For the purpose of the implementation of performance and charging schemes, the Commission is assisted by the Performance Review Board (PRB) established by Regulation (EU) 2024/2803 on the implementation of the Single European Sky (hereinafter the SES2+ Regulation), which is charged with providing an independent and impartial advice to the Commission in accordance with Article 13 of the SES2+. The PRB consists of seven members, including its Chair, who are appointed by the Commission, in accordance with Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/635 . The PRB is in its function supported by the PRB Secretariat, provided by the Commission to assure the necessary analytical, administrative and technical support to the PRB. The aim is to conclude a single framework contract with one contractor in order to provide support to the PRB and the PRB Secretariat when it comes to the analytical tasks requiring additional and dedicated specialist knowledge on the technical aspects on the implementation of the performance and charging scheme.
See the official notice for the place of performance.
Tenderers can be natural or legal persons. Tenderers are not obliged to take a specific legal form in order to submit their tenders. Where tenderers submit a tender through an entity, which lacks legal personality (e.g., a branch), the compliance with the exclusion criteria, selection criteria, the rules on access to procurement as well as the absence of restrictive measures shall be assessed at the level of the tenderers. Tenderers must prove that they have the legal capacity to perform the contract and the regulatory capacity to pursue the professional activity necessary to carry out the work subject to this call for tenders. Tenderers do not need to prove specific legal and regulatory capacity to perform the contract.
Tenderers must comply with the following selection criteria in order to prove that they have the necessary economic and financial capacity to perform the contract.
The tenderer must prove experience in the following areas: Safety; Environment (flight efficiency, aviation emissions, noise); Capacity (ATM operations, flow-management, modelling); Military; Cost-efficiency, economic regulation of network industries and/or competition economics, including the provision of robust economic and regulatory analysis, knowledge of charging principles, accounting rules, incentive mechanisms, financial modelling etc.; Technology (SESAR) and Investment in general (CAPEX); Single European Sky performance and charging scheme; EU law with focus on regulation of network industries and/or competition law.
The team delivering the services must consist of at least: one project manager as defined below, and at least 15 other experts in total, out of which at least five senior experts. More specifically, there should be at least one senior expert per Key Performance Area (KPA): Safety, Environment, Capacity, and Cost-efficiency. Team members shall fall in one of the categories corresponding to a specific person/day price listed in the Financial Model in Annex 6, and shall have, as the minimum, the qualifications requested in the below table of profiles.
The tenderer must prove the senior profiles have experience in the following areas: Safety, Environment (flight efficiency, aviation emissions, noise), Capacity (ATM operations, flow-management, modelling) and military; Cost-efficiency, economic regulation of network industries and/or competition economics, including the provision of robust economic and regulatory analysis, knowledge of charging principles, accounting rules, incentive mechanisms, financial modelling etc.; Technology (SESAR) and Investment in general (CAPEX); Single European Sky performance and charging scheme; EU law with focus on regulation of network industries and/or competition law.
The tenderer must prove the junior profiles have experience in the following areas: Qualitative and quantitative data collection; Data analysis; Event organisation; Stakeholder engagement.
Involved entities must not be subject to professional conflicting interests which may negatively affect the contract performance. Where the contracting authority has established such conflicting interests, it may conclude that the tenderer or an involved entity does not possess the required professional capacity to perform the contract to an appropriate quality standard. The presence of conflicting interests shall be examined during the evaluation phase based on the statements made through the Declarations on Honour and, where applicable, the commitment letters (Annex 5.1 and Annex 5.2).
Published 27 April 2026 · rebuilt nightly from the official notice.