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

Name: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Eighty-Ninth Meeting
Start: 2023-12-13T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-12-13T16:15:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 13 Dec 2023, 09:00 → 16:15 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 09:00 → 12:15
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
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  - 09:00
    Adoption of the agenda 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6740/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:05
    Approval of the draft minutes of 10m
    
    the three-hundred-and-eighty-seventh meeting 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6741/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    the three-hundred-and-eighty-eighth meeting 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6742/RA/Draft
  - 09:15
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting 10m
  - 09:25
    
    Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
  - 09:35
    Financial and budgetary matters for 2023 (Mr R. Bello) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6743/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Status of the budget and actual expenses 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6777/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:45
    Financial and budgetary matters for 2024 30m
    
    The Cost-Variation Index for 2024 (Dr F. Sonnemann) 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6744 CERN/3772
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
    
    Budget of the Organization for the seventieth financial year 2024 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6745 CERN/3773
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    Audit Committee (AC) (Professor J. Schieck) 10m
    
    Report on the AC meeting held on 27 and 28 November 2023 (Oral) 8m
    
    Slides
    
    Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee 1m
  - 10:25
    
    Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) - Report on the meeting held on 15 November 2023 (Prof. B. Åsman - Oral) 15m
    
    TREF Chair's report to FC December 2023.pdf
  - 10:40
    Proposed modifications of CERN's pre-retirement measures 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6746/RA CERN/3769/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:55
    Revision of the Staff Rules and Regulations 10m
    
    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)
    
    CERN/FC/6747 CERN/3770
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 11:05
    Proposal to postpone the start of the next five-yearly review of the financial and social conditions of members of the personnel 15m
    
    CERN/FC/6748/RA CERN/3771/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 11:20
    
    - - - COFFEE BREAK - - - 25m
  - 11:45
    Pension Fund matters 30m
    
    Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral) 10m
    
    PFGB Response to Austrian Delegation Statement at FC 4 October 2023
    
    Slides
    
    Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    Review of factors used in the Rules and Regulations of the CERN Pension Fund 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6749 CERN/3768
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
- 12:15 → 12:25
  - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  - 12:15
    
    Reappointment of the FC Vice-Chair (Oral) 10m
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  - - - LUNCH - - - 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:15
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 14:00
    Assessment by the Finance Committee of the FCC Feasibility Study mid-term review - 20-21 November 2023 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6750/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
  - 14:20
    Status of accelerators and experiments 40m
    
    SPC Report to Finance Committee December 2023
    
    Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
    
    Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley) 1h
    
    Slides
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6751/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of support services for particle physics experiments at CERN 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6752/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of three contracts for the provision of technical support services at CERN 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6753/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of ICT support and computing facilities operations on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6754/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of three contracts for the provision of remote agile application development services 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6755/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of two contracts for the supply of CO2 cooling plants and CO2 accumulators 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6756/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to, and open access publishing in, APS journals 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6757/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6758/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of dispersion-strengthened copper bars for the HL-LHC collimators 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6759/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of low-voltage power chokes for POLARIS converters 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6760/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of low-voltage rectifier power transformers for POLARIS converters 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6761/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of power modules for the HL-LHC and PS consolidation projects 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6762/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the negotiation of an extension of an existing blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of high-voltage thyratrons 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6763/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of three blanket purchase contracts for the supply of liquid nitrogen 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6764/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of cold-containment material for the liquid argon cryostats for the DUNE/LBNF project 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6765/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of two contracts for the provision of site investigation work for the Future Circular Collider study at CERN 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6766/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6767/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6768/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6769/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the operation of the CERN Housing service 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6770/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of flexible, low-voltage, single-core cables 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6771/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6772/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of licences, maintenance and support for geographic information system software 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6773/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of an existing contract for the provision of maintenance and support for asset management software 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6774/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6775/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    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 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6776/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 16:00
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda 5m
  - 16:05
    Other business 10m
    
    Revised timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2024 5m
    
    CERN/3698/Rev.3
    
    English
    
    Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2025 5m
    
    CERN/3777/Draft
    
    English