Tender Specifications - ECHA - Europa

submitting and processing notifications on the export of all chemicals listed in Annex I to the
Regulation). In preparation for the changes including ECHA’s involvement which will be introduced
by the ongoing recast of the Regulation, the Commission has procured a contract to carry out
business analysis work on the recast proposal of the PIC regulation (COM (2011) 245 final) and
EDEXIM. The results are to support the development of a new version of EDEXIM (to support the
administrative and operational parts of the regulation), which is to be hosted and maintained by
ECHA. ECHA plans to outsource the development to an external Contractor in 2012.
RIPE (LOT 2)
It is an IT system that allows inspectors in the Member States to access selected data submitted to
ECHA. It helps the inspectors to enforce the obligations of REACH, for example to check if a
company has indeed registered a substance.
The design and requirements specification were driven by a team of internal staff during the
second half of 2009 and first quarter of 2010. The implementation was assigned to a team of intramuros
consultants in autumn 2010. The first version of RIPE (v1.0) was released in production at
the end of June 2011.
Currently the system is both supported in production since June 2011 and being further developed
by a team of intra-muros consultants whose composition is being updated based on the needs and
the running contracts. Work is planned until Q2/2012 to integrate additional functionality (e.g.
additional reports) and revamp the user interface. The extension of the scope and the further
development of the system beyond Q2/1012 will be discussed in Q1/2012.
DISSEMINATION (also called ECHA CHEM) (LOT 2)
It is implementing the aspects of the REACH regulation pertaining to making select data freely
available on the internet. The project started in 2009, and launched the first release of its portal in
December 2009, containing registration dossier data covering a few hundred substances. Now past
the 1st REACH deadline in 2010, the portal currently contains information on most registered
phase-in substances gathered from lead and individual submissions. Information from member
dossiers will come to complete the picture in mid Q4 2011. In late 2010, preparation of a public
Classification and Labelling inventory went underway, with a forecast launch Q4 2011. More
REACH processes will be covered in the future in order to lay the groundwork for a unique point of
access for substance information.
When the implementation started in January 2009 the project team was composed of internal staff
and an off site contractor. Later on the team got reinforced with intra-muros and off site
consultants. Currently, the system is operated in production and maintained by internal staff. In the
near future, the internal support team is foreseen to be reinforced with intra-muros and offsite
consultants for maintenance.
eCHEMPORTAL (LOT 2)
It is an IT tool that provides free public access to information on properties of chemicals and allows
simultaneous searching of reports and datasets by chemical name and number and by chemical
property.
The development of the systems was assigned to a Contractor in November 2008 to perform the
work at the Contractor’s premises. The contract was completed in November 2010. During the
execution of the project, the testing has been solely performed at the Contractor’s premises by a
team of ECHA. eCHEMPORTAL has been deployed in production in December 2010.
The hosting of the system has been outsourced (outside ECHA premises) since the beginning of its
lifetime in production (December 2010). Currently the application is in maintenance phase, but
further development may be required in the future (e.g. to improve the search functionalities of the
application).
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