Proposal to negotiate, without competitive tendering, the renewal of two blanket purchase contracts for the supply of programmable logic controllers and fieldbus equipment

This document concerns the renewal of two blanket purchase contracts for the supply of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and fieldbus equipment for the CERN accelerators, technical services and experiments. The Finance Committee is invited to agree to the negotiation of the renewal of two blanket purchase contracts with SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (FR) and SIEMENS SUISSE (CH), without competitive tendering, for the supply of PLCs and fieldbus equipment for an estimated total amount covering both contracts not exceeding 2 000 000 Swiss francs per year for a period of three years. The firms have indicated the following distribution by country of the contract value covered by this adjudication proposal: - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC: FR-100%, - SIEMENS SUISSE: DE-100%.