The envisaged procurement channel will cover services to support the development and maintenance activities of Scientific IT tools supporting the regulatory processes currently entrusted to ECHA without preclusion of those that shall or are in the process of being entrusted to ECHA, on the basis of the EU chemicals legislation. This call for tenders is inter-institutional. The lead contracting authority is the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki (ECHA) acting as an agent for the participating entities for the purposes of managing the call for tenders and resulting framework contract. The European Commission, assisted by its Directorate-General for Environment (ENV), is a participating entity and contracting authority in the framework contract.

Primary channel for RUN and GROW initiatives, primarily covering IT services on project-based activities covering the enhancement of existing products and delivery of established services such as keeping the products up and running, address changes, fixes and user support activities.

The legal basis for the increase of the ceiling is point 11.1.e) and 11.4 of Annex I to the Financial Regulation (Regulation 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).