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