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

Name: Video-meeting: Finance Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Seventy-Fourth Meeting
Start: 2020-12-09T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-12-09T15:50:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 9 Dec 2020, 09:00 → 15:50 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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- 09:00 → 09:05
  Adoption of the agenda 5m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - CERN/FC/6442
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- 09:05 → 09:15
  Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-seventy-third meeting 10m
  - CERN/FC/6443/RA
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  French
- 09:15 → 09:20
  
  Matters arising from the previous meeting 5m
- 09:20 → 09:30
  
  Briefing by the President of Council (Oral) 10m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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- 09:30 → 09:45
  
  CERN response to COVID-19 pandemic (Director-General - Oral) 15m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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- 09:45 → 10:00
  Status of payment of 2020 contributions by the Member and Associate Member States 15m
  - CERN/FC/6444/RA
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- 10:00 → 10:15
  Cash position 15m
  - CERN/FC/6445/RA
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- 10:15 → 10:25
  
  Update on the cumulative budget deficit (CBD) (Dr M. Steinacher - Oral) 10m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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- 10:25 → 10:35
  The Cost-Variation Index for 2021 10m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - CERN/FC/6446 CERN/3533
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- 10:35 → 10:50
  Final Budget of the Organization for the sixty-seventh financial year 2021 15m
  - CERN/FC/6447 CERN/3534
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- 10:50 → 11:05
  
  CERN - External Review Committee for FHR Implementation of recommendations and quantitative assessment of the cost savings (Dr M. Steinacher - Oral) 15m
  
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- 11:05 → 11:20
  
  Report by the Chair of the Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum (TREF) (Prof. B. Åsman - Oral) 15m
  
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- 11:20 → 11:40
  Proposed amendments to the 11th edition of the Staff Rules and Regulations - technical adjustments 20m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - CERN/FC/6448 CERN/3535
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- 11:40 → 12:00
  Proposed amendments to the Rules and Regulations of the Pension Fund and the CERN Health Insurance Scheme 20m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - CERN/FC/6449 CERN/3536
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- 12:00 → 12:15
  
  Audit Committee (AC) - Report on the AC meeting held on 17 November 2020 (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral) 15m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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- 13:45 → 14:15
  CERN Pension Fund 30m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - Report by the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (Mr O. Malmberg - Oral) 10m
    
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  - Investment performance report (Mr M. Eyton-Jones - Oral) 10m
    
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  - Dashboard on the evolution of the CERN Pension Fund as at 1 July 2020 (Buck) 20m
    
    CERN/FC/6450/RA
    
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- 14:15 → 14:45
  LHC Matters 30m
  - Status of LS2, LIU and HL-LHC (Dr F. Bordry - Oral) 10m
    
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  - Earned-value management (EVM) reports on the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) and High-Luminosity LHC Projects 10m
    
    CERN/FC/6451/RA CERN/3539/RA
    
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  - Status report on experiments and computing (Prof. E. Elsen - Oral) 10m
    
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- 14:45 → 15:30
  Contract adjudications 45m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a data centre on CERN’s Prévessin site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6453/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of three blanket purchase contracts for the supply of CPU servers for physics data processing 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6454/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of four blanket purchase contracts for the supply of serial-attached SCSI JBOD (external disk-based storage array) expansion units 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6455/RA
    
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  - Proposal for an extension of an existing contract covering supervisory control and data acquisition system licences and their maintenance 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6456/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of IEEE academic publication subscriptions and open access publishing 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6457/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the provision of subscriptions to and open access publishing in ELSEVIER journals 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6458/RA
    
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  - Proposal to negotiate the renewal of two blanket purchase contracts for the supply of automation systems and fieldbus equipment 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6459/RA
    
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  - Proposal to negotiate an amendment to an existing blanket purchase contract for the supply of control electronics and software 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6460/RA
    
    English
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of pre-fitted optical-fibre cables and terminal hardware 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6461/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of polyimide-insulated cryogenic instrumentation wire for the High-Luminosity LHC project 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6462/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the design, supply and experimental qualification of a series of superfluid helium heat exchangers for the D2 magnets for the High-Luminosity LHC project 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6463/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a blanket purchase contract for the supply of Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) shelves 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6464/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of two blanket purchase contracts for the supply of electronic components through a punch-out catalogue 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6465/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of two high-efficiency klystrons for the power upgrade of the X-band test facility 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6466/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the supply of cryogenic temperature sensors for the High-Luminosity LHC project and CERN test facilities 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6467/RA
    
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  - Proposal for the award of a contract, without competitive tendering, for the repatriation of the depleted uranium in the L3 hadron calorimeter modules to the Russian Federation 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6468/RA
    
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  - Proposal for a change of contractor for the provision of security and access control services on the CERN site 2m
    
    CERN/FC/6469/RA
    
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- 15:30 → 15:40
  Other Business 10m 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  503/1-001 - Council Chamber
  
  CERN
  
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  - Additional FC meeting on Tuesday 4 May 2021 - dedicated to discussion of the draft MTP 5m
  - Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2022 5m
    
    CERN/3541
    
    English