Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-08
Buyer: The Danish Ministry of Taxation represented by The IT and Development Agency of the Danish Ministry of Taxation
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72240000 | 72250000: System and support services | 72260000: Software-related services
Estimated value: 96000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2021-01-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Contract concerns the delivery of Cloud Services and Professional Services, and any subsequent amendments hereof within the scope of the Contract.
The Customer is currently using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as cloud technology including a wide set of cloud-agnostic and AWS-native features for development and operation. Among other the Customer has extensive usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, functions (Lambda in AWS) and IaaS in various areas including containers, computing and serverless computing as well as storage.
Some of the Cloud Services include requirements regarding compatibility with products or services which are currently in use by the Customer, including Kubernetes, operating system Linux, operating system Windows, the system Postgresql multi-AZ, the system Microsoft SQL Standard Edition single-AZ, search engine Elastic search, software Hadoop, and the software RabbitMQ.
The Customer expects to use the Services to support various activities within the obligations of the Ministry of Taxation currently organised in the Implementation Centre for Assessment of Real Estate (ICE), including development and operation of a valuation system as well as associated general and specific functionality. The Cloud Services shall cover both the Customer’s development, testing, training, Pre-production Environment and Production Environments, as well as any other environment that the Customer may choose to establish.
The Cloud Services cover a range of services within the Cloud Service Categories: Function as a Service, Application Development, Containers, Compute and Storage, Database, Data Analytics, Network, Messaging, Monitoring, Tracking and Management, Data Management, Blockchain, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence and Knowledge-based systems, Internet of Things, Device Management, Digital Communication and Business Application Software. The Supplier shall within the Cloud Service Categories provide the Cloud Services on demand and as requested and used by the Customer at any time during the Contract. The Customers quantitative usage of the individual Cloud Services may vary substantially in the duration of the Contract. The Supplier shall provide updates and further developments of the Cloud Services. In case the Supplier within the Cloud Service Categories gives access to new services within Cloud Services provided and/or gives access to new individual services or updates of existing functions and/or services as part of the Cloud Services delivered under the Contract, the Customer shall be entitled to access and use of such new or improved functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services within the Cloud Service Categories.
The Professional Services cover services of Managed Support Services, Support Plans, Consultancy Services, and Transition In. Managed Support Services are a continuous service which cover the operation and maintenance of selected cloud environments and cloud accounts. Support Plans are support services specifically aimed at the Cloud Services. Consultancy Services are services by order, which cover services, that are not covered by Managed Support Services and support the contracting entity in the application of the Cloud Services as intended, including strategic and operational advisory services regarding the configuration, application and operation of the Cloud Services, migrations of data etc. Transition In covers the transition of the Professional Services, which the Supplier shall deliver. The Customer shall perform the transition of Cloud Services from the existing cloud technology to any new cloud technology, which forms part of the winning tender.
The Customer may with a notice of 3 months choose to extend the Contract on unchanged terms for 12 months up to 3 times, i.e. resulting in total potential duration of the Contract of 84 months.
Limitation of the number of candidates who are invited to submit tenders is carried out in accordance with an assessment of which candidates are deemed to have documented the most relevant deliveries, cf. section III.1.3), in relation to i) delivery of Cloud Services supporting development, testing and training, including Pre-production Environments and Production Environments as well as other environments needed and ii) delivery of Managed Support Services, Consultancy Services, and Support Plans related to the delivery of the Cloud Services mentioned in i).
In the assessment of which applicants have documented the most relevant deliveries, the contracting authority will award the applicants points on a scale from 1-5 for i) the delivery of Cloud Services and points on a scale from 1-5 for ii) delivery of Managed Support Services, Consultancy Services, and Support Plans related to the delivery of the Cloud Services mentioned in i), based on the extent to which the references in their entirety substantiate the tenderers relevant experience in delivering the service. The applicant is, based on the process described above, awarded an overall score, which is calculated as the average number of points awarded to these two services.
A market consultation has been conducted prior to this call for tenders. Relevant material from this consultation is accessible at the website of the contracting entity: https://eu.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/279089/0/0?returnUrl=&b=SKATTEMINISTERIET.
The candidate must submit the European Single Procurement Document ("ESPD") with the following information:
The ESPD serves as provisional documentation that the candidate fulfils the minimum suitability requirements in respect of economic and financial capacity.
Before the award decision is made, the tenderer to whom the contracting entity intends to award the contract must submit documentation that the information stated in the ESPD is accurate.
Upon the contracting entity's request, the following documentation of economic and financial capacity must be submitted:


Award value: 96000000