Assistance and insurance services for officials on mission travelling for business purposes in their own country of posting or in any other country in the world.

The contract comprises 2 intrinsically complementary sections: a first standard 'assistance' section (including in high-risk situations) and a second 'additional life/disability insurance' section. This insurance must cover all staff of the institutions, bodies and agencies, irrespective of their place of posting (European Union or outside the European Union), even though the main place of posting is Brussels.

This invitation to tender is organised on an interinstitutional basis. The contracting authority responsible for the procedure is the European Commission. The Commission, representing the institutions, will make a single award decision for all of them. Then, an interinstitutional service contract will be signed by the European Commission, represented by the Director of the PMO. The Director will be the principal contractee, responsible for managing the contract, and representing in this regard all the participating contracting authorities. The operational aspects of the contract will fall to each participating contracting authority acting in complete autonomy.

This contract shall apply to all the institutions, bodies and agencies designated as contracting authorities below which have given a mandate in this regard. This list will not be altered unless a new institution, body or agency of the European Union is created, which will become autonomous subsequent to this contract being launched.

In such cases, these new institutions could also benefit from the services under the contract on condition that, on the one hand, they are authorised by the Commission on the basis of information regarding their legal personality and the legal basis of their creation and, on the other hand, that the value of any future contracts would not exceed 10 % of the contract volume (all institutions, bodies and agencies taken together). The rider enabling this new institution to join the contract will be signed and managed by the Commission.

The following institutions, bodies and agencies are involved:

— the European Commission,

— the European Parliament,

— the Council of the European Union,

— the European External Action Service (EEAS),

— the Court of Auditors,

— the Court of Justice,

— the Committee of the Regions (CoR),

— the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC),

— the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT),

— the European Ombudsman,

— the European Banking Authority (EBA),

— the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS),

— the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER),

— the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)

— the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop),

— the European Police College (CEPOL),

— the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA),

— the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME),

— the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (Chafea),

— the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA),

— the European Asylum Support Office (EASO),

— the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC),

— the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA),

— the European Defence Agency (EDA),

— the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA),

— the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),

— the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE),

— the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA),

— the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT),

— the European Medicines Agency (EMA),

— the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA),

— the European Railway Agency (ERA),

— the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA),

— the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA),

— the European Training Foundation (ETF),

— the European Police Office (Europol),

— the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),

— the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex),

— the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs (OHIM)),

— the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA),

— the Research Executive Agency (REA),

— the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA),

— the European GNSS Agency (GSA),

— the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO),

— the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking,

— the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking,

— the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy,

— the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI),

— the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking,

— the ENIAC Joint Undertaking,

— the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA).