Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninetieth Meeting

Name: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Ninetieth Meeting
Start: 2024-03-20T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-03-20T17:50:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 09:00 → 17:50 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 09:00 → 12:00
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
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  - 09:00
    Adoption of the agenda 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6778/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:05
    Approval of the draft minutes of 10m
    
    the three-hundred-and-eighty-eighth meeting 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6742/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    the three-hundred-and-eighty-ninth meeting 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6779/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 09:15
    
    Matters arising from the previous meeting 10m
  - 09:25
    
    Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 10m
    
    Document for information: Key considerations on the governance of future flagship projects at CERN (CERN/3786)
  - 09:35
    Financial and budgetary matters 30m
    
    CERN Annual Progress Report 2023 20m
    
    CERN/SPC/1231/RA CERN/FC/6780/RA CERN/3801/RA
    
    English
    
    Slides
    
    Status of payment of the contributions by the Member and Associate Member States 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6781/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 10:05
    Audit Committee (AC) (Professor J. Schieck) 25m
    
    Report on the AC meeting held on 28 February 2024 (Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    AC – Annual activity report 2023 14m
    
    CERN/FC/6782/RA CERN/3804/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Questions from the Finance Committee to the Audit Committee 1m
  - 10:30
    
    - - - COFFEE BREAK - - - 30m
  - 11:00
    Pension Fund matters 30m
    
    Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Dr F. Buzatu - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
    
    Investment performance report and other Pension Fund activities (Mr D. Heron - Oral) 15m
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    FCC Feasibility Study: the next steps (Dr M. Benedikt - Oral) 30m
    
    Slides
- 12:00 → 12:20
  - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  - 12:00
    The financial contribution of Ukraine to CERN for 2024 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6783/RA CERN/3808/C
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    FC Vice-Chair recommendation to Council 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6784/RA
    
    English
    
    French
- 12:20 → 13:45
  
  - - - LUNCH - - - 1h 25m
- 13:45 → 17:50
  - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 13:45
    Status of accelerators and experiments 45m
    
    Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (Dr M. Lamont - Oral) 20m
    
    Slides
    
    Status of the experiments and computing (Prof. J. Mnich) 25m
    
    Slides
    
    Document: Proposal to appoint students from Non-Member States for the Next Generation Triggers Project
  - 14:30
    Relations with industrial stakeholders 45m
    
    Report on knowledge transfer in 2023 (Dr G. Anelli - Oral) 15m
    
    Report on Knowledge Transfer in 2023
    
    Slides
    
    Update from the ILO Forum (Dr J. Visser - Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
    
    Report on procurement activities in 2023 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6785/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 15:15
    
    Tea break 20m
  - 15:35
    Revision of the Financial Rules – Procurement Rules 1h 5m
    
    CERN/FC/6786/RA
    
    English
    
    Slides
  - 16:40
    New contract adjudications (Mr C. Hartley) 1h
    
    Slides
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of high-voltage power cable 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6787/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply and installation of a 38 MVA 66/18 kV power transformer 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6788/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of automatic gas and oxygen deficiency detection systems 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6789/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the maintenance and operation of cooling, ventilation and associated systems on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6790/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of three contracts for the provision of safety assistance and operational safety services on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6791/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate extensions of two blanket purchase contracts for the supply of automation systems and fieldbus equipment 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6792/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of electronic units for the active magnetic bearings of the LHC cold compressor system 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6793/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of Nb3Sn superconducting wire for the high-field magnet R&D programme 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6794/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate a collaboration agreement for the development of high-temperature superconducting REBCO technology for the high-field magnet R&D programme 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6795/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of two contracts for the supply of magnet systems for high-field wire critical-current measurements 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6796/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the treatment of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste by melting 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6797/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of injectable containers for the disposal of radioactive waste 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6798/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the provision of architectural and engineering consultancy services for the renovation and extension of the central workshop (Buildings 100 and 72) on the Swiss part of CERN’s Meyrin site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6799/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the renovation of Building 36 on the French part of CERN's Meyrin site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6800/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the renovation of Building 60 on the Swiss part of CERN's Meyrin site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6801/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the civil engineering work for the construction of Building 3586 (SF58) at LHC point 5 in Cessy (France) 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6802/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply, installation and commissioning of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical equipment for a new centralised heating plant on CERN’s Prévessin site in France 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6803/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the operation of a service desk at CERN 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6804/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of two contracts for the provision of remote agile application development services 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6805/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal to negotiate an extension of the contracts for the provision of open access publication services for SCOAP3 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6806/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of semiconductor power stacks for POLARIS converters 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6807/RA
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Proposal for the award of a contract for the supply of CO2 distribution manifolds for the CMS Phase 2 upgrade 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6808/RA
    
    English
    
    French
  - 17:40
    
    Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda 5m
  - 17:45
    
    Other business 5m