Assistance à la gestion environnementale et veille réglementaire en environnement, santé et sécurité au travail (2027-2030)

The European Court of Auditors (Luxembourg) invites electronic tenders for framework agreements (procedure reference ECA/2026/OP/0009) divided into three lots to provide maintenance of its EMAS/ISO 14001 environmental management system, environmental training, and regulatory monitoring and legal compliance audits for the period 2027–2030. The open procedure requires submission via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal (eSubmission) with a deadline of 18 November 2026 at 16:00 Luxembourg time and a public opening on 19 November 2026 at 10:00, and awards will be made per lot on the basis of the lowest compliant price (100% price weighting). The maximum contract duration is 48 months, tenderers must satisfy exclusion and selection criteria and demonstrate specified experience per lot, and financial offers must use the provided protected spreadsheets with prices in € excluding VAT.

Résumé rapide

Ce que finance l’appel d’offres

Qui peut postuler

Cabinets de conseil, bureaux d’études ou consortiums (soumissionnaire unique ou offre conjointe). Sous-traitance autorisée ; soumissionnaires établis dans l’espace des traités ou pays tiers liés par accord peuvent participer. PIC requis pour soumettre via eSubmission.

Exigences essentielles d’éligibilité

Ne doivent pas faire l’objet de mesures restrictives de l’UE ni être dans une situation d’exclusion (déclarations sur l’honneur et justificatifs exigés). Critères techniques: expérience requise par lot (ex. bilans carbone, maintenance SME EMAS/ISO 14001, conception de formations, veille réglementaire et audits de conformité).

Montant et modalités financières

Le marché est un contrat-cadre avec bons de commande ; le montant global dépend des offres retenues et des bons de commande annuels. Les bordereaux de prix (annexe 6) détaillent les unités annuelles estimées par lot. Tous les prix doivent être exprimés en € hors TVA et l’attribution est faite au prix le plus bas.

Footnotes

1. 1Avis de marché et dossier complet (cahier des charges, projet de contrat, annexes financières) disponibles sur le portail Funding & Tenders Portal Tender details.

Opportunity summary

The European Court of Auditors (Cour des comptes, Luxembourg) invites electronic tenders for a framework contract (three lots) to provide methodological support and consultancy services required for the maintenance of the Court’s environmental management system (SME) based on EMAS and ISO 14001:2015, environmental training, and continuous regulatory watch and legal compliance audits in environment and health and safety at work (SST). The procedure is an open procedure with electronic eSubmission via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. TED reference: 699456-2026; procedure id ECA/2026/OP/0009.

Key administrative facts

Lots and scope of services

The tender is divided into three independent lots. Tenderers may bid for one, several or all lots. Each awarded lot will result in a framework agreement (single framework contractor per lot). Each framework may be used to place specific contracts or orders during its duration (2027–2030).

Eligibility and selection

All operators established within the area governed by the EU treaties or in third countries with a specific public procurement agreement with the EU may submit offers. Tenderers must not be subject to EU restrictive measures or fall into exclusion grounds (bankruptcy, grave professional misconduct, fraud, corruption, terrorism, money laundering, etc.). The tender documents include a Declaration on Honour to be completed (Annexe 2). Selection criteria require proof of legal capacity and technical/professional capacity; evidence is requested in the annex templates and can be requested later for verification.

Eligibility details (structured answers)

Application templates and required documents (what to submit)

The tender package includes administrative and technical annex templates that must be completed and uploaded via eSubmission. All templates are published in French. Required templates and core documents (examples) are:

Selection and evaluation — detailed requirements

Selection checks include exclusion criteria (criminal, insolvency, fraud, corruption, violations of fiscal or social obligations, serious professional misconduct, terrorism, money laundering, human trafficking). The tender requires an Annex 2 Declaration on Honour; the Court may request supporting documents from the awardee before contract signature. Technical selection criteria per lot specify minimum experience, team composition and references: see Annex 8 (Lot 1), Annex 9 (Lot 2) and Annex 10 (Lot 3). Each lot includes minimum team profiles and experience and allows consortium or subcontractor capacities to be invoked provided the required evidence (engagement letters, CVs, references) are supplied.

Procurement practicalities and evaluation steps

All tender communications, subscription to the call and document downloads are via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. For electronic submission instructions see the eSubmission guide on the portal eSubmission guide 1.

