Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-01-13
Buyer: The Ministry of Taxation
Country: DK
Region: Byen København
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48600000 | 48610000: Database systems | 48611000: Database software package | 48612000: Database-management system
Estimated value: 5715898.4 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Ministry of Taxation has established an Implementation Center for Property Valuation (ICE) which has been tasked with developing a property valuation system. In connection with this work, ICE needs to undertake continuous data management. For this purpose, The Ministry of Taxation intends to acquire the right of use (e.g. via a contract covering one or more licences) for database software for data management in accordance with the information provided in this Contract Notice.
The database software shall be compatible with cloud infrastructure (IaaS), maybe with local physical disks instead of SAN like disks. Cloud infrastructure requires database software which is highly scalable and which can be used in connection with the distribution of capacity demand across clusters of machines and multiple datacenters located in geographically dispersed locations.
This tender is conducted as an open procedure, cf. sections 56-57 of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven) no. 1564 15.12.2015 (i.e. the Danish implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU). The time limit for receipt of tenders has been reduced in accordance with section 57 (3) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
General requirements for the database software will include horizontal scalability, high availability through a masterless design, easy configuration, and compatibility with automatic deployment in the cloud. The estimated number of nodes is between 6 and 16 nodes (server instances). The database software shall be able to scale horizontally without special hardware or major reconfiguration to at least 50 nodes.
The contract will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender which offers the best price-quality ratio in accordance with the specifications of the tender documents. Should the most economically advantageous tender include a licence price per node above 80 000 DKK, the contracting authority reserves the right to cancel the tender in accordance with the procurement rules.
The total value of the contract as specified in section II.1.7) and section V.2.4) reflects the technical evaluation price.
This tender procedure was carried out through the use of an electronic tender system and tenders was submitted electronically via the electronic tender system.
Communication in connection with the tender procedure was conducted via the electronic tender system.
Any questions regarding the tender material during the preparation of the tender were submitted via the electronic tender system. Any questions and answers during the preparation of the tender were made available via the electronic tender system.
In the event of problems with the electronic tender system, please contact Technical Support at either mail dksupport@eu-supply.com or by telephone on (+45) 70 20 80 14.
In accordance with Act no 593 02/06/2016 (‘Lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud’, which can be downloaded from www.retsinformation.dk), the deadlines for submitting a complaint are the following:
Complaints regarding a candidate not being selected must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, cf. section 171 or section 2 (1) no. 1 of the Danish Public Procurement Act if the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date).
2) 30 calendar days from the day following the day on which the contracting authority has informed the tenderer that the contracting authority has entered into a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system if the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting authority has signed a framework agreement from the day following the day that the contracting authority has notified the tenderers, cf. section 2 (2) or section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.


Winner: DataStax, Inc.
Award value: 5715898.4
Number of bids: 1