Central Purchasing Body. Central Purchasing Body “means a contracting authority providing centralised purchasing activities and, possibly, ancillary purchasing activities” (ref. xxxxx://xxx-xxx.xxxxxx.xx/xxxxx-xxxxxxx/XX/XXX/XXX/?xxx=XXXXX:00000X0000&xxxx=XX Official Journal of the European Union, DIRECTIVE 2014/24/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC). The Central Purchasing Body is responsible for (ref. SIGMA Papers n.47): • The Provision of goods and services; • Organising tendering processes and evaluate the proposal, in view of improve cost-efficiency; • Streamlining of procurement processes; • Establishing efficient and attractive framework agreements and call-off systems for users and suppliers; • Minimising risks by providing legal, technical, economic and contractual certainty to users; • Offering high-level competence and professionalism in all key aspects of the CPB’s operations; • Taking into considerations Reporting activities and Minutes of the Management Board; • Implementing the decisions of the Management Board; • The CPB has to follow the Annual Plan approved by the Management Board and stay inside budgetary limits set by Management Board; • Producing monthly and quarterly reports on financial aspects; • Managing the contractor; • Declaring to the Management Board any defaulting CA; • Stopping access to services for a defaulting CA; • Reactivating access to services for a defaulting CA under decision of the MB; • Budget Plan; • Costs monitoring; • Quarterly reports for evidences from budget consumes and objectives reached; • Guaranteeing the operational level of the RINA Handover process, which takes care of the Project reporting, monitoring the Annual plan results; • The Management Board must validate the activities of the Contractor; • The CPB shall not exceed the maximum yearly budget as set out by the MB in any circumstances.
