Frontex, as an EU Agency, applies procurement procedures prescribed in the EC Financial Regulation (Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities, as last amended), Title V Procurement.
The choice of the tender procedure and advertising depends mainly on the threshold amounts as follows:
|
Value of the call for tender |
Minimum procedure |
Means of advertising |
|
<€5,000 |
negotiated procedure with single supplier/service provider |
No advertising |
|
€5,001 - €25,000 |
negotiated tender procedure – with at least 3 candidates |
No advertising |
|
€25,001 - €60,000 |
Negotiated tender procedure – with at least 5 candidates |
Advertising on Frontex Webpage |
|
>€60,000 and less than €125,000 for supplies and services |
restricted tender procedure or, if considered appropriate, open procedure |
TED Webpage[1] and Frontex Webpage |
|
>€125,000 supplies and services |
open tender procedure or restricted tender procedure with a contract notice published in the OJ |
TED Webpage and Frontex Webpage |
|
Service contracts >€60,000 with no upper limit) |
negotiated procedure following a publication of a contract notice in the OJ or restricted tender procedure following a call for expressions of interest |
TED Webpage and Frontex Webpage |
General questions related to Frontex procurement procedures shall be addressed to: .
[1] Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) - the electronic supplement to the Official Journal of the European Community. Accessible under following address: http://www.ted.europa.eu
