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

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

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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    • 1
      Adoption of the agenda
    • 2
      Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-seventy-fourth meeting
    • 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)
    • 6
      Status of accelerators and experiments
      • a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
      • b) Status report on experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral)
    • 7
      Financial and budgetary matters
      • a) Annual Progress Report for 2020
      • b) Status for 2021: Status of payment of 2021 contributions by the Member and Associate Member States
      • c) Status for 2021: Expenses (Oral)
      • d) Status for 2021: Cash position (Oral)
      • e) Information on the Medium-Term Plan for the period 2022-2026 (Director-General - Oral)
    • 11:30
      Coffee break
    • 8
      Audit Committee (AC)
      • a) Report on the AC meeting held on 1 March 2021 (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral)
      • b) AC – Annual activity report 2020
    • 9
      CERN Pension Fund
      • a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral)
      • b) Investment performance report (Mr M. Eyton-Jones - Oral)
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 10
      Relationship with industrial stakeholders
    • 11
      Contract adjudications
      • a) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of flexible low-voltage multicore copper cables
      • b) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of flexible cryostats for the superconducting links for the High-Luminosity LHC project
      • c) Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for research and development on advanced high-temperature-superconductor-coated conductors for high-field magnets
      • d) Proposal for the award of two contracts for the supply of low-temperature trans-critical primary refrigeration systems
      • 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
      • f) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of air handling units
      • 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
      • h) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply and installation of pipework for minor works on the CERN site
      • i) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of coupling-loss-induced quench units for the High-Luminosity LHC project
      • j) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of concrete shielding blocks and beams
      • k) Proposal for the award of a contract for façade and roof renovation
      • l) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of access to quantum computing hardware
      • m) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to and open access publishing in APS journals
    • 12
      Other Business