Public procurement notice: Qualification System With Call For Competition
Published: 2023-10-27
Buyer: HOFOR A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 41110000 | 42120000 | 42122000 | 42122130 | 42912300
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The purpose of the qualification system is to establish a list of qualified suppliers for use in the procurement of membrane filtration systems for HOFOR’s water treatment plants and other technical installations, including the development, design and installation of membrane filtration systems.
Inclusion in the qualification system does not mean that the entity included is guaranteed any contracts under HOFOR A/S.
Inclusion in the system means that the entity included may be invited to submit specific tenders in the fields of work covered by the system. The selection among the entities included and invited to submit tenders will be based on a specific assessment on a job-by-job basis; see more in the Tender Conditions.
When selecting applicants HOFOR will attach importance to each applicant’s economic and financial capacity being sufficient for the performance of the agreement. As a minimum, the applicant must meet the following requirements:
•	Average annual revenue in each of the last three available financial years of a minimum of EUR 5 million
If the applicant has not been operating as a legal entity for three years, key figures must be provided for the time during which the applicant has been in business. In such a scenario, the minimum requirements will only apply to the time after the establishment of the applicant’s business.
In order to make it possible to assess whether these requirements are met, the applicant must provide the following information:
•	Key financial ratios for the last three financial years including revenue, solvency ratio and operating margin ratio
•	The applicant’s explanation of the reason for any qualified audit reports in the applicant’s most recent annual financial statement
The documentation submitted may be the applicant’s audited annual financial statements or extracts from the statements covering the preceding three months.
Reference sheets or similar documents that describe and illustrate the references may be attached as separate appendices, but only if there are references to such documents in the ESPD.
•	Documentation for minimum five reference projects involving the supply of membrane systems for the production of drinking water, process water for the food and pharma industries or similar references in the EU, Norway or Switzerland over the last five years. The reference must concern services worth in excess of EUR 0,5 million.
•	Documentation regarding facilities in the applicant’s organisation for production, installation and testing of membrane systems.
•	More than 10 employees for service and maintenance of membrane systems and other equipment in the water supply industry. The supplier must be able to document that the organisation has a response time for service staff of less than 48 hours.
Tenders covered by this qualification system are expected to be based on the HOFOR HAB-ME General Conditions for Supply of Electrical and Mechanical Installations and HOFOR’s supplementary conditions.