Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-31
Buyer: Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organizations
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34000000 | 35000000: Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
Estimated value: 5400000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2020-02-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract concerns the acquisition of 3 air start units (ASU) which are required to support the Royal Danish Airforce (RDAF) aircrafts, in particular the EH101 (helicopter), in operation and during maintenance. The acquisition includes a user course and user manuals. The ASU shall also be able to be used to support future acquired aircrafts. Due to the operations of the RDAF, the ASU should be able to operate in different climatic conditions as well as environments containing snow, hail, rain and sand with no or minimal modification of the ASU. A standalone gas turbine driven ASU able to run on diesel fuel meeting requirements according to EN 590 (or equivalent) and military aviation jet-fuel (JP-8/NATO F-34) (or equivalent) is required.
The contract is not divided into lots on the grounds that a division of the contract would undermine the economies of scale obtainable by procuring 1 contract.
Reference is made to the procurement documents regarding payment terms. Invoicing must be done in accordance with the applicable Danish legislation on public payments. At present, this is Danish consolidation act. No 798 of June 2007 which requires electronic invoicing. Exact terms are stated in the contract.
No particular legal form is required. If the contract is awarded to a group of suppliers (e.g. a consortium), the participants shall undertake joint and several liabilities and to appoint 1 supplier to represent the group.
The contract must be conducted in consideration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and it contains a labour clause, please see Annex H for further information.
The use of the ESPD is a precondition for participation in the procurement procedure, cf. § 148 of the Public Procurement Act. DALO shall require that the tenderer applies the ESPD as preliminary evidence that the tenderer is not subject to the grounds of exclusion stipulated in §§ 135 and 136 of the said Act.
The tenderer must use the electronic version of the ESPD available at ETHICS’ web portal. The ESPD shall be fulfilled and submitted at ETHICS’ web portal in accordance with the instructions given by ETHICS.
Prior to decision on award of the contract, DALO shall require that the tenderer to whom DALO intends to award the contract presents documentation for the information stated in the ESPD, cf. §§ 151-155 of the said Act.
Regarding Section IV.2.4): note, that the procurement documents is in English. However, it is permissible to submit applications for participation and offers in either Danish or English. Questions submitted during the tender procedure shall be written in English and DALO will answer these questions in English.
DALO shall exclude a tenderer from participation in the procurement procedure if the tenderer is subject to one of the compulsory grounds for exclusion in §§ 135 and 136 unless the tenderer has provided sufficient documentation that the tenderer is reliable in accordance to § 138 of the said Act. Please note that certain voluntary exclusion grounds in Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement have been made compulsory in § 136 of the said Act.
If the same legal entity is a part of or in any other way participates in several offers, e.g. submits his own offer and at the same time participates in a consortium which also submits an offer, the tenderers shall ensure that the same legal entity’s participation does not provide for opportunity for mutual coordination of their offers. DALO reserves the right to request the tenderers to establish and reassure DALO that the same legal entity’s participation does not threaten the transparency and distort competition between the tenderers.
DALO reserves the right – but is not obliged – to use the remedies provided for in section 159(5) of the the Public Procurement Act, if applications or offers do not fulfil the formalities of the tender documents.
Pursuant to the Danish Consolidation Act No 593 of 2.6.2016 on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (available at www.retsinformation.dk), the following time limits for filing a complaint apply:
Complaints regarding public procurements and decisions subject to Chapter II or III of the Public Procurement Act, which does not concern a candidate not being invited to tender, 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. The time limit is calculated from the day after the publication date;


Award value: 5400000