- Title
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Estonia - Tallinn: Supply of Personal Protective Equipment (Face Masks) for EU-LISA
- Award criteria
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priceOnly
- Award criteria details
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Lowest price
Award criteria for item 1:
- Price
- Main procurement category
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goods
- Procurement method details
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Negotiated without a prior call for competition
Justification:
1) Immediate needs of the Agency, regarding face masks, must be accommodated without any delay. When estimating the immediate needs, the following factors are taken into consideration: situation and volatility of the market, necessity to protect health and safety of the personnel of the Agency, acquisition of the most necessary and urgent supplies (face masks), until more stable solutions are implemented, impossibility to use other procedures under time and other constraints.2) Extreme urgency has been brought by an unforeseeable event — Covid-19 outbreak and pandemic. This event and especially its specific developments, which happened at an unprecedented rate, are considered as unforeseeable by EU-LISA. The specific needs of face masks, as part of the strategy for prevention and control measures against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the Agency, certainly, could not be foreseen and planned in advance. Therefore, the existence of an unforeseeable event is justified.3) The extreme urgency of the purchase is under no circumstances attributable to EU-LISA. First of all, since the declaration of the emergency states and imposition of the restrictive measures,including confinement, by French and Estonian authorities, there was a constant uncertainty about possible future developments and prospects of deconfinement, even in a very short term. Furthermore, it has to be added, that the usage of masks was debatable and questionable in the beginning of the outbreak of Covid-19. Initially, it was not considered as a necessary precautionary measure amongst the healthy individuals.In this respect EU-LISA had closely followed the strategies and recommendations, adopted by respective authorities and states and acted in due diligence to contribute to the containment of the virus.Nonetheless, as soon as the positive effects of carrying face masks as a prevention against the spread and transmission of the virus along with recommendations of respective health authorities came into picture, with a view of the possibility of gradual de-confinement measures, announced by the states, the Agency developed recommendations on the use of masks. The procurement of masks is based on these recommendations.
- Tender period
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2020-07-07
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