03 October 2024

Negotiated procedure for a low value contract: Collecting data online on manifestations of hate

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D-SE-24-T08
Negotiated procedure
Given its mandate to collect comparable data on fundamental rights issues, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA or the Agency) seeks to collect online data on selected fundamental rights issues to complement upcoming results from its EU large-scale surveys. FRA has conducted several EU wide surveys on topics such as migrants and their descendants living in the EU, violence against women, Jews, and Roma.

Open until :

18 October 2024 17:00
Publication date
03 October 2024

To support this endeavour, FRA intends to conclude a low value contract to gather and analyse online data – using an existing online data collection tool to be suggested by the candidate – related to manifestations of hate online.

The contractor will be requested to collect and analyse online content on hate speech, harassment and incitement to violence targeted at women and at least two ethnic and/or minority groups, which are covered in FRA’s surveys. The data collection should cover at least four EU languages, including two widely spoken (e.g. German, Spanish, Italian, English) and two less widely spoken languages over a period of six months. The candidates will propose the ethnic/minority groups for the online data collection, which should correspond to groups covered in FRA’s surveys, as well as the selected languages in their offer. Results should be presented to FRA in brief analytical reports and machine-readable tables of aggregated data.

Candidates will be requested to propose in their technical offer an existing online data collection tool that allows to search very large online social media platforms, among those designated as such by the Digital Services Act (DSA) which they will use during the implementation of the contract. The tool proposed should collect data on online discourse and online hate on very large online social media platforms in multiple EU languages, allowing for quantitative analysis. The tool should comply with EU data protection regulations. The duration of the contract will be ten months.

Technical and professional capacity

The contractor shall propose one or more experts meeting at least the minimum selection criteria below:

The expert team members should meet the following profiles (both profiles 1 and 2 can be covered by one expert) – which will be assessed based on the information provided in the CV:

1. Project manager

  • Education: University degree in relevant field (at least bachelor’s degree or equivalent)
  • Professional experience:   
    - A minimum of three (3) years of proven work experience in managing projects, of which at least 1 year in the field of online content moderation or collection and analysis of data online.
  • Language: Excellent knowledge of English (Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level C1).

2. Data science expert

  • Education: University degree in relevant field (at least Bachelor degree or equivalent)
  • Professional experience:   
    - Experience in the area of data science or related fields, proven by at least two (2) years of work/academic experience.  
    - Experience of collecting data for hate speech related analysis from online platforms, proven by one (1) publication or one (1) project carried out in the past 3 years.
  • Languages: Good knowledge of English (Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level B2).

No documents proving the fulfilment of these criteria are requested at this stage. Participation in this negotiated procedure for a low value contract is open to natural and legal persons falling within the scope of the EU Treaties (this includes all economic operators established in the European Union) and to all natural and legal persons established in a third country which has a special agreement with the Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement. FRA is not part of the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) concluded within the World Trade Organisation. Therefore, the procurement procedure is not open to candidates from GPA countries.

If you would like to participate in this negotiated procedure, please register your interest by e-mail to procurement@fra.europa.eu, including your contact details (name, organisation, address, country and e-mail) before 18/10/2024 (17:00 CEST [GMT +02:00]).

Please note that registration of interest to participate in the above-mentioned procedure does not give rise to any legitimate expectations to be invited.