Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-05-19
Buyer: Danmarks Radio
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72310000: Data processing services | 72320000
Estimated value: 63765073.19 DKK
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: After receipt of initial tenders, the contracting entity will conduct individual negotiation meetings with all tenderers who have submitted an initial tender within the deadline stated. The negotiations will be conducted in accordance with the principle of equal treatment, and all tenderers will be given the same amount of time for negotiations with the contracting entity. Successive stages are not used in order to limit the number of tenders to be negotiated. After the negotiations, the contracting entity may choose to issue revised tender documents for further initial or final tenders. The tenderers will be informed thereof at the same time with an invitation to submit an ini-tial or final tender. 
The contracting entity reserves the right to award the agreement on the basis of the first initial tender or any subsequent initial tenders. 
The contracting entity will not pay a participation fee to the tenderers who participate in the entire tender procedure and who submit a final, compliant tender. 
For further information on the process of the negotiations, reference is made to the tender specifications.
DR’s vision is to purchase a platform for streaming and related services. The Platform should support and enhance the existing DRTV applications for streaming but also upholds the unwavering DR’s public service commitment. DR aims to significantly bolster our competitive stance in the rapidly expanding landscape of TV and streaming services. DR seeks a Platform that not only fosters exceptional user experiences, but also offers a well proven and solid framework for personalization and content management. DR’s platform of choice must facilitate effortless configuration of design, navigation, and content based on audience behaviour as well as empowering DR’s editorial teams to tailor an exceptional DRTV-experience, to all types of End-Users, from children, youngsters, teens, adults to seniors. DR’s success metrics revolve around effectively attracting and retaining the users. To achieve this, the Platform must support best of breed in user engagement and focus on minimizing churn.
It is DR’s vision to achieve greater flexibility, market adaptability, get enhanced decision-making capabilities, and heightened competitiveness. DR aims to strike for the perfect and harmonious balance between standardization and bespoke development.
The goal is to have a Platform that provides a framework to create a personalized streaming product making the time worth spend on DRTV. This should be supported by the integration to external recommendation engines as well as orchestrating and manually curation of content. DR aims to utilize the Platform to empower the editorial teams, with tools to customize a tailored digital experience. DR wants a flexible Platform which makes it easy to configure design, navigation, layout and ingest content behaviour to increase engagement and decrease churn, within the Platform. 
The Platform needs to integrate easily via well-documented APIs with other systems as it will be part of our existing tech- and eco-environment stack. The Platform serves as a central hub for planning, ingesting, managing, and showcasing/distributing videos and content to the End-user. Thus, the Platform serves as a control center for the Platform-workflow, and it is DR's ambition to create a well-founded Platform to ensure better integration, flexibility, and adaptability of DR’s apps.The main services (A-C) under the Contract are:A. Delivery of a Platform: 
A complete delivery of the Platform (as described above), including the necessary functionality, API and integrations 
B. Implementation of the Platform; a complete implementation of the Platform with the underlying implementation activities, including complying with the time schedule, establishment of the cooperation and test of the Platform
C. Continuing services: Delivery of Operation, Maintenance and Support of the Platform while complying with service levels and processes.
Furthermore, the Supplier shall – if ordered by DR – deliver Ordered Services under the Contract, including Adaptions and Consultancy Services.
Is evaluated on the basis of the total technical evaluation price, see Appendix 12 – Prices, payment schedule and other prices.
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud m.v.) (the Act is available (in Danish) at www.retsinformation.dk), the following deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints:
Complaints for not having been selected must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Pro-curement before the expiry of 20 calendar days, see section 7(1) of the Act, from the day after submission of notification to the candidates concerned of the identity of the successful tenderer where the notification is ac-companied by an explanation of the grounds for the decision in accordance with section 2(1), para (1) of the Act and section 171(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
In other situations, complaints of award procedures, see section 7(2) of the Act, must be lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic pur-chasing system has been entered into where the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting entity has submitted notification of its deci-sion, see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.Not later than at the time of lodging a complaint with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting entity in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and whether the appeal was lodged during the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1) of the Act.The e-mail address of the Complaints Board for Public Procurement is set out in this notice.
The Complaints Board’s own complaints procedure is available at https://naevneneshus.dk/start-din-klage/klagenaevnet-for-udbud/vejledning/


Winner: Deltatre Limited
Award value: 63765073.19
Number of bids: 3