Building green and climate neutral city hubs across European cities (II^ Edition Follower cities)

This innovation partnership aims to develop and experiment new and innovative climate services in 5 EU cities: Grenoble (FR), IssylesMoulineaux (FR), Prijedor (BA), Sofia (BG) and Pilsen (CZ). The urban challenges to be tackled and their environments were presented publicly in January 2025 during 5 preliminary market consultations, the proceedings of which can be consulted at the following web address: https://climaborough.eu/publicprocurement/preliminarymarketconsultationsoffollowercities/. The deployment of solutions in each city environment constitutes a separate lot of this tender. The sociotechnical solutions envisaged should assist citizens and/or urban policy makers in taking climate friendly decisions and actions supported by specific data and information on the carbon footprint of the human activities. At the end of the procurement procedure, there will be two awarded solutions per city. This Call is governed by the EU directive on public procurement, 2014/24/EU, and by the national legislation of Italy where the Contracting authority resides. In case of conflict between the European and the national legislation, the former will prevail. The competition is structured in five phases, namely: 1) Candidature; 2) Negotiation; 3) Tendering; 4) Award; 5) Solution deployment. The Contracting authority has set up the following timetable: Deadline for enquiries regarding Phase 1: 5 May 2025, h. 23:59 Deadline for Phase 1 applications: 9 May 2025, h. 23:59 Tentative date of notification of invitations to Phase 2: 30 May 2025 Deadline for enquiries regarding Phase 2: 23 June 2025, h. 23:59 Deadline for Phase 2 submissions: 27 June 2025, h. 23:59 Tentative end date of Phase 2 negotiations: 31 July 2025 Deadline for enquiries regarding Phase 3: 25 August 2025, h. 23:59 Deadline for Phase 3 submissions: 29 August 2025, h. 23:59 Tentative date of notification of Phase 4 results: 30 September 2025 Tentative end of the waiting period: 15 October 2025 Tentative date of Partnership Contract signature: 30 November 2025 Maximum end date of Phase 5: 31 August 2026 This procedure is divided in 5 lots of identical value (240.000 Euros). Each economic operator can compete in all 5 lots. However, the same legal entity (single or associate) may not be invited to submit more than one Technical Offer per lot in Phase 2. At the end of Phase 4 the Contracting authority expects to award no fewer than 2 Tenderers per lot. However, in case one or more lots are not awarded or only partially so, the Contractor reserves the right of awarding more than 2 Tenderers in one or more other lots, following the order of their positioning in the ranking. There is no limitation to the number of lots an economic operator can be awarded. Any economic operator (single or associate) must fulfill the following conditions: 1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity; 2) Economic and financial standing; 3) Technical and professional ability.