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

Name: Video-meeting: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Seventy-Ninth Meeting
Start: 2021-12-08T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-12-08T17:15:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 8 Dec 2021, 09:00 → 17:15 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/6523/Rev.
  English
  
  French
- 2
  Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-seventy-eighth meeting
  - CERN/FC/6524/RA
  English
  
  French
- 3
  Matters arising from the previous meeting
  CERN Master Plan 2040
  
  CERN Master Plan 2040
  
  Guide Developpement Interne CH territory
  
  Poster-CERN Masterplan 2040
- 4
  
  CERN report to COVID19 pandemic (Director-General - Oral)
  
  Slides
- 5
  
  Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
- 6
  Audit Committee (AC)
  - a) Report on the AC meeting held on 10 and 11 November 2021 (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - b) Questions to the AC
- 7
  Draft Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure of the CERN Finance Committee
  - CERN/FC/6525/RA
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
- 8
  Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) (Professor B. Åsman - Oral)
  - Report on the TREF meetings held on 14 October and 17 November 2021
  Report
  
  Slides
- 9
  2021 Five-Yearly Review - Proposals by the Management
  - CERN/FC/6526 CERN/3603
  English
  
  French
  
  Slides
  
  TREF Chair Slides
- 11:05
  
  Coffee break
- 10
  Status of accelerators and experiments
  - a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades, including EVM report on HL-LHC
    
    CERN/FC/6527/RA CERN/3607/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - b) Status on the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 11
  
  Energy and electricity management at CERN (Mr S. Claudet - Oral)
  
  Slides
- 12
  
  Electricity strategy and costs (Mr R. Bello - Oral)
  
  Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- 13
  CERN’s collaboration with national laboratories and beyond
  - a) Part 1: Accelerator technologies (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - b) Part 2: Detectors and computing (Professor J. Mnich - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 14
  
  Industrial strategy for CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative (Dr A. Di Meglio - Oral)
  
  Slides
- 15
  Financial and budgetary matters for 2021 and beyond
  - a) Status of 2021 contributions by the Member and Associate Member States
    
    CERN/FC/6528/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - b) 2021 status of budget and actual expenses
    
    CERN/FC/6532/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - c) Proposal for an expanded methodology for presenting the Organization’s financial and budgetary position
    
    CERN/FC/6529/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - d) The cost-variation index for 2022
    
    CERN/FC/6530 CERN/3605
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - e) Final budget of the Organization for the sixty-eighth financial year 2022
    
    CERN/FC/6531 CERN/3606
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 16
  Pension Fund matters
  - a) Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral)
    
    Fund Actuary's response to questions from Austrian Delegation
    
    Slides
  - b) Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 17
  New contract adjudications
  
  Slides
  - a) Proposal for a change of contractor for the provision of cleaning services on the French part of the CERN site
    
    CERN/FC/6533/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - b) Proposal for the negotiation of an amendment to an existing contract for the use of a 400 Gbit/s network between CERN and Amsterdam
    
    CERN/FC/6534/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - c) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract for the supply and maintenance of high-performance Ethernet routers
    
    CERN/FC/6535/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - d) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract for the supply and maintenance of high-performance Ethernet switches
    
    CERN/FC/6536/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - e) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract and to award a new blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply and maintenance of magnetic tape drives, libraries and cartridges for data storage
    
    CERN/FC/6537/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - f) Proposal to negotiate an extension of the contracts for the provision of open access publication services for SCOAP3
    
    CERN/FC/6538/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - g) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the final disposal of intermediate and low-level radioactive waste in France
    
    CERN/FC/6539/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - h) Proposal for the award of a contract for the design and construction of the new CMS control room building at LHC Point 5 in France
    
    CERN/FC/6540/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - i) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract for the radiation-hardness testing of electronic components at a proton irradiation facility
    
    CERN/FC/6541/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - j) Proposal for the award of a contract for the production and testing of 2kA-10V power converters for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
    
    CERN/FC/6542/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - k) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for the underground areas and surface buildings at Point 1 and Point 5 of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
    
    CERN/FC/6543/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - l) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of hydraulic systems and ancillary networks at Point 1 and Point 5 of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
    
    CERN/FC/6544/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - m) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of Nb-Ti cables for the magnet busbars for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project
    
    CERN/FC/6545/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - n) Proposal to negotiate an amendment to an existing collaboration agreement for the design, prototyping and testing of superconducting components for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project and for the follow-up of the production of spare quadrupole magnets for the LHC
    
    CERN/FC/6546/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - o) Proposal to negotiate an amendment to an existing blanket purchase contract for the supply of monolithic silicon pixel detector chips for the upgrade of the ALICE inner tracking system
    
    CERN/FC/6547/RA
    
    English
    
    French
- 18
  Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2023
  - CERN/3619
  English
- 19
  
  Other business