Anti-Fraud Policy. The CA reserves the right to reject any offer presenting an inaccurate or incomplete CoI, and may cause the rejection of the offer for prohibited conduct. CoI and E&SC are to be signed by Consortium and each Consortium Member (including Consortium leader).

To obtain the procurement documents, a written request shall be sent to the email address mentioned in Section I.

Tender must be submitted in English exclusively to the CA in a sealed envelope to the address mentioned in Section I:

• Either by post or courier service, (the evidence shall be constituted by the postmark or the date of the deposit slip);

• Or hand delivered by the participant in person or agent directly to the premises of the CA in return for a signed and dated receipt (the evidence shall be constituted by this receipt).

Tenders arriving after the deadline for receipt will be returned unopened.