Proposal for the award of blanket contracts for the supply of Intel-based desktop PCs, display monitors and portable PCs

This document concerns the award of blanket contracts for the supply of the three following categories of equipment for the period 2001-2004: a) desktop PCs (complete PC systems but without display monitors), b) display monitors (conventional CRTs or flat screen LCDs) and c) portable PCs (also called notebooks or laptops). Following a market survey carried out among 41 firms in fourteen Member States, an invitation to tender (IT-2692/IT) was sent on 19 May 2000 to 12 firms and three consortia, each consisting of two firms, in five Member States. By the closing date, CERN had received seven tenders, all from the Swiss subsidiaries of the firms and consortia. The Finance Committee is invited to agree to the negotiation of - blanket contracts with VOBIS (CH), ELONEX (CH) and FUJITSU-SIEMENS (CH), the three lowest bidders complying with the specification, for the supply of Desktop PCs; - blanket contracts with VOBIS (CH), SYNOPTIC (CH) and ELONEX (CH), the three lowest bidders offering display monitors manufactured in the Member States, for the supply of Display Monitors; - blanket contracts with PORTABLE SHOP (CH), DAREST & SUNSET (CH), FUJITSU-SIEMENS (CH) and MEDASYS-HEWLETT PACKARD (CH), the four lowest bidders complying with the specification, for the supply of Portable PCs. The above-mentioned blanket contracts will replace the existing contracts with VOBIS, ELONEX and HEWLETT-PACKARD. In the interest of flexibility and of maintaining competition in a rapidly evolving market, it is proposed to have the possibility of placing orders with any of the approved suppliers for each category while remaining within an overall annual ceiling of 7 000 000 Swiss francs. The firms have indicated the following distribution by country of the contract value covered by this adjudication proposal: - Supply of Desktop PCs: VOBIS DE-100%, ELONEX GB-100% and FUJITSU-SIEMENS DE-100%. - Supply of Display Monitors: VOBIS DE-100%, SYNOPTIC GB-80%, JP-20% and ELONEX NL-100%. - Supply of Portable PCs: PORTABLE SHOP GB-100%, DAREST & SUNSET IE-100%, FUJITSU-SIEMENS DE-100% and MEDASYS-HEWLETT PACKARD FR-100%.