Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-05-27
Buyer: Ministry of Taxation
Country: DK
Region: Byen København
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72222300: Information technology services | 72250000: System and support services | 72300000 | 72310000: Data processing services
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Ministry of Taxation has established an Implementation Centre for Property Valuation (ICE), which has been tasked with developing a property valuation system. In connection with this work, the contracting authority needs to make use of Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and related support services. The contracting authority expects to use the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and related support services to run the property valuation in its testing and development environment as well as in its production environment. The property valuation system is currently in development.
The quantitative usage of the individual cloud services and the related support services may vary substantially in the duration of the contract.
This tender is conducted as an open procedure, cf. section 56-57 of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven) No 1564 15.12.2015 (i.e. the Danish implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council). This tender concerns the acquisition of Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and Faas) and related support services.
The contracting authority expects to use the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and the related support services to run the property valuation system in its testing and development environment as well as in its production environment. The property valuation system is currently in development.
The property valuation system is expected to be put into production in early 2018, however, it should be taken into consideration, that this might be subject to change, e.g. due to political decisions in the Danish Parliament. The organisational set-up of the Ministry of Taxation will, gradually change as from early 2017. Some existing agencies will continue unchanged and some will in whole or in part be merged into other existing agencies or agencies to be established. Therefore, the contracting authority needs to ensure a great level of flexibility concerning the use of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and the related support services as well as the ability to assign the rights and obligations in whole or in part under the contract.
The quantitative usage of the individual services of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and the related support services may vary substantially in the duration of the contract. The contracting authority shall have the right to switch between various versions of the services and the related support services, such as geographical location of data centres and support tiers.
The tenderer shall provide updates and further developments of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS) and related support services.
In case the Supplier markets new functions and/or new individual services or updates of existing functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services and/or related support services delivered under the contract, the contracting authority shall be entitled to purchase and use such new or improved functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services and/or support services in accordance with the contract.
The contracting authority has chosen not to subdivide the contract into lots, cf. Instructions to Tenderers.
The contract involves the processing of personal data. The contract therefore contains far-reaching requirements concerning data protection and information security. The tenderer therefore must sign a data processing agreement. All data shall at all times remain in the EU and/or EEA.
The tenderer must submit as part of the tender an ESPD as preliminary documentation of the circumstances set out in section 148(1)(i-iii) of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven). For groups of economic operators (e.g. a consortium), a separate ESPD must be submitted for each participating economic operator. If the tenderer relies on the capacity of other entities, an ESPD must be submitted for each of the entities on which the tenderer relies. Reference is made to the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority's ESPD guide.
Before the decision to award the contract is made, the tenderer to whom the contracting authority intends to award the contract must provide documentation of the information submitted in the ESPD pursuant to sections 151-152, cf. section 153 of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
The tenderer shall at the request of the contracting authority provide the following documentation as evidence for the absence of grounds for exclusion, cf. section 135 (1) or (3) and section 137 (1) (2 or 7):
— An extract from the relevant register or a similar document issued by a competent judicial or administrative authority stating that the tenderer is not subject to the grounds for exclusions stipulated in section 135 (1);