Video-meeting: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Seventy-Fifth Meeting

Name: Video-meeting: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Seventy-Fifth Meeting
Start: 2021-03-24T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-24T15:35:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 24 Mar 2021, 09:00 → 15:35 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 1
  Adoption of the agenda
  - CERN/FC/6470/Rev.
  English
  
  French
- 2
  Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-seventy-fourth meeting
  - CERN/FC/6471/RA
  English
  
  French
- 3
  
  Matters arising from the previous meeting
- 4
  
  Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
- 5
  
  CERN response to COVID-19 pandemic (Director-General - Oral)
  
  Slides
- 6
  Status of accelerators and experiments
  - a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - b) Status report on experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 7
  Financial and budgetary matters
  - a) Annual Progress Report for 2020
    
    CERN/SPC/1152/RA CERN/FC/6472/RA CERN/3553/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - b) Status for 2021: Status of payment of 2021 contributions by the Member and Associate Member States
    
    CERN/FC/6473/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
  - c) Status for 2021: Expenses (Oral)
    
    Slides
  - d) Status for 2021: Cash position (Oral)
  - e) Information on the Medium-Term Plan for the period 2022-2026 (Director-General - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 11:30
  
  Coffee break
- 8
  Audit Committee (AC)
  - a) Report on the AC meeting held on 1 March 2021 (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - b) AC – Annual activity report 2020
    
    CERN/FC/6474/RA CERN/3555/RA
    
    English
    
    French
- 9
  CERN Pension Fund
  - a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - b) Investment performance report (Mr M. Eyton-Jones - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- 10
  Relationship with industrial stakeholders
  - a) Report on knowledge transfer in 2020 (Dr G. Anelli - Oral)
    
    Brochure-From CERN to Aerospace
    
    Knowledge Transfer 2020 Highlights
    
    Slides
  - b) Update from the ILO Forum (Mr Ole Petter Nordahl, Vice-Chair of ILO Forum - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - c) Report on procurement activity in 2020
    
    CERN/FC/6475/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 11
  Contract adjudications
  
  Slides
  - a) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of flexible low-voltage multicore copper cables
    
    CERN/FC/6476/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - b) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of flexible cryostats for the superconducting links for the High-Luminosity LHC project
    
    CERN/FC/6477/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - c) Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for research and development on advanced high-temperature-superconductor-coated conductors for high-field magnets
    
    CERN/FC/6478/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - d) Proposal for the award of two contracts for the supply of low-temperature trans-critical primary refrigeration systems
    
    CERN/FC/6479/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - e) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and smoke extraction systems for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project
    
    CERN/FC/6480/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - f) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of air handling units
    
    CERN/FC/6481/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - g) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of primary and demineralised water cooling systems, sump raising systems, a firefighting network and pipework for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project
    
    CERN/FC/6482/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - h) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply and installation of pipework for minor works on the CERN site
    
    CERN/FC/6483/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - i) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of coupling-loss-induced quench units for the High-Luminosity LHC project
    
    CERN/FC/6484/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - j) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of concrete shielding blocks and beams
    
    CERN/FC/6485/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - k) Proposal for the award of a contract for façade and roof renovation
    
    CERN/FC/6486/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - l) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of access to quantum computing hardware
    
    CERN/FC/6487/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - m) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to and open access publishing in APS journals
    
    CERN/FC/6488/RA
    
    English
    
    French
- 12
  
  Other Business