Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-12-01
Buyer: Energinet Systemansvar A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72230000: Custom software development services
Estimated value: 100000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2021-12-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The tender concerns a framework agreement covering Application Management Services, including:  1. Application Development of Nordic RSC internally developed core business applications and broker system for integration as well as new business applications. 2. Application Operation and Maintenance  3. Application Support including on-call services growing to 24/7/365 over time 4. Project and Consultancy services
The Nordic Regional Security Coordinator (RSC) is the joint office for collaboration between the four electricity Transmission System Operators (TSOs) in the Nordic region (Energinet, Statnett, Fingrid, Svenska Kraftnät). Nordic RSC is an integral part of the supply-critical value chain of electricity and supports the national TSOs in maintaining the operational security of the power systems across Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, as well as help optimize the availability of the Green Nordic Power Grid.
Nordic RSC (Energinet) is currently in the preparation phase for a tender of a framework agreement covering Application Management Services.
The development department uses, amongst others, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, MongoDB, .NET 5, C#, TPL Data Flow and various Azure Stack services.
The time spent handling three categories of tasks is roughly distributed as follows: 20% application support, 10% maintenance tasks and 70% development tasks. Most of the maintenance is handled as part of Incidents or changes.
The Contracting Authority wants to establish a framework agreement concerning application management services, including:
1.	Application Development of Nordic RSC internally developed core business applications and broker system for integration as well as new business applications.
The Framework Agreement can be extended 3 times with 12 months by written notification to Supplier within 3 months prior to the termination of the Framework Agreement.
If more than 3 applicants fulfill the minimum requirements, cf. section III, the Contracting Authority will prequalify the 3 applicants who are evaluated as most qualified for the specific tendered assignment. Only these applicants will be invited to submit a tender. The selection of the applicants will be based on the submitted references. That is to which extend the reference(s) are assessed to be similar to the tendered assignment, cf. section II.2.4, in terms of comparability and relevance. As a result, the number of references will not be the determining factor alone, but more importantly to which degree the specific forwarded references are comparable and relevant to the tendered assignment regarding solution and scope, especially concerning:
•	Delivery of daily Application Management Services meaning development, operation and maintenance, including on-call services for application support to an entity similar to the Contracting Authority in the utility sector, where the entity mainly consists of employees with an engineering background.
The Framework Agreement can be extended 3 times with 12 months by written notification to Supplier within 3 months prior to the termination of the Framework Agreement.
The frame of the Agreement can be expanded 2 times with 50 percent of the expected value of the Agreement as stated in the tender notice, in cases where the circumstances for the scope of the Agreement has changed from the time of the conclusion of the tender. This includes the fact that the stated value is used earlier than estimated, unforeseen conditions outside the control of the Contracting Authority, political decisions affecting the Contracting Authority that specifically affect or may affect the Agreement and its scope of application as well as structural and/or organisational changes in the Contracting Authority that increases or may increase the need for procurement under the Agreement.
This is a competitive dialogue. With exception of mandatory parts, the Tender Documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the dialogue phase.The framework agreement’s expected value is 50,000,000.00 DKK and the maximum value of the framework agreement is 100,000,000.00 DKK.
The applicant must confirm the economic ability in the ESPD part IV.B: “Economic and financial standing” with information from the latest annual report regarding the following economic indicators:


Award value: 100000000