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In order to fulfil its tasks the Agency conducts research collecting relevant primary and secondary data and contextual information from EU Member States, and any candidate countries participating as observers, and analyses them in order to develop policy relevant comparative reports for its stakeholders, EU institutions and EU Member States. The Agency’s Scientific Committee guides the work to ensure quality.
The contractor(s) will carry out the work on the basis of specific guidelines and templates provided by FRA ensuring the highest scientific quality.
In view of this year’s upcoming open call for tenders of FRANET, which will cover the data collection and research services on fundamental rights issues in all EU Member States, the duration of the present framework contract shall not exceed 16 months.
The Agency may use the FRANET multidisciplinary research network to collect data at national level. The current FRANET network will expire towards November 2022 and the Agency intends to publish this year an open call for tender to renew the FRANET network for a 4-year-period after October 2022. Since there is currently no FRANET framework contractor for Sweden, the framework contract subject of this negotiated procedure is planned to bridge the time until the new FRANET network starts and covers services only until November 2022, which is when the current FRANET network expires.
Selection criteria:
1. Evidence of economic and financial capacity
Candidates must have the necessary economic and financial capacity to perform this contract until its end. In order to prove their capacity, candidates must prove an average yearly turnover of the last two financial years above EUR 70,000.
2. Evidence of professional capacity
Candidates must propose a project team consisting of one Project Manager, one Senior Expert, and Experts (at least one legal expert, at least one expert in social sciences, at least one expert on qualitative social fieldwork research and at least one interviewer), and one English language editor, meeting the minimum qualifications and professional experience, as specified below.
Profile
Minimum educational qualifications
Project Manager
· University degree
· Proficiency in English (level C1)
· Proficiency in Swedish (level C2)
· 5 years of proven experience as project manager in research projects gained in Sweden
Senior Expert
· Postgraduate university degree
· At least seven years of experience in human rights academic research gained in Sweden
· At least five scientific publications in national language or any EU language (e.g. articles in academic journals or books or peer reviewed books by academic publishers) relevant to Sweden. Relevance of the publications to Sweden should be briefly explained in the expert’s grid. Titles, dates, type of publication, publisher, place of publication, ISBN number (if available) must be provided. A minimum of two English abstracts of such publications must be provided in electronic format text-searchable pdf or via a hyperlink.
Legal Expert(s)
· At least two scientific publications in national language or any EU language (e.g. articles in academic journals or books or peer reviewed books by academic publishers) relevant to Sweden. Relevance of the publications to Sweden should be briefly explained in the expert’s grid. Titles, dates, type of publication, publisher, place of publication, ISBN number (if available) must be provided. A minimum of one English abstract of such publications must be provided in electronic format text-searchable pdf or via a hyperlink.
Expert(s) in social sciences
· At least two scientific publications in national language or any EU language (e.g. article in academic journals or books or peer reviewed books by academic publishers) relevant to the Sweden. Relevance of the publications to Sweden should be briefly explained in the expert’s grid. Titles, dates, type of publication, publisher, place of publication, ISBN number (if available) must be provided. A minimum of one English abstract of such publications must be provided in electronic format text-searchable pdf or via a hyperlink.
Social Expert on fieldwork research
· Proven evidence of participation in at least two social qualitative research projects, where the expert was responsible for or carried out qualitative fieldwork research
· At least two scientific publications in national language or any EU language (e.g. article in peer reviewed academic journals or books or peer reviewed books by academic publishers) relevant to qualitative research. Relevance of the publications to the qualitative research should be briefly explained in the expert’s grid. Titles, dates, type of publication, publisher, place of publication, ISBN number (if available) must be provided. A minimum of one English abstract of such publications (relevant to social qualitative research) must be provided in electronic format text-searchable pdf or via a hyperlink.
Interviewer(s)
· Independent user in English (level B2)
· Proven evidence of experience in at least two research projects, where the interviewer was responsible for conducting and administering qualitative/quantitative interviews and/or focus group discussions.
Language Editor
· Proficiency in English (level C2)
· 3 years proven experience as English language editor; a minimum of two short examples of edited work in English must be provided in electronic format text-searchable pdf or via a hyperlink.
Candidates will be required to prove at least 2 similar (in scope and complexity) projects/contracts completed in the last three (3) years preceding the tender submission deadline.
No documents proving the fulfilment of these criteria are requested at this stage.
Participation in this negotiated procedure for a middle 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) until 07/05/2021 (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.
