Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-01-18
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: 88000000 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 an Automatic Risk, Profile and Analysis System (ARPA)
The IT and Development Agency of the Danish Ministry of Taxation (UFST) is to procure an Automatic Risk, Profile and Analysis system (ARPA) to replace the current Risk Analysis System (RAS). This project is a part of a collaboration on control and risk management in the EU, to enable the Danish Customs Agency to become compliant with the Union Customs Code (UCC) and enable the Danish Customs Agency to become more data-driven.
The purpose of this tender procedure is to procure an Automatic Risk, Profile and Analysis System (ARPA) to replace the current Risk Analysis System (RAS). The solution will support the risk analyst and the customs employees in the risk analysis processes, by identifying possible risk items for further inspection based on automatic risk analysis of declarations. The functionality of the solution will support the following in the Danish Customs Agency:
The solution must be compliant with UCC, national legal requirements and additional relevant requirements when dealing with ‘EU Restricted’ data.
• enable and support risk models developed in the customs data platform through an efficient integration.
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.
The total value of the contract stated in section V.2.4) is a total evaluation technical price used for the evaluation of economy in the tender procedure and thus not the actual contract value. With reference to section V.2.5), IBM Danmark ApS uses Intrasoft International S.A., IBM United Kingdom Ltd and IBM Netherlands B.V. as subcontractors.
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 regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, cf. § 7(1) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
Other 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:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);
2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;
3) 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;
4) 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has published a notice concerning its decision to uphold the contract, cf. § 185(2) of the Public Procurement Act.


Winner: IBM Danmark ApS
Award value: 88000000
Number of bids: 2