Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-08-26
Buyer: DSB
Country: DK
Region: DK012
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48180000 | 48210000 | 72000000 | 72212211
Estimated value: 420000000 DKK

Technical requirements: DSB is planning to procure a new Inventory Management solution for managing seat reservations and rail inventory (commercial availability). The Solution must be able to handle train configuration on different train types and manage seating plans for the trains received from planning systems and relevant timetable systems. The Solu-tion must be able to perform seat reservations and allocation dynamically and share this information as well as inventory availability with other relevant DSB systems. Seat enquiries from other operators, currently connected via Hermes/Heros, must be handled in the Solution.  The purpose is to procure a standard solution provided as a SaaS solution of an Inventory Management Solution to replace the current system (Plads90). The Solution will provide the Customers of DSB the ability of handling seat reservations on trains when booking a ticket in the solution.
In accordance with the Act on the Complaints Board for Tenders etc., the following deadlinesapply for lodging a complaint:
Complaints about not having been selected must be submitted to the Complaints Board forTenders within 20 calendar days, cf. section 7, subsection of the act. 1, from the day after sendinga notification to the affected applicants about who has been selected, when the notification isaccompanied by a justification for the decision in accordance with section 2, subsection of the Act.1, no. 1, and Section 171(1) of the Public Procurement Act. 2.
In other situations, a complaint must be made about tenders, cf. the act's section 7, subsection 2,be submitted to the Complaints Board for Tenders before:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal ofthe European Union that the contracting authority has entered into a contract. The deadline iscalculated from the day after the day on which the order has been published.
2) 30 calendar days counted from the day after the day on which the contracting authority hasnotified the affected tenderers that a contract based on a framework agreement with re-opening ofthe competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into, if the notification hasgiven a reason for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting authority has entered into a framework agreement calculatedfrom the day after the day on which the contracting authority has notified the affected applicantsand tenderers, cf. section 2, subsection of the Act. 2, and Section 171(1) of the PublicProcurement Act. 4.4) 20 calendar days counted from the day after the contracting authority hascommunicated its decision, cf. section 185, subsection of the Public Procurement Act. 2, 2nd point
At the latest at the same time as a complaint is submitted to the Complaints Board for Tenders,the complainant must notify the contracting authority in writing that a complaint is being submittedto the Complaints Board for Tenders and whether the complaint has been submitted during the standstill period, cf. section 6, subsection of the act. 4. In cases where the complaint has not beensubmitted during the standstill period, the complainant must also indicate whether suspensiveeffect of the complaint is requested, cf. section 12, subsection of the Act. 1.
DSB may notify the Supplier in writing at least 6 months prior to the expiry of the Contract, cf. 40.1, of DSB’s desire to extend the Contract for up to 3 additional peri-od of 48 months, up to a total of 144 months, cf. clause 14. The extension(s) shall be on the same terms and conditions, in effect at the initial expiry of the Contract.


Winner: Sqills Products BV
Number of bids: 2