Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-02-29
Region: DKZZZ
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 79000000 | 79200000 | 79211100 | 79221000 | 79400000
Estimated value: 83000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-03-11
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Lot 1 - Interim Financial Support services as extra additional resource (consultants) needed to support a range of standardized and global financial accounting and reporting processes.
Lot 2 - Corporate Tax, Tax compliance, Indirect Tax, Transfer Pricing, Tax Controversy, M&A Tax advisory, Tax advisory on rules and standards.
Lot 3 - Models for financial performance management, Advisory on processes to configuration of financial budgets, Cost allocation models, ESG performance models.
Lot 4 - Global coordination for assignment population, Tax compliance, reconciliation, return for expats, Payroll information to assigned population.
Lot 5 - Risk management models for energy price forecast, financial funding, supply forecast and general financial risk management.
Lot 6 - Advisory and coordination of activities when establishing new legal entities in new countries, Outsourced payroll and accounting services in new countries.
It is a minimum requirement that the Applicant has the following financial figures based on signed and approved annual report(s): 1) Positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) for the last two financial annual statements. 2) Annual turnover (revenue) exceeding € 10.000.000 excl. VAT for the last two financial annual statements.
For the selection criteria the Applicant is encouraged to provide the following figures based on the latest two signed and approved annual reports: 1) Turnover (revenue), 2) Earnings before tax (EBT), 3) Current assets, 4) Total assets, 5) Total shareholder’s equity, 6) Current liabilities, 7) Intangible assets, 8) Inventories, 9) Trade receivables, 10) Cash and cash equivalents, 11) Trade payables, and 12) Total interest-bearing debt.
The assessment will be based upon the information submitted and will be an assessment of the following (in prioritized order): 1) Capital structure, 2) Liquidity, 3) the following three criteria with the same weight a) Profitability (newest annual report), b) current ration (oldest annual report), and c) profitability (oldest annual report). 
The selection criterium is elaborated in section 3.3.3 of the prequalification notice.
The Applicant is encouraged to submit a maximum of four references, and each reference should not be older than 3 years based on the end date. The Applicant is encouraged to describe the following for each reference: 1) Title of reference, 2) Description of customer, 3) start and end date, 4) scope of delivery. 
The assessment will be based on the submitted information, and will be an overall assessment of similarity to the services included in this lot, including 1) Applicant has provided interim financial services for customers with an international footprint, 2) Applicant has provided Interim financial services to customers which has centralized 
shared service centers in different regions (e.g. APAC, Americas, Europe), 3) Applicant has provided a broad variety of interim financial services, and 4) The interim financial services have been provided by consultants with various seniorities.
Lot 1 is elaborated in section 2.2.3.1 in the prequalification notice. The selection criterium is elaborated in section 3.3.4.3 of the prequalification notice.
Reference is made to section 6 in the Prequalification notice
The most economically advantageous tender shall be identified on the basis of the best price-quality ratio as further described in the tender material