The purpose of this call for tender is to design, plan, conduct and evaluate specific exercises for civil protection modules, technical assistance and support teams (TAST) and European Union civil protection teams (EUCPT) nominated by the participating States of the Union civil protection mechanism and deployable in civil protection missions under the mechanism, in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of the Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17.12.2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism.

This tender procedure is divided into 4 lots.

The overall objective for lots 1 to 3 is to define a base scenario of an international deployment for exercises for the personnel and equipment of registered civil protection modules/TAST, other capacities of the voluntary pool and EUCPT. On the basis of this scenario the objective is to design, plan, conduct and self-evaluate specific exercises for civil protection modules, TAST, and EUCPT in civil protection. Specific exercise needs are, among others, the effective work in an international environment (including international guidelines), achieving high levels of interoperability (focus on management of the modules), self-sufficiency (logistics arrangements), establishing effective communication systems, as well as fostering exchanges of information about equipment and performing command structures. The contractor(s) of lots 1 to 3 also need to do a self-evaluation of the conduct of the exercise in order to improve their own performance. Lessons learnt from the exercises shall be immediately integrated into the subsequent exercises. All exercises shall enhance the operational cooperation between the participating States' modules, TAST, as well as the EUCPT and also test the coordination of EU civil protection assistance in accordance with rules and regulations. The exchange of information of different equipment and of information of command structures and communication tools is also important. Moreover, the exercises need to recreate conditions of the international environment of mechanism interventions, including the interactions of modules, TAST, and EUCPT with humanitarian and other relevant international actors. The purpose of lot 4 (modules exercises evaluation) is the improvement of the Union civil protection mechanism as a whole (performance of duties, procedures, understanding, etc.) and the improvement of the methodology of module exercise planning and conducting exercises.