Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-01-25
Buyer: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 60424120
Estimated value: 30000000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Every year GEUS carries out fieldwork during spring and summer making use of ad-hoc and full charter helicopter services. GEUS mainly uses smaller single-engine helicopters and work often takes place in unmapped areas. On occasion GEUS organizes geological field trips for professionals and VIP visitors. GEUS expects a continued strong commitment in Greenland for the years to come, a commitment that implies the use of helicopter services in all parts of Greenland. Over a period of 4 years (2016-2019) the need of helicopter assistance for GEUS operations has varied from 181 to 247 5 hours with an average of 219 hours per year as both full charter and ad-hoc operations. GEUS expects similar fieldwork activities for the years to come. To ensure the supply of helicopter services for such fieldwork activities GEUS wishes to enter a framework agreement with one or more experienced service providers that can provide GEUS with helicopter services in Greenland for a 4-year period.
— numerous take-offs and landings from unprepared sites in the field, most often in poorly mapped areas
— mobilization and move(s) of drilling rig and equipment associated with a drilling camp, including extensive long-line sling operations
— geological reconnaissance, geological sampling, grid sampling, photography, etc. including numerous brief ground-stops for sample collection, etcetera,
— stereo-photography or photogrammetric flying (should be undertaken with the sliding door open, conditions permitting), or remote sensing acquisition, possibly with hyperspectral camera mounted outside of helicopter (e.g. on a ‘filming-pole’) with option to draw power from helicopter,
In accordance with the Danish Act on Public Procurement (Act No 1564 of 15 December 2015 — available at www.retsinformation.dk) § 148, the customer must demand that the tenderer completes the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) as preliminary evidence in replacement of certificates issued by public authorities or third parties confirming that the tenderer fulfils the requirements listed in § 148(1) of the said Act.
The ESPD is available on EU-Supply at the URL stated in Section I.3) of this contract notice together with the rest of the tender documents. The ESPD should be completed via EU-supply.
The tenderer shall complete the ESPD, Part II A, B and C, Part III A, B and C, Part IV B and C and Part V.
According to § 144 of the said Act, a tenderer may rely on the economic, financial and/or technical capacity of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links between the entities. Where an economic operator wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall as part of the tender prove to the customer that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example by producing a commitment by those entities to that effect.
A tenderer who relies on the capacity of other entities shall ensure that the customer receives the tenderer’s own ESPD together with a separate ESPD with the relevant information for each of the entities that the tenderer relies upon. Finally when groups of entities, including temporary joint ventures, participates in the tender procedure together, each of the participating entities must complete a separate ESPD with the information required in Part II-IV.
Prior to a decision on the award of the contract, documentation for the information stated in the ESPD must be produced, cf. §§ 151-155 of the said Act. At any stage of the tender procedure, the customer further reserves the right to request a tenderer to submit documentation, if this is required to ensure that the procedure is conducted correctly.
The customer shall exclude a Tenderer from participation in the tender procedure if the tenderer is subject to one of the mandatory and voluntary exclusion grounds in §§ 135, 136 and 137, subsection 1, number (1), (2) and (5) of the said Act. The tenderer shall submit information in this respect in the ESPD. Special attention is drawn to the fact that certain voluntary exclusion grounds have been made mandatory in § 136 of the said Act.
Pursuant to Section 3 of the Danish Consolidation Act No 593 of 2 June 2016 on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (available at www.retsinformation.dk), the following time limits for filing a complaint apply:
• Complaints must in accordance with § 7(2) of the Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement be filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, cf. § 2(2) or § 171(4) of the Public Procurement Act, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;
• The complainant must inform the contracting authority of the complaint in writing at the latest simultaneously with the lodge of the complaint to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the standstill period, cf. § 6(4) of the Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement. If the complaint has not been lodged in the standstill period, the complainant must also state whether it is requested that the appeal is granted delaying effect, cf. § 12(1) of the said Act;


Winner: Air Greenland A/S
Award value: 30000000
Number of bids: 3