European legislation requires that tenders for public contracts where the amounts exceed a certain threshold, which varies according to the type of contract, be published in the Official Journal S series, which can be consulted free of charge in the TED database.

Please find further information on the EU policy on public procurement on the Commission's website.

List of calls for tenders planned for 2013(9 Kb)

Information concerning Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union's past years grants, building contracts or specific contracts made against framework contracts, can be found by consulting the Financial Transparency System.

Background information for tenders relating to IT service contracts

The following documents are made available by DG Taxation and Customs Union for the information of tenderers.

Prior information notices

Official Journal S 251-408959

TAXUD/2011/AO-13 CCN2-DEV

Provision of services to cover the specification, development, maintenance and third level support of CCN/CSI and CCN2 (CCN2-DEV)

30/12/2011

Contract notices

Official Journal S 056-091085

TAXUD/2013/AO-01

Specification, development, maintenance and support of customs IT systems (CUST-DEV3)

ATTENTION! Please note that the deadline for submission of tenders has been extended until 24/06/2013.

ATTENTION ! Corrigendum Official Journal 2013/S 084-140897 (30/04/2013).

Please note that some documents have been updated. In order to identify these updates, refer to page 2 and 3 of the Replies to questions letter

Replies to questions addressed to the Commission(17/06/2013)

Letter of invitation(72 Kb)

Tendering specifications(134 Kb)

Annex I(369 Kb)(17/06/2013), IIa(1.39 Mb), IIb(2.01 Mb), IIc(116 Kb), IId(38 Kb)(19/04/2013), III(104 Kb)(17/06/2013), IV(105 Kb), V(16 Kb), VI(8 Kb), VII(320 Kb), VIII(330 Kb), IX(15 Kb), Xa(339 Kb), Xb(97 Kb), Xc(34 Kb), Xd(16 Kb), XI(29 Kb)

TAXUD IFP Calculator - application_versionATTENTION! - New Document (19/04/2013)

TAXUD Software Development Categories_v1.01ATTENTION! - New Document (19/04/2013)

Framework Quality Plan v2ATTENTION! - New Documents (19/04/2013)

Q26-2-EU_Customs_Reference_Architecture-v1 00-SfA (2.36 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q27-3-EU_Customs_Reference_Architecture_v1.00-SfA(3.84 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q28-BPM-Part1(33.18 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q28-BPM-Part2(71.89 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q29-SPEED2(47.09 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q34-CSRD2-Technical_Architecture-2.00-EN-SFA(7.29 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (02/05/2013)

Q42-CUST-DEV3 Annex II.A - Terms Of Reference v1.10 (1.4 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (08/05/2013)

Q57 baseline missing release notes.zip (908 Kb)ATTENTION! - New Document (31/05/2013)

Q57 history release notes.zip (9.76 Mb)ATTENTION! - New Document (31/05/2013)

Q63-How to connect to Tempo(534 Kb) ATTENTION! - New Document (07/06/2013)

20/03/2013

Official Journal S 200-328274

TAXUD/2012/AO-13

Provision of effective tax rates in the context of an enlarged European Union and related supporting services

Letter of invitation(285 Kb)

Tendering specifications(441 Kb)

Annex I-II(116 Kb), III(69 Kb), IV(16 Kb), V(320 Kb), VI(330 Kb), VII(231 Kb), VIII(520 Kb), IX(289 Kb)

17/10/2012

Official Journal S 195-319965

TAXUD/2012/AO-06

Provision of Services for Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Project Management of IT Activities managed by DG TAXUD (QA3)

Replies to questions addressed to the Commission(267 Kb)(10/01/2013)

Letter of invitation(72 Kb)

Tendering specifications(130 Kb)

Annex I(358 Kb), IIa(706 Kb), IIb(468 Kb), III(90 Kb), IV(120 Kb), V(16 Kb), VI(8 Kb), VII(320 Kb), VIII(330 Kb), IX(15 Kb), Xa(406 Kb), Xb(97 Kb), Xc(34 Kb), Xd(16 Kb)

10/10/2012

Official Journal S 195-319963

TAXUD/2012/AO-03

Provision of services to cover specification, development, maintenance and support of trans-European IT services in the areas of taxation and excise (FITSDEV3)

Replies to questions addressed to the Commission(631 Kb)(22/01/2013)

Letter of invitation(72 Kb)