The procurement aims to obtain a study on the State aid enforcement by national courts in the EU, including a comprehensive overview of the relevant national court cases since the last study carried out for the Commission, i.e. 1st January 2018. Through the Study, the Commission intends to obtain the state of play of the application of State aid rules before national courts, the identification of the main obstacles and best practices arising at national level, as well as recommendations on possible actions to be undertaken by the Commission and at national level to improve the effectiveness and uniformity of State aid enforcement.
In-person kick-off meeting in Brussels with the Commission services, at the latest two weeks after contract signature (T0 + 2 weeks) Second meeting with Commission services in Brussels, at the latest two weeks after delivery of the Draft Final Study (T0 + 11 months) Presentation of Study results at a final workshop/working group organised by the Commission in Brussels (T0 + 13 months) Progress Reports sent by email every two weeks (no physical meeting required)
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 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 knowledge and experience in the field of: - Competition Law or State aid law; - Research and data collection and organisation; - Drafting of evaluations, analyses and studies regarding the enforcement or application of EU or national law or procedure.
The tenderer must prove capacity to work in a multi-country project.
The tenderer must prove an excellent English command in the drafting of EU legal or policy reports or studies and recommendations and be able to use all the relevant legal vocabulary, economic vocabulary and/or statistical vocabulary in English.
The tenderer must be able to provide evidence of a balanced and credible team with proven expertise in State aid, procedural law, legal research, data research from various sources, handling large datasets, performing analysis and evaluation of the data, drafting in English and editing. The team delivering the service should include, as a minimum, a Project Manager.
The tenderer must be able to provide evidence of a balanced and credible team with proven expertise in State aid, procedural law, legal research, data research from various sources, handling large datasets, performing analysis and evaluation of the data, drafting in English and editing. The team delivering the service should include, as a minimum, a team for the analysis of national procedural law and State aid assessment.
The tenderer must be able to provide evidence of a balanced and credible team with proven expertise in State aid, procedural law, legal research, data research from various sources, handling large datasets, performing analysis and evaluation of the data, drafting in English and editing. The team delivering the service should include, as a minimum, a team for data collection and processing of legal data.
Involved entities and all subcontractors, including those which do not need to be identified in the tender, 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.
Published 12 June 2026 · rebuilt nightly from the official notice.