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The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is planning to launch a call for tender for the provision of an overview of regulation, policies, strategies, initiatives and programmes for the prevention of work-related cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).
The overall objectives of the contract to be awarded are to:

•    Identify and describe regulation, policies, strategies, initiatives and programmes at EU, Member State, regional, social partner and sectoral levels that have been implemented for the prevention of work-related CVDs, the return-to-work of workers after a CVD or the retention at work of workers with chronic CVDs. The overview should cover regulation, policies, strategies, initiatives and programmes related to OSH as well as those in other policy fields such as public health, environment, etc. as relevant.
•    Analyse and describe a minimum of 4 case examples/best practices fostering the prevention of work-related CVDs, the return-to-work of workers after a CVD or the retention at work of workers with chronic CVDs. The case examples should include: background /introduction, aims of the initiative, what was done and how, what was achieved, success factors and challenges, transferability, further information, references and resources.
•    Identify gaps and needs and provide recommendations for policy regarding the prevention of work-related CVDs, the return-to-work of workers after a CVD or the retention at work of workers with chronic CVDs.
The information and case examples on regulation, policies, strategies, initiatives and programmes will be collected through desk and fieldwork research. 

The expected deliverables are:
•    A final report of approximately 50 pages or 55,000 words maximum (excluding the executive summary and references).
•    A stand-alone executive summary (four pages maximum) based on the content of the final report.
•    A minimum of 4 individual case studies/examples to be published as stand-alone documents (deliverable for publication, total length about 5-6 pages, 20.000 characters, with spaces each). 
•    A policy brief of maximum 4-5 pages
•    A powerpoint presentation highlighting the main issues and recommendations. This should be suitable for a non-technical audience. The powerpoint slides will be drafted using good presentational practice, keeping text to the headlines on the slides and putting further detail in speaker’s notes. The presentation should have a maximum of 15 slides and will prepared using the template and guidelines for accessible PowerPoint presentations provided by the contracting authority to the winning tenderer once the contract has been awarded.

The maximum total budget available for the contract to be awarded is EUR  40.000 (excluding VAT).

The tenderers must comply with the following selection criteria:

Economic and financial capacity: 

• Average yearly turnover of the last two financial years above EUR 30,000.

Technical and professional capacity: 

• Experience in the field of research on occupational safety and health and work-related diseases:

             - At least 2 similar (in scope and complexity) projects completed in the last five years preceding the deadline for submission of tenders.

• Expertise and capacity to provide final reports and other project deliverables at professional English native speaker or C1 level of the Common European Framework of reference for languages (CEF or CEFR) or equivalent and to manage contracts of a similar nature
• The team delivering the service should include, as a minimum, the following profiles (non-exclusive list):
  • At least one senior researcher with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in research on OSH and work-related diseases; researching and presenting case examples; drafting information and policy briefs.
  • At least one team member with a minimum of 3 years of experience in research on OSH.
  • At least one team member needs to be able to work at a level of English of native speaker or C1 level of the CEF/CEFR (or equivalent) to ensure the required language quality check of the project deliverables.
  • One project manager with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the management of contracts of a similar nature. 

Note: the above profiles may be covered by one person

The way, deadline and details for expressing your interest in being invited to tender are available on: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/7607462c-8b8a-4f7f-a889-a8cc7555fea3-EXA .

It is possible to express interest as an individual organisation or a consortium. However please note that invited candidates can submit a joint tender with other economic operators only if they have expressed interest in the planned procedure as a consortium. More information regarding the participation rules can be found here.