Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-10-28
Buyer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Danida Business Finance
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 75211200 | 79410000 | 79419000
Estimated value: 30000000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Danida Business Finance (DBF) provides subsidized loans to infrastructure projects in developing countries — preferably above 100 000 000 DKK. The contract is a Framework Agreement according to which the winning company / consortium of companies will be invited to submit proposals for individual assignments and their particular terms of reference in relation to Technical Assistance to Danida Business Finance projects.
Engineering services combined with financial, socio-economic, and institutional expertise for the below range of services, having sustainability as a cross-cutting issue:
— Assistance in relation to drafting of documents to be presented to competent approving authorities in Denmark.
— Engineering and contract specialist assistance to Buyer/End User for Design, Elaboration of Pre-Qualification and Tender Documents, Evaluation Report, contract negotiations with winning contractor and setting up of contract with Buyer.
— Close collaboration with DBF during the phase of establishment of the Loan Agreement between a Danish bank and the Borrower and other related documents.
— Engineer's monitoring of implementation and verification of the project during its whole implementation period, verification at Taking-Over and at End of Defects' Liability Period. Specific Danida Business Finance conditions (being part of the Loan Agreement) must also be monitored.
Some of the assignments are short-term assignments; others cover several years, but are not full-time.
For more information regarding the services, reference is made to ‘Appendix 1 — Scope of Services’ to the Framework Agreement.
Re: II.1.5 and section V.6 the total value of the contract is the estimated total maximum value for the entire duration of the Framework Agreement.
The following deadlines apply to the lodging of appeals pursuant to the Danish Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud) (the Act is available at www.retsinformation.dk): Appeals for not having been prequalified must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for Udbud) within 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting authority has notified the applicants concerned which applicants have been prequalified provided that the notification has included a short explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
In other situations, appeals regarding tender procedures must be lodged with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting authority has concluded the contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting authority has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into where the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting authority entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting authority notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting authority has submitted notification of its decision, see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.


Winner: COWI A/S
Award value: 30000000
Number of bids: 4