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Tenders

TED: tenders electronic daily

On the website of the TED data base, you can find all public procurement notices, published by the member states and the European institutions. TED contains all active notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal (OJ S). In addition to current tenders, TED also gives access to the OJ S archives for the past five years.

For more information:
http://ted.europa.eu

On the website of TED data base and in the Supplement to the Official Journal (OJ S), you can find the following procurement notices:

• public contract notices for works, supplies and services from all EU Member States;

• utilities contract notices (water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors);

• public contract notices from EU institutions;

• External aid and European Development Fund notices;

• European Investment Bank, European Central Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development financed projects;

• European Economic Area contract notices (> Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein);

• contract notices pursuant to the agreement on government procurement (GPA), concluded within the framework of the GATT/World Trade Organisation (WTO), from Switzerland;

• contract notices concerning the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG);

• public contracts for air services.

If you want to publish a tender, you should visit the portal SIMAP for public procurement notices.

There you will find: 1) General and specific information on the European public procurement sector; 2) Links to the latest European Directives on public procurement; 3) Links to the codes and thresholds used in public procurement and 4) The official standard forms for sending notices to be published in the Supplement to the Official Journal (OJ S), as laid down in the European directives:

SIMAP:
http://simap.europa.eu/

New financial rules for use of the EU funds:

On 28 March 2007 the new financial rules for better use of the EU funds in the 2007-2013 financial framework were approved. The new rules simplify access to funding, reduce administrative procedures to a strict minimum and include better public control.

The practical improvements for both grants and public contracts will be most important for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), schools, universities, researchers, development agencies and municipalities. The simplification of the procedures includes:

• Grants of up to €5,000 require less documentation;

• Work done by staff may replace cash co-financing for grants;

• The financial guarantees required for grants below €60,000 prior to initial payment may be waived, after having assessed the financial risk;

• Purchases of up to €60 000 using grant money may be made with the minimum of rules to be respected, only the principle of sound financial management and the absence of conflict of interests will be required;

• Higher threshold (€60,000 instead of €50,000) for award of public contracts with simplified purchasing procedures;

• Higher threshold to allow organisations competing for low-value EU contracts to make a simple declaration on their honour, replacing complex evidence showing no previous malpractice convictions;

• Simplifications for award of public contracts in the field of external aid with much higher thresholds (up to €5,000,000 for works).

The rules also include the names of beneficiaries of structural funds and external aid programmes (as of 2008) and agricultural subsidies (as of 2009) to be disclosed to public view in all Member States.

The Commission will aslo have an expanded tool to prevent fraud and corruption: the central database of organisations excluded from EU funding will be shared between all EU Institutions and Member States authorities. This database will contain all relevant information on entities condemned for fraud or corruption in the Member States and third countries involved in the implementation of EU programmes.

For more information please consult the brochure “ New funds, better rules ”.