Česká národní banka

Title, type and description of public contract

• Title: SWIFT Watch Premium
• Type of public contract: Services

Brief subject description:
The subject of the public contract is the provision of the SWIFT Watch Premium service, in particular the provision of access to the SWIFT database in the scope of the SWIFT Watch Premium service for the Contracting Authority’s staff. The subject of the contract also includes the provision of historical data in the scope of the SWIFT Watch Premium service in respect of the previous five years. More details on the subject of the public contract are given in Annex 1 to this Invitation – Contractual documentation.

Procedure type, estimated value

• Procedure type: negotiated procedure without prior publication
  Justification of using negotiated procedure:
  The reason for the use of a negotiated procedure without prior publication is that the subject of the public contract may only be provided by S.W.I.F.T. s.c., having its registered office at Avenue Adele 1, B-1310 La Hulpe, Belgium, company ID number: 0413.330.856 (hereinafter “SWIFT”), which is the only entity having exclusive, temporal, territorial or otherwise unrestricted authorisation to provide information contained in its databases, in this case specifically in respect of the SWIFT Watch Premium service. SWIFT is simultaneously the only global company operating a network for secure messaging between financial institutions through a standardised system of codes. In practice, the service is used mainly for making international payments through the SWIFTNet telecommunication network, which is used by more than 11,000 banks (including Czech ones) worldwide. Thanks to this role, SWIFT has a unique position in accessing all transactions executed through its network; for this reason, there is no other technical alternative to obtain the relevant data required by the Financial Market Supervision Department (FMSD) for effective supervision in the area of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).
  For the above reasons, the Contracting Authority applied a negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 63(3)(b) and (c) of the Act.
• Public contract regime: above-the-threshold
• Estimated value: n/a

Contracting authority

• Official name: Česká národní banka
• CRN: 48136450
• Postal address:
  Na Příkopě 28
  115 03 Praha 1
• Contracting authority profile identification in VVZ: 342165

Contact address

Tenders or requests to participate submit to:
via the E-ZAK electronic tool (https://ezak.cnb.cz/?lang=en).

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