WRITTEN QUESTION P-0439/00 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (ELDR) to the Commission. European invitation to tender for EU contract for supply of gabion matting to Bolivia.
C 374 E/76 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 28. 12. 2000 (2000/C 374 E/088) WRITTEN QUESTION P-0439/00 by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (ELDR) to the Commission (11 February 2000) Subject: European invitation to tender for EU contract for supply of gabion matting to Bolivia On 22 November 1999 a European tendering procedure (SCR-E/11095/D/S/BO) was published on the TED Alert System concerning the supply of gabion matting and gabions to Bolivia for the project to protect the town of Montero against flooding by the Pirai river. The tendering procedure was closed on 20 January 2000. 1. Can the Commission inform me of the outcome of that invitation to tender? How many firms participated? How many firms met the conditions for submitting tenders? What firm was awarded the contract and at what price, and what is that firmís nationality? 2. Can the Commission inform me why one of the conditions for the tender was that the materials supplied must bear a ácertificate of originí from an EU country, a Mercosur or Andean Pact country, or Bolivia or Chile? Is that condition in accordance with European tendering rules? 3. Can the Commission provide me with a table showing the results of all tenders for the supply of gabion matting and gabions under EU development programmes in Bolivia and the rest of South America since 1992? Can the Commission inform me of the budget entry under which the above project is being 4. financed? Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission (9 March 2000) 1. It has to be noted that the contracting authority, Searpi, and not the Commission is the authority responsible for the receipt and evaluation of offers. The results of the tender are not available yet. The tender opening session took place on 20 January 2000 and to date the beneficiary has not submitted for the Commissionís approval the evaluation report with the results of the examination of the offers and the contract award proposal. 2. According to Community procurement rules related to external aid, all supplies must originate in the countries as defined in special conditions, Article I of the tender dossier (Member States, Bolivia, Pacto Andino, Mercosur and Chili). Under Article XIV. 4 the tenderer must indicate the origin of supplies. The tenderer must present the certificate of origin to the contracting authority when the supplies arrive in the recipient country (Article 1. 10 of Part C Technical Annexí). 3. 4. Detailed statistics, up to this level, are not available. Budget line B7-310. (2000/C 374 E/089) WRITTEN QUESTION E-0446/00 by Christos Folias (PPE-DE) to the Commission (24 February 2000) Subject: Official languages and the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market An appeal has been lodged with the EU Court of the First Instance against the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) in respect of the validity of the provisions of Regulation 40/94 (1) on the Community trade mark which provides that the languages of this Office are Spanish, English, French, German and Italian and excludes all the other official languages of the European Union