The EC has published a call for tender related to health and high risk insurance — Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Instrument for Stability.

The framework contract is to provide insurance to CFSP special advisers, their international staff members and seconded staff, and staff members working for crisis management operations financed under the Instrument for Stability, to cover medical care, accidental death and disability, evacuation and repatriation, abduction and unlawful detention, income protection, assistance, luggage and public liability.

The deadline for receipt of applications will be next 15/12/2008.

Funding

CFSP and Instrument for Stability budget (chapters 19.03 and 19.06 of the general budget of the European Communities). The indicative estimated annual value of the specific contracts implementing this framework contract will range between EUR 7,000,000 and EUR 12,000,000.