Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-10-20
Buyer: Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72222300: Information technology services | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72240000
Estimated value: 500000000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Tender for the Delivery, Operation, Maintenance and Support of a Customs Control and Reporting Systemincluding a Gateway (ICS2 Gateway)
The purpose of the tender is to procure a control and reporting system that amongst others will replace the current Risk Information System (‘RIS’) and enable the Danish Customs Agency to become compliant with the Union Customs Code (hereafter ‘UCC’) according to the deadlines in the European Commission’s Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP).
The control and reporting system will support the customs employees in selecting shipments for control, performing customs controls and documenting the selection and control processes in compliance with UCC and national legal requirements. To ensure compliance with UCC, the customer will through this tender procure the control and reporting system including a gateway to handle communication with the EU’s Import Control System (hereafter ‘ICS2 Gateway’), and implement the functionality and integrations to support the relevant control and risk reporting processes.
The purpose of this tender procedure is to procure a control and reporting system that amongst others will replace the current Risk Information System (‘RIS’) and enable the Danish Customs Agency to become compliant with the Union Customs Code (hereafter ‘UCC’) expectedly according to the deadlines in the European Commission’s Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP).
The control and reporting system will support the customs employees in selecting shipments for control, performing customs controls and documenting the selection and control processes in compliance with UCC and national legal requirements. The functionality of the control and reporting system will support the following value streams in the Danish Customs Agency:
Additionally, the requirements to the above mentioned business processes will be further structured according to the various Customs areas:
To ensure compliance with UCC, the customer will through this tender procure the control and reporting system including a gateway to handle communication with the EU’s Import Control System (hereafter ‘ICS2 Gateway’), and implement the functionality and integrations to support the relevant control and risk reporting processes. The entire Solution consisting of both the control and reporting system and the ICS2 Gateway is expected to be implemented according to the deadlines in the MASP.
The customer has conducted market dialogues demonstrating that there are standard systems that will be suitable to replace the current RIS System. In order to ensure a fast implementation process and compliance with the MASP deadlines, the Customer prefers a high degree of UCC compliant control and reporting functionality present in the standard system.
The customer expects the supplier to have in-depth knowledge in the customs domain and especially of the UCC and MASP. The customer will use an agile approach for implementation with close collaboration and co-location at the customer location.
1) Licenses to Control and Reporting Functionality and ICS2 Gateway functionality supporting the Control and Reporting System and the ICS2 Gateway;
2) Parameterization/configuration/development of the control and reporting system and the ICS2 Gateway;
3) Development of a number of integrations to the customers' other customs systems, including the Declaration Management System ‘DMS’ tendered for in a separate tender process published at https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:462423-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML as well as integrations to the costumers existing Risk Assessment System (hereafter ‘RAS’) as well as a number of integrations to EU customs systems to be handled by the ICS2 Gateway;
4) Implementation of the functionality including training. The implementation project is subject to comprehensive interdependencies to the DMS tender procedure and other implementation projects forming parts of the customers programme plan as further described in the tender material. The supplier must expect to carry out this project working in a multi-supplier setup alongside other system integrators;
The contract will have no fixed expiration day, but will run until terminated. The estimated value in Section II.2.6) is based on a 10 year period. The customer has decided not to divide the tender into lots since the tender concerns a critical it-system which is to be used across the Danish customs sector.


Winner: European Dynamics Luxembourg SA
Award value: 500000000
Number of bids: 2