Footnotes

1. 1The tender is published and managed on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal; full call documentation and eSubmission are available via the portal: F&T Portal - Tender details.

Assistance à la gestion environnementale et veille réglementaire en environnement, santé et sécurité au travail 2027 to 2030

This is a public procurement opportunity rather than a grant scheme. The European Court of Auditors intends to purchase environmental management, environmental training, regulatory monitoring and legal compliance audit services to support its environmental management system based on EMAS and ISO 14001:2015. The procurement reference is ECA/2026/OP/0009 and the procedure is published through the European Commission Funding and Tenders Portal.1

The contracting authority is the European Court of Auditors, located in Luxembourg. The main CPV classification is 90713000, environmental issues consultancy services. Legal advisory and information services under CPV 79140000 are also identified as an additional classification.

Opportunity status and key dates

The notice is identified as TED reference 196/2026, publication number 699456-2026, with publication dated 9 October 2026. The procedure is an open procedure and tenders must be submitted electronically.

The authoritative portal information identifies 18 November 2026 at 16:00 Luxembourg time as the deadline for receipt of tenders. The public opening is scheduled for 19 November 2026 at 10:00 Luxembourg time. Questions submitted after 9 November 2026 at 23:59 Luxembourg time may not receive a response.

The metadata also contains an additional date of 1 January 2026 at 15:00:59 UTC. This does not align with the detailed notice, the TED publication information or the stated tender deadline and should be treated as an apparent metadata inconsistency rather than the operative submission deadline.

Key procurement facts

Scope of the procurement

The procurement is divided into three lots. Tenderers may assess and bid for the lots for which they can demonstrate the required technical and professional capacity. The detailed tender documents, rather than the portal summary alone, govern the final scope, evidence requirements and contractual obligations.

Lot 1: Maintenance of the environmental management system

Lot 1 covers methodological, technical and operational support for maintaining, evaluating and continuously improving the Court of Auditors environmental management system. The services are intended to support continued EMAS registration and ISO 14001 certification during the 2027 to 2030 period.

The specific experience requirement identified in the supporting form is evidence of three relevant contracts or projects completed during the previous three years involving maintenance of an environmental management system. References are expected to include service descriptions, client details, contract dates, value of the relevant services and client contact information.

Lot 2: Environmental training

Lot 2 covers the design, preparation and delivery of environmental training for the EMAS team, internal EMAS auditors and personnel designated by the Court.

The identified technical experience requirement is evidence of ten relevant environmental training courses delivered during the previous three years. At least five of the ten courses must concern EMAS or ISO 14001. The contracting authority may request beneficiary confirmations or contact the persons identified in the references.

Lot 3: Regulatory monitoring and legal compliance audits

Lot 3 covers continuous regulatory monitoring and periodic assessment of the Court of Auditors compliance with applicable environmental and occupational health and safety requirements.

The identified experience requirement is evidence of three relevant contracts or projects completed during the previous three years involving regulatory monitoring and legal compliance assessment in environment and occupational health and safety. The references must include at least one environmental assignment and at least one occupational health and safety assignment. A further requirement is evidence of three relevant compliance audit missions completed during the previous three years.

Who can apply

The opportunity is open to economic operators capable of performing the services. The tender documentation permits participation by legal persons and natural persons, and joint tenders may be submitted by groups of operators. Each organisation participating in a tender, including members of a consortium, must be registered in the European Commission Participant Register and use a Participant Identification Code.

Subcontractors and entities whose capacity is relied upon may be relevant to the selection assessment. The declaration on honour indicates that the tenderer, consortium members, subcontractors and entities relied upon must satisfy the applicable exclusion, selection, restrictive measures and conflict of interest requirements.

The notice data does not identify a country restriction in the material reviewed. Applicants should confirm their specific eligibility, professional authorisations, financial capacity and technical capacity against the administrative specifications before submitting an offer.

Exclusion and compliance conditions

Applicants must complete the declaration on honour relating to exclusion and selection criteria. The declaration addresses insolvency, tax and social security obligations, serious professional misconduct, fraud, corruption, criminal activity, money laundering, terrorism financing, trafficking, serious contractual failures, irregularities, obstruction of investigations and other exclusion grounds.

