Call for tenders
“Crowdsourcing: engaging communities effectively in food and feed risk assessment (exploring the collaborative model)” - OC/EFSA/AMU/2017/02

 

(2017/S 155-321182)

 

Objectives and description

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a call for tenders for “Crowdsourcing: engaging communities effectively in food and feed risk assessment (exploring the collaborative model)” - OC/EFSA/AMU/2017/02.

 

The aim of this procurement procedure is to conclude a direct contract for the execution of crowdsourcing pilot projects in some of the areas of EFSA's work identified in the project OC/EFSA/AMU/2015/03 ‘Crowdsourcing: engaging communities effectively in food and feed risk assessment’ as having high potential to benefit from crowdsourcing of collaborative nature.

 

The specific objective of the contract resulting from the present procurement procedure is to run 5 crowdsourcing pilot projects in identified areas of EFSA’ work, in particular:

· two projects in the area of Data collection and validation:

o collection of data on feeding practices and food consumption patterns of infants (ages birth to 3 months) including demographic characteristics of the household and anthropometric measures of the child.

o validation of data: crowdsourcing the validation of a dataset

· one project in the area of Innovation: collaborative project focused on proposing a new methodological approach in the area of dose-response modelling using summary (aggregated) data including heterogeneity

· one project in the area of Systematic literature review: crowdsourcing of abstract screening using an online platform

· one project in the area of Consultation: to widen the contribution in reviewing or co-creating protocols, opinions or guidance.

 

Eligible participants - Minimum conditions

Natural and legal persons from one of the EU Member States and all natural and legal persons in a third country which has a special agreement with the European Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement.

 

Funding conditions and duration

The estimated value is 200.000 EUR excluding VAT and is not subject to renewal.

 

The maximum duration of the tasks is 24 months.

 

Deadline of proposals' submission

The tender must be received no later than 3 November 2017, 14:30 Brussels local time.

 

Tenders must be submitted electronically via the e-Submission application in one of the official languages of the European Union, preferably in English, through the e-tendering website.

 

Further information

Please find attached the documentation of the call for tenders.

More information is available at the following link: https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=2827

 

 

Kind regards,

Rosemary

 

 

THE GREEK TRANSLATION IS AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=2827&locale=el