Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-06-02
Buyer: NORDUnet
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30200000 | 30210000 | 30233100 | 30234000
Estimated value: 1000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-07-04
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Is the economic operator in in any analogous situation like bankruptcy arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Is the economic operator bankrupt? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for corruption, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 3 of the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union, OJ C 195, 25.6.1997, p. 1, and in Article 2(1) of Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (OJ L 192, 31.7.2003, p. 54). This exclusion ground also includes corruption as defined in the national law of the contracting authority (contracting entity) or the economic operator.
Is the economic operator in arrangement with creditors? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for participation in a criminal organisation, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA of 24 October 2008 on the fight against organised crime (OJ L 300, 11.11.2008, p. 42).

Eligibility requirements: The Bidder must submit three (3) references demonstrating the delivery of comparable solutions.
"Delivery of comparable solutions" are defined as:
• The delivery and implementation of redundant storage solutions utilising multi-tier disk architectures and multi-site redundancy
• A solution is considered delivered and implemented once it has been formally accepted by the client.
Each reference must relate to a contract initiated or completed within the past three (3) years counted from the Tender submission deadline.
References that fall outside this time frame will be disregarded and deemed non-compliant.
To enable verification of compliance with the above criteria, the following information must be provided for each reference:
• A brief description of the delivery, with emphasis on the elements qualifying it as a comparable solution (as defined above)
• The official name of the client organization.
• Preferably a contact person at the client, including a direct phone number and email address.
• Start date: commencement of delivery.
• End date: Completion of delivery (if completed).
NORDUnet reserves the right to contact the listed references for the purpose of verifying the information provided and assessing the relevance of the referenced deliveries.
The scope of this tender is to secure a new storage system for the NORDUnet I/O intensive Media Management services. The storage system is also used as general-purpose storage, but the performance driver is the Media Services. The current storage system is based on IBM ESS, installed in two data centres in the Copenhagen area. Due to performance we are looking for a system based on disc or flash storage media.
Common for the media services are that they provide fine grained access control to the content, so no videos are served directly from storage to the end consumer.
The media files cover a wide range of sizes, as both length and resolution vary greatly from very short clips to feature length recordings of lectures. 
The new system must ensure high availability, scalability, and performance to meet the demanding needs of NORDUnet's Media Management services. Additionally, it must be compliant with the latest security standards to safeguard the sensitive research and educational content stored within.
The procurement will be conducted through an open procedure.
Potential bidders are expected to demonstrate their capability to deliver a robust and future-proof system, highlighting their previous experience in providing similar solutions, their technical expertise, and their commitment to ongoing support and maintenance.
Options
• The contract will include an initial purchase of a redundant storage system and at least 2 Peta bytes of usable storage per site, including 5 years support.
• There is an option for additional upgrades of the storage capacity in steps of 1 Peta byte of usable storage. The option can be executed one time per calendar year, with 3 months’ notice anytime within the initial contract period.

Winner: Mercell Holding ASA