Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below
Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 32 Clause 2 (b) (ii)
The Economic Operator (EO) works exclusively in issues dealing with innovation and technology and also has hands-on experience
working within the industry, Authorities. Thus, the standing, skillset, experience, expertise and knowledge, which the EO possesses are
unique, even for European standards. The EO has been instrumental in setting up the MDIA, the enabling policy and legislation as well as
the operative guidelines since he was involved with the Authority even before its official inception.
As an Authority, we cannot resort to a Call for Tender process or an Expression of Interest due to the lack of sectorial knowledge in this
specific and highly sought domain as well as the spread of multi-faceted experience and track record which is uniquely provided by EO.
If there are any other individuals thatthe Authority knows of and possess similar talents, MDIA would be eager to engage them since, for
the past three (3) years, we were always on the lookout to recruit such people and also issued calls to this extent; however, we have never
managed to find the same level of knowledge, skillset and expertise we found in EO.