Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninety-Ninth Meeting

Europe/Zurich
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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    • - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
      • 1
        Adoption of the agenda
      • 2
        Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-ninety-seventh meeting
      • 3
        Matters arising from the previous meeting
      • 4
        Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
      • 5
        Financial and budgetary matters
        • a) Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States and Status of 2025 budget and actual expenses (Mr R. Bello)
        • b) Information on the Cost-Variation Index for 2026 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
      • 6
        Audit Committee (AC)
        • a) Report on the AC meeting held on 2 and 3 September 2025 (Professor J. Schieck - Oral)
        • b) Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee
      • 7
        Pension Fund matters
        • a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral)
        • b) Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral)
        • c) Actuarial dashboard as at 1 July 2025 (AON)
      • 10:25
        Coffee break
      • 8
        Status of accelerators and experiments
        • a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
        • b) Status of the experiments and computing (Professor J. Mnich - Oral)
      • 9
        Assessment by the Finance Committee of the FCC Feasibility Study Final Report – 8-9 September 2025
        Amended version - CERN/FC/6933/RA/Rev.
        CERN/FC/6933/RA
      • 10
        Progress on FCC funding prospects (Director-General - Oral)
    • 12:20
      Lunch
    • - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
      • 11
        Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-ninety-seventh meeting - Closed session
      • 12
        Status of the Associate Member State contribution arrears (Ms C. Warakaulle)
      • 13
        Appointment of a new FC Vice-Chair
    • - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
      • 14
        Update on the site maintenance and consolidation and new buildings programme (Dr M. Capeans - Oral)
      • 15
        CERN’s Fourth Environment Report (B. Delille)
      • 16
        Update from the ILO Forum (Dr J. Visser, Chair of the ILO Forum - Oral)
      • 15:25
        Tea break
      • 17
        New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley)
        • a) Proposal for the award of a contract for the maintenance and operation of cooling and ventilation systems on the CERN site
        • b) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the retrofit of a vacuum brazing furnace
        • c) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of the LHC voice alarm system
        • d) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the organisation of a public debate in France with a view to a possible Future Circular Collider
        • e) Proposal to negotiate extensions of the existing contracts for the transmission of electricity and an extension of the existing contract for the back-up supply of electricity to CERN
        • f) Proposal to negotiate a contract, without competitive tendering, for the overhaul of 14 existing helium screw compressors
        • g) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of ultra-high-vacuum sputter ion pumps
        • h) Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of Nb3Sn and HTS high-field dipole magnets
        • i) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of and support for campus Ethernet switches
        • j) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licenses, maintenance and support for engineering simulation software tools
        • k) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for a human capital management solution
        • l) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of execution design and construction works for the new tertiary Building 777 on CERN’s Prévessin site in France
        • m) Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work package for the construction of a heat recovery network from the LHC Point 1 cooling towers to the Meyrin heating plant
        • n) Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work package for the renovation and extension of CERN’s central workshop
        • o) Proposal for the award of a contract for the electrical engineering work package for the renovation and extension of CERN’s central workshop
        • p) Proposal for the award of a contract for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning work package for the renovation and extension of CERN’s central workshop
        • q) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of 20 transmitters for the HL-LHC high-power radiofrequency system
        • r) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of two klystron-based high-power radiofrequency systems
        • s) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of three 352 MHz klystrons for Linac4
      • 18
        Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda
      • 19
        Other business