Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-20
Buyer: DSB
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48211000 | 72000000 | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services
Estimated value: 42000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-04-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The purpose of the public procurement procedure is delivery, support, hypercare, maintenance and further development of an IT-platform for future planning and dispatching. The platform for future planning and dispatching must support DSB in a better, faster and more agile planning and dispatching process.
I. Background and purpose DSB (Danish State Railway) is an independent public corporation owned by the Danish Ministry of Transport.
DSB’s goal is to offer attractive journeys by train to our customers. Annually DSB has more than 195 million passengers and employs approximately 7 400 people. Historically the end-to-end planning process of DSB has followed a sequential “waterfall” model. The process makes it difficult and costly to react to changes. The Danish railway infrastructure is undergoing large changes, such as new tracks and speed upgrades, electrification and exchange of the signalling system across the entire national network to ETCS and for S-train CBTC technology and replacement of a significant part of the current fleet. These changes drive the need for a faster and more agile planning process. In addition to these changes, DSB have the needs is under ongoing political expectations for continuous improvement of the train service quality and costs and a significant part of these improvements are related to DSB’s capabilities
within planning. Therefore, DSB needs an ITSolution for future planning and dispatching that ensures informed planning decisions based on in-depth understanding of consequences of decisions for the final plan and dispatching. The scope that the IT-Solution for future planning must cover is:
— planning within DBS’s fields of rolling stock and crew including derived process and system integration,
The IT-Solution for future planning and dispatching will hold a central place in DSB’s complex system landscape why the implementation of the solution for future planning is assumed to take place with close cooperation with DSB utilizing an agile approach. In addition, the central role entails that the Solution for future planning will have a considerable number of integrations to existing DSB systems, not solely in the planning and dispatching process.
The following main services can be highlighted covered by the contract on the Solution: II Main services:
B) Implementation of a standard solution delivered in partial deliveries structured by discipline and time horizon where each partial delivery is delivered in iterations using an agile method and implemented in a third-party operations environment;
C) Maintenance and support of a solution which demands a very high degree of stability and further development of the solution focusing on innovation to ensure a solution that is fully up-to date and consultancy regarding the solution.
DSB can extend the Contract for an additional period of 72 months. In addition, DSB can extend the Contract for a further period of 12 months in accordance with clause 43 of the Contract.
The limitation of candidates invited to tender will take place after an evaluation of which candidates have documented the most relevant references of deliveries, see section III.1.3), of the “Main services” covered by the contract, which is listed in section II.2.4). The evaluation of the most relevant deliveries will be made on the basis of the extent to which the references document experience with delivery of “Main Services” comparable in terms of needs, requirements and volume to the main services covered by the contract, see the description in sections II.1.4) and II.2.4). The assessment of which candidates have documented the most relevant references will be based on an overall assessment of whether all the references together document a high degree of relevant experience, see above.
1) DSB want an option for a Mobile Solution. The Supplier must upon DSB’s request provide a mobile solution, available across mobile devices, with tailored information relevant for specific type of employees as a supplement and mirror to the Crew Web;
2) DSB want an option for a bidding functionality. The Supplier must upon DSB’s request provide a bidding functionality for the crew rostering module. The bidding functionality includes a forum, where crew can exchange duties and have their salary updated according to these changes. The bidding functionality must function according to any rules or business needs.
As regards section I.3) DSB has restricted the free, direct and full access to a limited part of the tender material due to confidential nature of data in the PoC. The data is made available subject to submission of signed NDA’s as specified in tender specifications.
The candidate must submit a completed version of the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD), including part IV, section B, with the following information:


Award value: 42000000