The European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society and Media has launched a call for tenders to use performance indicators in monitoring the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) research in the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (FP6/FP7).

The work aims to:
- develop a monitoring system to collect data related to performance indicators adopted in the activity-based management (ABM) context (for 2008 onwards);
- cleaning up the data collected in 2006, 2007, 2008;
- performing a pilot assessment of the performance of ICT research through state-of-the-art scientometric approaches and methodologies such as patent analysis, bibliometrics, co-patenting, co-publication, citation analysis, etc. This will also include some 'network analysis'-based work to analyse the effectiveness of the ICT research collaboration links.

For further information, please contact:

European Commission
Information Society and Media DG
Directorate C - Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society
attn: Mr Peter Johnston
Head of Unit
BU25 2/137
B-1049 Brussels

Contact:
Mr Costas Paleologos
Tel +32 2 296 89 72
Fax +32 2 296 66 13
E-mail: Contact

Full details of call on TED

Please note: The deadline for requesting tender documents is 29 September 2008. The deadline for submitting tender documents is 6 October 2008.

Before contacting the Commission, tenderers are strongly advised to consult the original call text in the Official Journal of the European Union at the reference below:

Official Journal of the European Union - OJ No S 174-231772 of 9 September 2008