At the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, the international research facility FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) is under construction. The accelerator complex aims for the production of a wide spectrum of high-intensity primary ion beams for a diverse range of scientific research fields and applications. The spectrum covers proton up to Uranium beams with different energies and with time structures between 100 ns and tens of seconds.

The transverse ion distribution is analysed with secondary-electron emission profile grids and multi-wire proportional chambers. Both detector types are equipped 64 wires per transverse plane.

For the connection of the 128 detector signals to the readout electronics about 350 low-noise 32-channel signal cables will be required. Wire currents cover 10 decades and range from 0.1 nA up to several Ampere for slow and fast pulses, respectively. These signal cables are to be produced and manufactured according to specification. This includes the production of 1500 meters of custom-specific multi-core cable as well as the manufacturing of the required numbers of signal cables in different lengths. For the heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100, additional 30 longer cables are to be manufactured. In this latter case, the low-noise multi-core cable is already available and will be delivered to the successful applicant by the GSI beam instrumentation department.

The competent investigating authority is as follows Vergabekammer des Bundes Villemombler Str. 76 D-53123 Bonn, Germany Tel.: 0228 9499-0 Fax: 0228 9499-163 Email: vk@bundeskartellamt.bund.de Web: http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Kontaktdaten/DE/Vergabekammern.html The applicant is requested to clearly identify those parts of the request to participate (and any subsequent bid) containing company/business secrets. If this does not happen, the public procurement tribunal will assume consent to inspect the documents as required in the case of carrying out a review procedure (Section 165 (3) Act against Restraints of Competition (Competition Act - GWB)). As the awarding authority, FAIR is required to provide the public procurement tribunal with immediate access to the files when a review procedure is initiated (Section 163 (2) sentence 3 GWB). Applicants/bidders have the right to demand that the Contracting authority comply with the provisions on the award procedure protecting bidders (Section 97 (6) GWB). Applicants/bidders with an interest in the public contract who believe their rights have been violated by non-compliance with the provisions governing the awarding of public contracts, must raise an objection about the violation to FAIR within ten calendar days (Section 160 (3) sentence 1 no. 1 GWB). Violations known from the tender notice or tender documents must be claimed vis-a-vis FAIR before the time limit given for submission of applications (offers) (Section 160 (3) 1 No. 2 - 3 GWB). If FAIR informs the applicant/bidder that it is unwilling to redress the objection, an application for review may then be filed with the public procurement tribunal above within 15 days of receipt of the notification (Section 160 (3) sentence 1 no. 4 GWB). Bidders whose bids are not to be considered for the award of the contract will be notified before the awarding of the contract pursuant to Section 134 GWB. A contract may only be concluded 15 calendar days after FAIR has sent out this information. This period is ten calendar days when transmission is by fax or email. The period commences on the day following the dispatch of the information by FAIR. After this time period has expired, an award is possible even if a time limit pursuant to Section 160 (3) GWB has yet to expire. Therefore, in order to prevent an award, a request for review needs to have been served upon FAIR by the public procurement tribunal before the expiry of the time limit under Section 134 GWB. Pursuant to Section 135 (1) and (2) GWB, the invalidity of an award can only be established if it has been asserted in the review procedure within 30 calendar days from the date on which there was notification on the conclusion of the agreement, though no later than six months after the agreement was concluded. If the Contracting authority published the tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the time limit for claiming ineffectiveness shall expire 30 calendar days after the publication of the tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union. Information pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR on the processing of your personal data within the scope of our business relationship is available at: www.gsi.de/data-protection

Evaluation criteria:
60% Price
40% Technical (50% Time and Delievery Schedule 50% technical criteria)

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The only form of submission of participation applications accepted by Awarding Authority is in writing, electronically Note: In Writing, Electronically Participation applications shall be submitted electronically within the deadline via the German awarding platform DTVP. URL: http://www.dtvp.de/Center/ The forms and other documents to be completed, provided by FAIR, may be - either completed on the online tendering tool under the section "Documents to Be Completed" or - created and compiled separately by Candidate together with the other components of the participation application or tender (concepts or explanations etc.), then uploaded under the heading "Own Documents". However, Candidates should not fill in the forms online and upload them again separately, as this can result in transmission errors and increases the workload on both sides. In order to comply with the text form (in writing) according to § 126b BGB [transl.: German Civil Code] when submitting participation applications, Candidates must provide the following information: - In the case of natural persons, the full name (first name and surname) must be given (name of the declaring person in the participation application form). - In the case of legal entities and commercial companies and corporations, the name of the company and its legal form must be stated. In addition, the full name of the employee who is submitting the participation application on behalf of the company (name of the declaring person in the participation application form) must be stated. The insertion of a company logo is not sufficient. - In the case of Bidding Consortia, the declaring person according to § 126b BGB shall be the employee of the leading member who submits the participation application on behalf of the Bidding Consortium; besides, the form "Bidding Consortium Declaration" must be submitted. It should be noted that in the case of electronic submission, the text form according to § 126b BGB is only observed if the participation applications are transmitted in encrypted form via the awarding platform (cf. information on eVergabe). Submitting the participation application via email is not sufficient. In the case of incorrect/ incomplete information that violates the aforementioned formal requirements, participation applications will be excluded unless Candidate cannot be held responsible (§ 57 para. 1 nr. 1, para. 3 VgV). FAIR reserves the right to negotiate only with the three Bidders whose initial tenders have received the highest scores in the preliminary evaluation. Note: Weighting: 50% price, 50% performance criteria (60% Concept to ensure all technical requirements, 15% Compliance with time schedule, 15% Compliance with Axxair Control, 10% Concept for stocking spare parts); points from 0-10. If company will be invited to negotiation, it is mandatory to present a dummy modell of a weld head to demonstrate that the handling within our confined installation space is possible. Note: Communication with Candidates Communication with Candidates takes place via the DTVP's tender platform. Questions must be sent to FAIR via DTVP and will are answered via DTVP. Questions posed orally or by telephone regarding the documents or the contractual object will not be answered; answers given orally or by telephone are not binding. ------------------------ Note: Electronic Invoicing "The XInvoicing format is accepted with additional transmission of the invoice as a -pdf-."

GSI/FAIR reserves the right to make a one-off additional request for documents within a period to be specified in the additional request letter in accordance with § 56 VgV.
However, applicants cannot rely on a subsequent request. Ultimately incomplete requests to participate will be excluded (§ 57 Para. 1 No. 2, Para. 3 VgV).

Supporting documents:
- I. Participation - General declaration within the meaning of Section 126b (German Civil Code -BGB) (To be submitted with by means of self-declaration): General declaration of the person making the declaration within the meaning of Section 126b BGB. If the person making the declaration is not named in the request to participate, the request to participate will be deemed to have not been submitted.

- II. Company presentation (To be submitted with by means of self-declaration): "With the information asked for on the FAIR preprinted form, the number of employees over the previous three years - on the FAIR preprinted form under Company presentation"

- II.I Information on overall revenues and order-specific revenue (To be submitted with by means of self-declaration): Declaration of the total company turnover and the turnover in relation to the particular type of service to which the award relates, in both cases, in relation to the last 3 financial years - on the