The declaration also covers members of management or supervisory bodies, persons with powers of representation or control, beneficial owners and persons with unlimited liability where applicable. Tenderers must declare that they are not subject to relevant European Union restrictive measures and that the offer has been prepared independently.

The contracting authority may request recent supporting evidence, including criminal record extracts, certificates confirming payment of taxes and social security contributions, and other evidence specified in the administrative specifications. Previously submitted evidence may be reusable where the relevant documents remain current and the contracting authority permits this.

Submission requirements

Tenders must be submitted exclusively through the eSubmission application accessed from the Funding and Tenders Portal. Offers submitted by email, post or another method will not be considered.

An EU Login account is required to access the electronic procurement functions. Each tendering organisation and each consortium member must have a Participant Identification Code. Tenderers should create or verify their registration well before the deadline.

Only one offer per lot may be taken into consideration for each tenderer, subject to the rules in the tender documents. Before the deadline, a tender may be withdrawn or replaced, but a replacement submission must contain all required information and documents again.

The eSubmission receipt containing the official date and time of receipt is the evidence of timely submission. Tenderers should allow sufficient time for account access, file preparation, electronic signatures, upload, validation and receipt generation.

The invitation documents state that the tenderer bears all costs of preparing and submitting the offer and that such costs will not be reimbursed. The contracting authority is not bound to award a contract and may cancel the procedure before signature in accordance with the applicable rules.

Award and commercial structure

The stated award method is lowest price. The notice data records a price weighting of 100 percent. This indicates that tenders meeting the exclusion, eligibility and selection requirements are expected to be ranked on price rather than on a scored quality criterion, although compliance with the technical specifications remains mandatory.

Each lot has a separate financial offer form. Prices must be entered in the designated cells of the protected spreadsheet, with unit prices and total prices for the estimated quantities. Prices include all costs and materials inherent in performing the relevant service and are stated excluding VAT.

The notice does not disclose a maximum contract value, an estimated lot value, a guaranteed volume or a grant contribution. The quantities in the financial forms are estimated quantities for tender evaluation and pricing and should not automatically be interpreted as a guaranteed minimum purchase.

The framework agreement is described as being without reopening of competition. This means that the contracting mechanism is intended to establish the contractual framework and call off services under the agreed terms without a subsequent competition between framework contractors, subject to the detailed draft contract and administrative specifications.

Applicant preparation checklist

Applicants should complete the following actions before submission:

Strategic assessment for applicants

This opportunity is most suitable for established environmental consultancies, certification and environmental management specialists, occupational health and safety compliance advisers, environmental training providers and multidisciplinary consortia combining these capabilities.

Lot 1 is best suited to providers with demonstrable operational experience maintaining certified or registered environmental management systems, supporting external audits and producing environmental performance or carbon footprint reporting.

Lot 2 is best suited to training providers that can evidence a substantial recent portfolio of environmental courses, including at least five courses focused on EMAS or ISO 14001, and can adapt training to professional staff, internal auditors and general personnel.

Lot 3 requires a combination of regulatory intelligence, environmental law, occupational health and safety compliance and audit capability. A bidder with experience in only one of the two regulatory domains may need a consortium partner or appropriately structured subcontracting arrangement, subject to the rules in the tender documents.

Because the award method is lowest price, applicants should focus on strict technical compliance, accurate completion of the price schedules, demonstrable references and a cost model that covers the full scope of delivery over 48 months. Underpricing may create delivery risk because the financial instructions require prices to include inherent costs and materials.

Sources and document access

The official opportunity page, tender documents and financial forms are available through the European Commission Funding and Tenders Portal.1 The European Court of Auditors confirms that it operates an environmental management system aligned with EMAS and ISO 14001 and maintains environmental performance and compliance commitments, which explains the operational context of this procurement.2

The detailed tender documents take precedence over this analytical summary. Applicants should verify all selection criteria, required forms, technical specifications, contractual conditions and any subsequent corrections or answers published on the portal before submitting.

Footnotes

1. 1Official opportunity page and procurement documents: EU Funding and Tenders Portal tender ECA/2026/OP/0009. The official portal information identifies the three lots, the 48 month maximum duration, electronic submission, the 18 November 2026 deadline and the tender documents used for this report.
2. 2European Court of Auditors environmental management information: Environmental management. The page describes the Court's environmental policy, ISO 14001 certification, EMAS registration and environmental performance monitoring.