Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Eighty-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
        • a) the three-hundred-and-eighty-seventh meeting
        • b) the three-hundred-and-eighty-eighth meeting
      • 3
        Matters arising from the previous meeting
      • 4
        Briefing by the President of Council (Oral)
      • 5
        Financial and budgetary matters for 2023 (Mr R. Bello)
        • a) Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States
        • b) Status of the budget and actual expenses
      • 6
        Financial and budgetary matters for 2024
        • a) The Cost-Variation Index for 2024 (Dr F. Sonnemann)
        • b) Budget of the Organization for the seventieth financial year 2024
      • 7
        Audit Committee (AC) (Professor J. Schieck)
        • a) Report on the AC meeting held on 27 and 28 November 2023 (Oral)
        • b) Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee
      • 8
        Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 15 November 2023 (Prof. B. Åsman - Oral)
      • 9
        Proposed modifications of CERN's pre-retirement measures
      • 10
        Revision of the Staff Rules and Regulations
        • Leave in the event of illness of a close relative (Article R.II.4.27)
        • Duty travel (Article R.V.1.27)
        • Progressive retirement allowance (R V 1.31)
      • 11
        Proposal to postpone the start of the next five-yearly review of the financial and social conditions of members of the personnel
      • 11:20
        - - - COFFEE BREAK - - -
      • 12
        Pension Fund matters
    • - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
      • 13
        Reappointment of the FC Vice-Chair (Oral)
    • 12:30
      - - - LUNCH - - -
    • - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
      • 14
        Assessment by the Finance Committee of the FCC Feasibility Study mid-term review - 20-21 November 2023
      • 15
        Status of accelerators and experiments
        • a) Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral)
        • b) Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral)
      • 16
        New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley)
        • a) Proposal for the negotiation of extensions of existing blanket purchase contracts, without competitive tendering, for the supply of gases and the provision of gas distribution maintenance and operation services at CERN
        • b) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of support services for particle physics experiments at CERN
        • c) Proposal for the award of three contracts for the provision of technical support services at CERN
        • d) Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of ICT support and computing facilities operations on the CERN site
        • e) Proposal for the award of three contracts for the provision of remote agile application development services
        • f) Proposal for the award of two contracts for the supply of CO2 cooling plants and CO2 accumulators
        • g) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to, and open access publishing in, APS journals
        • h) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to the IEEE Electronic Library and open access publishing in IEEE journals
        • i) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of dispersion-strengthened copper bars for the HL-LHC collimators
        • j) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of low-voltage power chokes for POLARIS converters
        • k) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of low-voltage rectifier power transformers for POLARIS converters
        • l) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of power modules for the HL-LHC and PS consolidation projects
        • m) Proposal for the negotiation of an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of high-voltage thyratrons
        • n) Proposal for the award of three blanket purchase contracts for the supply of liquid nitrogen
        • o) Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of cold-containment material for the liquid argon cryostats for the DUNE/LBNF project
        • p) Proposal for the award of two contracts for the provision of site investigation work for the Future Circular Collider study at CERN
        • q) Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work for the construction of a new heating plant on the CERN Prévessin site
        • r) Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work for the renovation of the car park of Buildings 864 and 865 on the CERN Prévessin site
        • s) Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work for and the installation of an underground 66 kV transmission line and ducts for the fibre-optic infrastructure between LHC points 5 and 6
        • t) Proposal for the award of a contract for the operation of the CERN Housing service
        • u) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of flexible, low-voltage, single-core cables
        • v) Proposal for the negotiation of an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of vacuum gauges and gauge controllers
        • w) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for geographic information system software
        • x) Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of maintenance and support for asset management software
        • y) Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the refurbishment and upgrade of a dual-beam focused ion beam and scanning electron microscope
        • z) Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of 18/0.4 kV, 18/3.3 kV and 3.3/0.4 kV cast-resin dry-type power transformers
      • 17
        Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda
      • 18
        Other business
        • a) Revised timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2024
        • b) Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2025