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The European Commission will soon launch a call for tenders for a framework contract in cascade of a maximum value of EUR 60.000 €.

The purpose of this call for tenders is to deliver a Feasibility Study for the provision of Satellite broadband into schools located in rural areas and not covered by any fixed or mobile broadband through vouchers schemes in accordance with the description of services required included in the annex of this document.

The deadline is 19/06/2015

Interested economic operators can express their interest to participate in the call for tenders until 19 June 2015 in writing to CNECT-R2-EOI@ec.europa.eu 

No evaluation is performed at this stage. All the economic operators who have expressed their interest to participate in this procurement procedure within the above-mentioned deadline will be subsequently invited to submit a tender. The contracting authority reserves the right to also invite economic operators not included in the list of interested economic operators who responded to this ex-ante advertisement.

An economic operator may consider submitting a tender as a single entity or in collaboration with other service providers: either by submitting a joint tender with (a) partner(s) and/or through subcontracting. The economic operator must indicate at the stage of the expression of interest the legal status and the role of each legal entity being part of the grouping.

Only the candidates invited by the contracting authority to participate in this procurement procedure will be admissible. Tenders submitted by groupings of economic operators different than the ones declared in response to the ex-ante advertisement and invited to participate in this procurement procedure will be rejected.

Processing your reply to the ex-ante advertisement will involve the recording and processing of personal data (such as your name and address). Such data will be processed pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data. Unless indicated otherwise, any personal data requested are required to register your interest to participate in the call for tender and will be processed solely for that purpose by the Data Controller. You are entitled to obtain access to your personal data on request and to rectify any such data that is inaccurate or incomplete. If you have any queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you may address them to the Data Controller.

Details concerning the processing of your personal data are available on the privacy statement at:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/dg-connect-privacy-statement 

You have the right of recourse at any time to the European Data Protection Supervisor for matters relating to the processing of your personal data.

For the purpose of this ex-ante advertisement, the Data Controller shall be the Head of the Unit "Finance", Directorate "Support", Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Any queries concerning the processing of personal data of the Candidate can be addressed to the data controller by using the e-mail address mentioned under Point "Purpose of this call for tenders" of the present ex-ante advertisement and by indicating the reference of the ex-ante advertisement.

For more details see here.