View Vacancy -- CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIST OF INDIVIDUAL EXTERNAL EXPERTS TO ASSIST CEPOL, Ref: CEPOL/CEI/EE/2024
E-mail: procurement@cepol.europa.eu
2. Registration procedure
The objective of this call for expressions of interest is to set up a list of external experts.
Expressions of interest should be submitted by electronic means at the link provided at https://www.cepol.europa.eu/work/experts-trainers.
Inclusion on the list entails no obligation on the part of the contracting authority concerning the conclusion of contracts.
3. Information and documents to be provided
Interested parties should provide, together with their application:
- a declaration on honour to be found at https://www.cepol.europa.eu/work-us/procurement/calls-individual-experts stating that they are not in one of the situations of exclusion listed at point 10 and that they fulfil the selection criteria listed at point 11. In case of doubt, they may be requested to provide supporting evidence of non-exclusion and/or selection.
Submission of an application implies the acceptance of the terms and conditions laid down in this CEI and all the relevant annexes.
4. General description of the procedure
4.1 Selection
Natural persons are invited to submit an expression of interest in accordance with the rules set out in this notice.
Applicants may apply for one or several thematic areas indicated at point 7 by selecting the relevant fields in their application.
The Contracting Authority will draw up a list of experts who meet the criteria set out at point 11. This list corresponds to each of the fields described at point 7.
The selection procedure will be carried out at least on a quarterly basis by a panel appointed by the Executive Director of CEPOL. Applications shall be considered valid only if sent before the deadline indicated in point 9 below.
The result of the selection procedure is, in case of a positive outcome, the inclusion of the applicant in the list of prospective individual external experts, for the duration specified in point 9 below.
All applicants will be informed of the results of the procedure (i.e. whether or not they have been placed on the list).
4.2 Assignment of the expert and signature of the contract:
Where a particular task relating to any of the thematic areas described at point 7 is to be performed by an external expert, CEPOL will assign experts to the task based on the relevance of the skills, experience and knowledge necessary and in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination, equal treatment and absence of conflict of interests. The choice of the expert will be carried out by the same selection panel specified above in point 4.1.
CEPOL will ensure that the choice of expert is made in a balanced manner with an appropriate rotation of experts. Account will also be taken, for example, and depending on the specific tasks to be assigned, of the geographical representations and linguistic abilities of applicants. In addition, whilst maintaining the principle of choosing the most qualified experts, CEPOL will seek to obtain a gender balance.
A contract shall be signed between CEPOL and the selected expert for the performance of allocated task(s). A model contract, including the relevant annexes, is available at the following link ( https://www.cepol.europa.eu/work-us/procurement/calls-individual-experts). In accordance with the model contract provisions, the selected expert shall be entitled to a payment as indicated in point 12. The travel and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed on the basis of the rules on the reimbursement annexed to the model contract. Before the signature of the contract, the expert shall provide:
- a legal entity form for Natural Persons (PDF version), together with the requested supporting documents (template available at the following link: https://www.cepol.europa.eu/work-us/procurement/calls-individual-experts
- a financial identification form (PDF version), together with the requested supporting documents (template available at the following link: https://www.cepol.europa.eu/work-us/procurement/calls-individual-experts
The experts are requested to commit themselves to respect applicable national legislation (including taxation, social security, and labour laws) with regard to any payment received from CEPOL.
5. Protection of personal data
If processing your expression of interest involves the recording and processing of personal data (such as your name, address and CV), such data will be processed pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23.10.2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC Text with EEA relevance. Unless indicated otherwise, your reply to this notice and any personal data requested are required for the purposes indicated above in point 4 and will be processed solely for those purposes by the contracting authority indicated in point 1, which is also acting as data controller. Details concerning the processing of your personal data are available on the privacy statement at:
https://www.cepol.europa.eu/data-protection
Your personal data may be registered in the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES), should you be in one of the situations mentioned in Article 136 and 141 of the Financial Regulation[1]. For more information, see the privacy statement: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/explained/management/protecting/protect_en.cfm
[1] Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193 of 30.07.2018, p.1).
6. Use of the list resulting from this notice
The list resulting from this notice will be used exclusively for execution of the tasks within the fields described at point 7 below the applicable threshold of the Directive on public procurement (2014/24/EU). This ceiling applies to the total of all payments (including both remunerations and reimbursement) to be made to each expert throughout the duration set for the list. Furthermore, the cumulative length of the contracts shall not exceed 50 days per calendar year per expert.
The external experts shall perform the following tasks:
- provide expert advice / content expertise to CEPOL in the context of the CEPOL implemented activities (e.g. courses, seminars, conferences and e-learning), including capacity building projects,
- provide expert advice on specific items such as the identification of training needs and content advice on specific sub-sectors,
- provide expert advice to CEPOL in relation to specific questions in the context of programme formulation, methodologies and/or implementation,
- assist CEPOL in the peer review, feasibility studies and in the drafting of technical specifications, in the evaluation of procurement tenders, project follow-up and ex-post evaluation.
The selected experts shall assist CEPOL in the performance of the tasks mentioned above and shall conduct their work in compliance with CEPOL processes and procedures taking into account the agency’s objectives as well as the specific rules and any relevant CEPOL guide and/or manual. All relevant information/documentation will be made available to the experts by CEPOL prior to the start-up of the activities/tasks.
Disclaimer
Inclusion of an expert on the list does not imply any obligation for CEPOL to provide them a contract. The experts on the list are not specifically endorsed by CEPOL and cannot be considered CEPOL staff. The opinions and thoughts expressed by the experts cannot be considered representative of the views of CEPOL. CEPOL is entitled to terminate the list at any time without any type of compensation for the experts.
1. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/EMPACT cycle, in general
2. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/High-Risk Criminal Networks
3. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Migration and Migrant Smuggling
4. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Trafficking in Human Beings, including but not limited to sexual and labour exploitation
5. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Environmental Crime
6. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Document and Identity Fraud
7. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Drugs trafficking, drugs crimes (also including intra and extra-EU routes)
8. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Organised Property Crime, including trafficking of cultural goods
9. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Missing trader intracommunity fraud
10. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Corruption
11. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Excise fraud
12. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Intellectual Property Crime
13. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Trafficking and illicit use of Firearms and Explosives (also including intra and extra-EU routes)
14. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Cybercrime - Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
15. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Cybercrime - Non-Cash Means of Payment
16. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Cybercrime – Attacks, including attacks against information systems
17. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Criminal Finances, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery
18. EU Crime Priorities – Serious and Organised Crime/Crime as a Service
19. Counter-terrorism/Radicalisation and Extremism
20. Counter-terrorism/Foreign Terrorist Fighters and High-Risk Individuals
21. Counter-terrorism/Open-Source Intelligence in CT
22. Counter-terrorism/Security and Protection of Public Spaces, Critical Infrastructure
23. Counter-terrorism/Combating the Financing of Terrorism
24. Counter-terrorism/The Use of SIS and other Information Systems for CT
25. Counter-terrorism/CBRN-E
26. Counter-terrorism/Other CT-related Issues (Including but not limited to: New emerging technologies used by Terrorists / Extremists (Darknet, Meta-verse, Decentralised Platforms, and Use of Virtual Agents, Online Undercover Operations in CT.)
27. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Fundamental Rights - Conventions and Declarations
28. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Police Ethics and Management of Diversity
29. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Victim Protection and Rights
30. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Hate Crime, Racism, and Discrimination
31. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Gender Issues
32. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Domestic Violence
33. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Data Protection
34. Fundamental Rights and Management of Diversity/Other Fundamental Rights Issues
35. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Law enforcement cooperation, in general
36. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Schengen Information System (SIS)
37. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Entry-Exit system (EES)
38. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Passenger Name Record (PNR) (Including but not limited to: PNR Analysis.)
39. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS)
40. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Interoperability
41. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Joint Investigation Teams (JITs)
42. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Customs Cooperation
43. Law enforcement EU / regional / international cooperation, information exchange & analysis and interoperability/Intelligence / Operational / Strategic Analysis
44. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Leadership Development, in general
45. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Strategy / Organisational Development
46. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Language development (English and French)
47. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Hostage Negotiations
48. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Special Investigative Techniques (including but not limited to: Undercover Operations and Informant Handling.)
49. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Judicial Investigations
50. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Strategic and tactical intelligence analysis tools, and methodologies
51. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Interview, and Interrogation Techniques
52. Leadership and other skills, competencies/Mentoring, and coaching
53. Higher Education and Research/Research and Science Applied to Law Enforcement
54. Higher Education and Research/Artificial Intelligence Research Applied to Law Enforcement
55. Higher Education and Research/Research and Analysis Methodology, survey
56. Higher Education and Research/Innovations in Research and Higher Education
57. Higher Education and Research/Networking maintenance
58. Higher Education and Research/Influencer on Research and on research networks
59. Higher Education and Research/Designing research projects
60. Higher Education and Research/High-level Edition of high ranks impact factor publications
61. Higher Education and Research/Financial assistance to research projects
62. Higher Education and Research/Funding possibilities for research
63. Higher Education and Research/Accreditation, EQF / SQF NQF expertise, Bologna and Copenhagen Processes
64. Higher Education and Research/Higher Education
65. Public order and crime prevention
66. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Forensics
67. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
68. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/High-performance computing (HPC)
69. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Development of ICT networks and encryption
70. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Hybrid threats and War crime investigation
71. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Witness protection
72. LE Technologies, Forensics and Other Specific Areas/Applied psychology / behavioural sciences
73. Learning Development/Train-the-trainers, including online learning (e-learning)
74. Learning and Training Design and Delivery, including online learning (e-learning)
75. Learning Development/Training Quality Assurance
76. Learning Development/ISO 29993 expertise
77. Learning Development/Online learning
78. Learning Development/Academic Curriculum Advisers
79. Learning Development/Academic Accreditation Experts, training quality assurance and evaluation of training systems
80. Learning Development/Training Peer Review
81. Learning Development/Mock Trials and Criminal Case Simulation (Including but not limited to case studies, role play and simulation development/performance.)
82. Union Missions ((CSDP), Management, Planning, Command, Threat Assessment)
Any requests for additional information must only be made in writing, via e-mail to:
cepol-cei-ee-2024@cepol.europa.eu
16. Specific environmental requirements during the execution of the expert’s assignment(s)
* Deliverables of the expert(s): all reports, annexes, presentations are delivered in e-format. Paper deliverables are not allowed.
* All meetings for the coordination of the assignment are organised by video-conference to limit (air) travel, unless otherwise specified by CEPOL. CEPOL will provide the technical infrastructure/support for the meeting (add description of the system used and its compatibility with other video conferencing systems).
*When a meeting needs to take place on CEPOL premises, the expert(s) shall follow the waste sorting measure in place at CEPOL and try to avoid single used plastic usage.
*If travelling is necessary, the expert(s) shall give priority to train travel or air travel proposing offsetting.