Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-10
Buyer: Digipolis
Country: BE
Region: Arr. Antwerpen
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000 | 73100000
Estimated value:  EUR
Submission deadline: 2017-04-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: A000429 — SELECT for Cities Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) to purchase R&D services for a Standardized, open, data-driven, service-oriented user-centric platform Enabling large-scale Co-creation, Testing validation of IoE services for Cities.
The SELECT for Cities Pre-Commercial Procurement is implemented by means of a Framework Agreement covering 3 R&D phases, with specific Specific Contracts for each of Phases. The Framework Agreement sets all the framework conditions for the entire duration of the PCP (covering all the Phases). The Framework Agreement remains binding for the duration of all Phases for which Contractors remain in the PCP. A Contractor must have been awarded a Specific Contract for Phase 1 in order to be considered for Phase 2; a Contractor must have been awarded Specific Contracts for Phases 1 and 2 in order to be considered for Phase 3. Tenderers that are awarded a Framework Agreement will also be awarded a Specific Contract for Phase 1. Phase 1 shall have a maximum duration of 2 months. A call-off will be organised for Phase 2. Only Contractors that successfully completed Phase 1 will be eligible to submit a Tender for Phase 2. Phase 2 shall have a maximum duration of 6 months. A second call-off will be organised for Phase 3. Only Contractors that successfully completed Phase 2 will be eligible to submit a Tender for Phase 3. Phase 3 shall have a maximum duration of 9 months. The Buyers group expects a minimum number of Contractors per phase of 8 (Phase 1) — 4 (Phase 2) — 3 (Phase 3). The exact number of contracts finally awarded will depend on the prices offered and the number of tenders passing the evaluation.
Under this PCP Tenderers will be selected through an open and competitive procurement process. Framework Agreements for the delivery of the R&D services will be awarded to the selected Tenderers (the Contractors). The Select for Cities R&D project phases are the following:
— Phase 1 — Solution design of the SELECT for Cities IoE platform: establishment of a written detailed design report including architecture and technical design of components. In this phase the Buyers Group wants to have a view on how the Tenderers conceptualise the platform. This includes a written detailed design report including architecture and technical design of components, how the platform will implement the different functional criteria, how the platform will implement the innovation, and how the architecture of the platform will meet the different quality criteria. The Tenderer will also present a business plan and business model.
— Phase 2 — Prototype implementation of the SELECT for Cities IoE Platform: build prototypes, including all components, and make them accessible to the Buyers Group. During the prototyping Phase, functionality, interoperability and security tests will be performed in a technical lab environment.
— Phase 3 — Pilot deployment of the SELECT for Cities IoE Platform prototypes: deployment of expanded prototypes in Living Lab scenarios and against a number of use-cases predefined by the Buyers Group. This final phase of the PCP foresees a Living Lab validation of the in Phase 3 selected prototypes. The goal of the test is to validate the Prototypes in a real-life setting and provide the Buyers Group with more insight into the relevance, feasibility and applicability of the solutions in their cities. In order to test the solution in a Living Lab environment, 3 obligatory use cases are foreseen, 1 in each city, to be tested at the same time and in parallel.
More information is to be found in the Request for Tenders on the SELECT for Cities website (http://www.select4cities.eu/tender)
This PCP procurement receives funding under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Horizon 2020 grant agreement Select for Cities No 688196. The EU is however not participating as a contracting authority in this procurement.
The PCP procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them (because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs).