Reconfiguration of the LIFE - LIFE III Programme

Economic operators participating in the procedure for the conclusion of the present contract are required to perform an activity related to the subject matter of the contract. Economic operators established in a Member State of the European Union are required to be registered in one of the professional or trade registers maintained in their country of establishment or to satisfy any other requirement set out in Annex XI of Appendix A of Law 4412/2016. If economic operators are required to possess a special authorization or to be members of a specific organization to be able to provide the relevant service in their country of origin, the contracting authority may require them to prove that they possess such authorization or are members of such organization, or invite them to make a sworn declaration before a notary public regarding the exercise of the specific profession. In the case of economic operators established in a European Economic Area (EEA) Member State or in third countries that have ratified the GPA, or in third countries not covered by the preceding case and having concluded bilateral or multilateral agreements with the Union on public procurement procedures, they are required to be registered in corresponding professional registers. Economic operators established in Greece must be registered in the competent professional register, provided that, under the applicable legislation, their registration is required for the service to be awarded. In the case of an association of economic operators, the above requirement must be met by each individual member of the association. [para. 2.2.4 of the Tender Documents].

Regarding economic and financial standing for this procurement procedure, economic operators participating in this procurement procedure are required to have: • an average general annual turnover for the last three (3) financial years or the financial years during which the economic operator has been active, if fewer than three (2023-2024-2025), at least equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the estimated value of the contract to be awarded, excluding VAT and excluding the estimated value of options. In the case of an association of economic operators, the above requirements are met cumulatively by the members of the association. [para. 2.2.5 of the Call for Tenders].

Technical Capacity Economic operators participating in this procurement procedure are required to possess suitably documented and proven professional capacity in the implementation of projects of similar size and complexity to the Project under award. Specifically, within the last three (3)* years and up to the deadline for the submission of tenders herein, they are required to have successfully completed, or participated with a share equal to or greater than 50% (in cases where they participated as members of an association of companies) in: 1. two (2) or more completed service contracts, which individually or in combination cumulatively cover all of the following fields: • Design and Development/maintenance of an online Integrated Information System operating on public or private government cloud infrastructure, • Development of an online Integrated Information System in which financial and administrative data are generated and maintained, used by individual subsystems (Financial and Human Resources Management and Administrative Functions) for generating administrative acts and automated uploading and downloading to/from the Diavgeia system, • Utilization of open data / Provision of open Data via API, • Interoperability with third-party systems, • Reporting and business intelligence. At least one (1) contract from the above-mentioned relevant contracts must concern an information system managing more than 500,000 documents per year, given that more than 5,500,000 documents are uploaded annually to the Diavgeia system. At least one (1) contract from the above-mentioned relevant contracts must have a contract price, excluding VAT, at least equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the estimated value (excluding VAT) of the Contract under award, not including options, i.e., six hundred thousand euros (€600,000.00). (In case the project was implemented as a member of an association/consortium, only the price corresponding to the participation percentage shall be taken into account.) 2. At least one (1) contract covering the following fields: • web content aggregation combined with big data analytics, • data extraction using machine learning and/or artificial intelligence algorithms. 3. At least one (1) contract having as its primary or non-exclusive subject the migration/relocation of an information system of similar size and complexity to the present one to a public government cloud computing environment (e.g., Microsoft Azure Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), ensuring high system availability and responsiveness. In the case of an association/consortium of economic operators, the above requirements may be fulfilled cumulatively by the members of the association. *To ensure a satisfactory level of competition, details of contracts implemented prior to the last three years and not exceeding five (5) years from the date of the tender procedure may also be taken into account. [par. 2.2.6.1 of the Tender Document]. Professional Capacity – Project Team Economic operators participating in this procurement procedure are required to have a Project Team with personnel sufficient in number and skills for the effective execution of this contract, which must consist, on penalty of exclusion, of at least personnel with the skills mentioned in paragraph 2.2.6.2 of the Tender Document. [par. 2.2.6.2 of the Tender Document].