Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-13
Buyer: Berinfor AG
Country: CH
Region: SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2017-08-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Swiss academic libraries are working together to create a new central library platform which will offer services to academic libraries in Switzerland. To achieve this goal, SLSP AG, a public limited company, was founded, which acts as the contracting authority of this tender. The shareholders of SLSP are major Swiss libraries or their parent institutions (higher education institutions) or public authorities.
The tender is for a next generation system, consisting of a library management system (LMS) with integrated link resolver (LR), electronic resource management (ERM) and knowledge base (KB) as well as a discovery system (DS), which are provided as software as a service (SaaS).
The Swiss academic libraries are working together to create a new central library platform which will offer services to academic libraries in Switzerland. To achieve this goal, SLSP AG, a public limited company, was founded, which acts as the contracting authority of this tender. The shareholders of SLSP are major Swiss libraries or their parent institutions (higher education institutions) or public authorities.
The tender is for a next generation system, consisting of a library management system (LMS) with integrated link resolver (LR), electronic resource management (ERM) and knowledge base (KB) as well as a discovery system (DS), which are provided as software as a service (SaaS).
The basic contract lasts from 1.2.2018 — 31.12.2020 and contains the implementation project as well as the migration (the latter must be offered as an option). From 1.1.2021 — 31.12.2040 the yearly licence costs and consulting services regarding the further development of the platform must be offered as options. See tender documents for details.
Terms of business: Acceptance of the General Terms and Conditions of the Swiss Informatikkonferenz (SIK): General terms and conditions for ICT services, edition 2015 http://www.sik.ch/agb.html
Basic procedural principles: The client only awards public commissions for services in Switzerland to tenderers who comply with job security regulations and the conditions of work for employees, and provide equal payment for men and women.
Additional information: The acquisition will be subject to the availability of funding by shareholder libraries and federal subsidies. Successful tenderers retained by the procurement entity are obliged to adapt their prices should market prices drop during the procurement period. The date of the partial and/or full delivery is key to judging a possible price reduction. The procurement authority reserves the right to put out a new invitation for tender if the selected offer is not the most economically advantageous over time. The client reserves the right to use the services awarded in other federal administrative units as well as for partners outside the federal administration. The client reserves the right to accept or refuse totally or partially the services provided as options.
Procedures for appeal: Pursuant to Art. 30 of the Federal Act on Public Procurement, an appeal against this publication may be filed within 20 days since notification in writing in an official language of Switzerland to the Federal Administrative Court, Postfach, 9023 St Gallen. The appeal petition must be submitted in duplicate and must contain the application, the grounds of appeal with details of the evidence and the signature of the appellant or his agent; a copy of the present publication and documents cited as evidence must be attached, provided they are in the appellant's possession.
Deadline / Remarks: Concerning the submission of tenders: address see paragraph 1.2. a) Delivery to Berinfor AG (by the tenderer or by courier): The offer must be delivered no later than the date indicated above, during the reception's opening hours (8:00 — 12:00), in return for an acknowledgement of receipt by Berinfor. b) Delivery by post: The postmark or the bar code label from a Swiss or officially recognised foreign post office is decisive as proof of date of delivery. (A company stamp is not recognised as a postmark.) Offers arriving after the deadline indicated above will not be taken into consideration and will be returned to the sender.
Conditions for obtaining the tendering documentation: The documentation on the public call to tender for the project mentioned can be downloaded from the platform www.simap.ch under: Running procedures, Confederation, Invitations to tender. In order to do so, you first have to register in the above-mentioned project. You will then be able to log in and use the password received by e-mail to download the desired documentation.
Les bibliothèques scientifiques des hautes écoles suisses travaillent ensemble pour créer une nouvelle plateforme centralisée qui offrira des services aux bibliothèques scientifiques en Suisse. Pour atteindre ce but, une société anonyme, SLSP SA, a été créée. Cette société agit en tant que pouvoir adjudicateur de cet appel d'offres. Les actionnaires de SLSP SA sont les principales bibliothèques suisses ou leurs institutions mères (établissements d'enseignement supérieur) ou des autorités publiques.
L'appel d'offres porte sur un système de nouvelle génération, constitué d'un système de gestion de bibliothèque (SGB) avec un résolveur de lien intégré, d'un système de gestion des ressources électroniques (ERM), d'une base de connaissance ainsi que d'un outil de découverte qui sont fournis en mode « Software as a Service » (SaaS).
Les bibliothèques scientifiques des hautes écoles suisses travaillent ensemble pour créer une nouvelle plateforme centralisée qui offrira des services aux bibliothèques scientifiques en Suisse. Pour atteindre ce but, une société anonyme, SLSP SA, a été créée. Cette société agit en tant que pouvoir adjudicateur de cet appel d'offres. Les actionnaires de SLSP SA sont les principales bibliothèques suisses ou leurs institutions mères (établissements d'enseignement supérieur) ou des autorités publiques.