Tender Specifications - ECHA - Europa

IUCLID (LOT 3)
IUCLID 5 plays a central role in the IT environments of all organisations that have to cope with data
submission requirements of REACH and other programmes (OECD HPV, EU Biocides and others).
Industry stakeholders, EU Member States, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and any
other interested party obtain the IUCLID installation kit from the IUCLID 5 website; once installed,
the local IUCLIDs are the essential tool to capture & store, submit, and exchange data on chemical
substances stored according the format of the OECD Harmonized Templates. IUCLID 5 was first
release in June 2007. Maintenance and further development of IUCLID 5 are foreseen to happen in
the coming years, as well as a revision of the software architecture leading to a new version
release i.e. IUCLID 6.
The implementation of IUCLID 5 was first assigned to a Contractor in November 2004 to perform
the development at the Contractor’s premises. After the completion of the release of IUCLID 5.0 in
June 2007, the progressive maintenance of the application was performed by the same Contractor
until February 2011 with the release of IUCLID 5.3. Work for the continuation of the project
(progressive maintenance) was then assigned to another Contractor, who is currently working on
further developing the system at his own premises. During the execution of the project and until
now, the testing is being performed both at JRC/ECHA premises by the business team units and by
the main representatives of industry through the OECD IUCLID working group.
CHESAR (LOT 3)
It is an IT tool to support industry in preparing their Chemical Safety Assessment/Report which is to
be submitted as part of their registration dossiers. It also supports the generation of exposure
scenarios to be annexed to Safety Data Sheet. The requirements underpinning CHESAR were
specified by internal staff of the Agency working in close collaboration with industry stakeholders.
A team of intra-muros consultants began software development in 2009 and produced Chesar 1.0
and 1.1 in 2010 and Chesar 1.2 in 2011. Chesar 2 is now being developed (again by a team of
intra-muros consultants) to better support the needs of registrants and to facilitate the extension of
the application in the future. This version will then be expanded to provide additional functionalities.
In particular the link with additional exposure estimation tools will have to be developed in the
future.
At the start of 2012 it is foreseen that a new Contractor will take over responsibility for the
development, testing and subsequent maintenance of Chesar 2. During the first part of 2012 the
new Contractor will work on site at ECHA. They will then continue working off site. It is currently
envisaged that at the beginning of 2013 another transition period will take place in which a new
Contractor (based on the results of the relevant procurement process) will take over and
continue development, testing and maintenance activities.
ODYSSEY (LOT 3)
It is a system supporting ECHA in dossier evaluation by providing efficient instructions, consistency
and reporting tools for the assessment tasks carried out by the scientific officers.
The design and requirements specification were driven by a team mixing internal staff and intramuros
consultants during 2009 and first half of 2010. The proof of concept was made available in
July 2009. The implementation was assigned to a team of intra-muros consultants in Spring 2010.
Currently the system is both supported in production since February 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.
A number of new versions have been deployed in production. The release plan of the subsequent
versions has been set until Q1/2013. Beyond this, there will be a need to support the system in
production and any potential further development.
DATA INTEGRATION PROJECT (impacting systems of all lots)
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