Proposal for the award of a contract for provision of desktop computing services

This document concerns the award of a contract for the provision of desktop computing services. Following a market survey carried out among 102 firms in sixteen Member States, a call for tenders (IT-3163/IT) was sent on 25 July 2003 to nine firms and three consortia in four Member States. By the closing date, CERN had received eight tenders from six firms and two consortia in three Member States. The Finance Committee is invited to agree to the negotiation of a contract with SERCO (NL), the lowest bidder after alignment, for the provision of desktop computing services for a total amount not exceeding 6 500 000 Swiss francs covering an initial period of three years starting on 1 June 2004, subject to revision for inflation from 1 June 2006. The contract will include options for two one-year extensions beyond the initial three-year period. The firm has indicated the following distribution by country of the contract value covered by this adjudication proposal: NL - 100%.