TowerJazz : 18 July 2017 Charles Carayon (Procurement Officer) Introduction to procurement at CERN TowerJazz : 18 July 2017 Charles Carayon (Procurement Officer)
Who are we? 22 Member States Enrique Blanco, CERN 17-Feb-2010 Who are we? CERN: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire World largest Particle Physics Laboratory founded in 1954 by 12 European Countries as Science for Peace Initiative 22 Member States Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italia, Israel, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK 3 Associates in Pre-stage of Membership Serbia, Cyprus, Slovenia 5 Associate Members Pakistan, Turkey, Ukraine, India, Lithuania Observers India, Japan, Russia, USA; EU and UNESCO Yearly Budget: ~1.1 BCHF. Every member contributes in proportion to its GDP
Approved and Recognized experiments Approved experiments i.e. LHC experiments: ALICE: 37 countries, 154 Institutes involving over 1500 scientists; ATLAS: 38 countries, 180 institutes involving 5000 scientists; CMS: 46 countries, 201 institutes involving over 3500 scientists; LHCb: 16 countries, 69 institutes involving 770 scientists. Recognised experiments i.e. experiments which complement CERN's scientific programme, typically in astrophysics or non-accelerator experiments: AMS: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for Extraterrestrial Study of Antimatter, Matter and Missing Matter on the International Space Station… 12 000 users, 70 countries, 120 different nationalities – half of the world’s particle physicists – come to CERN for their research.
Accelerators and Technology Section Anders UNNERVIK Anders Unnervik Lisa Bellini-Devictor Fatima NAJEH Cristina Lara Accelerators and Technology Section Admin & General Infrastructure Section Information Technology and Purchase Orders Section, MICE, Stores Research and Industrial Services Section Purchases of supplies exceeding 200 kCHF for the Accelerators and Technology Sector Purchases of supplies exceeding 200 kCHF for the Admin. and General Infrastructure Sector and the CERN Pension Fund, insurance and civil engineering contracts Procurement of Contracts for Research exceeding 50kCHF (except gré à gré), services exceeding 200kCHF, EU-funded Projects Purchases and price enquiries for supplies below 200kCHF (below 50kCHF and gré à gré for Research), Purchases for stores, Contracts for computing, hotels and conferences Bjorn Jenssen Ivo Lobmaier Floris Bonthond Jerome PIERLOT Charles CARAYON Laszlo Abel Sebastien SONNERAT Christophe VEYS Stephanie BLANCHARD Sandra BENOIT-GODET Alexandre TABARY Marine Gabrielle ROUSSET Adam Horridge Orane CANTONI Gaelle Breuillaud Dana Svanidze Sandrine Magnan Hiba GERSTER Adrien FRAUENFELDER Chafik EL GHAZOUANI Nordine Azizi Dominique Trolliet Arielle Gaidon Yannick TENDON Pascal DROUX
Legal framework CERN, an Intergovernmental Organization, was established in July 1953, by the “Convention for the establishment of a European Organization for Nuclear Research”. As an Intergovernmental Organization, CERN is not a legal entity under national law but governed by public international law. CERN benefits from immunity from national jurisdiction and execution. Thus, legal disputes between CERN and its suppliers are not submitted to national courts but solved via international arbitration. CERN is thus entitled to establish its own internal rules necessary for its proper functioning, such as the rules under which it purchases equipment and services.
Objectives of CERN procurement rules to guarantee that contracts fulfil all the technical, financial and delivery requirements ; to keep overall costs for CERN as low as possible ; to achieve balanced industrial return for the Member States by setting out appropriate procedures including, but not limited to, alignment, splitting or limited tendering. Note: the extent of application of CERN Procurement rules depends on the involvement of CERN funds.
CERN contribution >750kCHF : CERN Finance Committee approval is required (potentially +12 weeks)
Recurrent supplies – CERN Budget What do we buy? Recurrent supplies – CERN Budget
2016 commitments - Experiments Country of origin Grand Total (rounded kCHF) United Kingdom 7 243 Italy 6 511 Germany 6 432 France 4 351 Switzerland 4 119 Poland 2 385 Netherlands 2 093 Austria 811 Spain 793 Norway 718 Israel 653 Belgium 550 Sweden 539 Denmark 373 Slovakia 276 Czech Republic 273 Hungary 194 Finland 153 Greece 145 Bulgaria 132 Romania 24 Portugal 23 Turkey 5 Cyprus Pakistan Serbia Other 16 387 Total 55 185
Supplies in Israel – 2015 (CERN budget + experiments)
Suppliers with the highest turnover in 2016 (origin IL)
Business opportunities All opportunities >200kCHF are published: https://found.cern.ch/java-ext/found/CFTSearch.do + STREAM / ATLAS: ALPIDE ….
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