PART 1  TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - WHAT DOES EFSA NEED TO  BUY THROUGH THIS PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE?  1.1 BACKGROUND The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), as the leading EU body of this call for tenders,  is the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety.  In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its  stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on  existing and emerging risks. Information about EFSA can be found under the following link:  http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/aboutefsa.  In particular EFSA is responsible for providing scientific advice on food safety to risk  managers (The European Commission and Member States) as stated in the EFSA Founding  Regulation (EC) 178/2002, subsequently amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1381.  To perform the above-mentioned activities with the most up-to-date information EFSA is  also responsible for collecting, connecting, collating, analysing and summarising relevant  scientific and technical data in the fields within its mission. Relevant data are mainly collected and submitted to EFSA by data providers including:  National Competent Authorities in the Member States and other European countries,  Academia, Research centres and industries.  In the remit of these activities EFSA has developed a full data collection pipeline which  consists of a Data Collection Framework (DCF) to collect and validate data through a  business rule engine application, an Extract-Transform-Load(ETL) process for data  integration activities and a Scientific Data Warehouse (SDWH) to address data needs in  terms of harmonisation, historization and accessibility.  When submitted to EFSA, scientific  data are managed by EFSA’s Evidence Management  (DATA) unit focusing on their validation and enrichment to allow:  EFSA’s DATA unit has established data management processes to facilitate: To perform these tasks EFSA has developed the Standard Sample Description data model,  now at its second version and hereinafter referred to as SSD2, complemented by the  updated version of Guidance on Data Exchange (Guidance on Data Exchange version 2 • provision and extraction of validated data,  • data analysis in the form of:  o analytical reports, graphs and maps, o documents, o self-service dietary exposure tools (e.g. FACE, FAIM, RACE) and o interactive infographics,  • data dissemination through the EFSA Knowledge Junction community on Zenodo  platform and other means. • data collection and collation, • data analysis and summarisation,  • data dissemination, 4 