Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-20
Buyer: Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35000000: Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment | 35112000: Rescue and emergency equipment
Estimated value: 30000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2020-11-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO) tender a framework agreement for the procurement of hydraulic and battery powered rescue tools for rescue missions and related accessories and services. The agreement shall cover the requirements of the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), the Danish Defence and the municipal fire departments for hydraulic cutting and spreading tools, both as a single function tools and as combination tools (combi tools), as well as rams. Requirements for cutters spreaders, combi tools and rams are derived from EN 13204 or equivalent. The tender is divided in to 2 lots. Lot 1 for hydraulic rescue tools and Lot 2 for battery powered rescue tools. In addition, a range of municipal fire and rescue services are entitled to use the agreement for the purchase of products included in the deliverables on the terms and conditions of the agreement. Reference is made to Appendix I, in which these entities are listed.
In addition, a range of municipal fire and rescue services are entitled to use the agreement for the purchase of products included in the deliverables on the terms and conditions of the agreement. Reference is made to Appendix I, in which these entities are listed.
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 one supplier to represent the group. The contract/framework agreement must be conducted in consideration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and it  contains a labour clause, please see Appendix B for further information.
Regarding section II.1.5): The estimated value of the framework agreement is kr. 20-30 mio. The reason for the interval stated is the uncertainty regarding the actual value of the framework agreement. Hence, the lower limit of the interval constitutes DALO’s most qualified estimate of the actual value of the framework agreement at the present moment, while the upper limit of the interval constitutes the expected maximum value of the framework agreement in its duration.
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 apply 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 and, if relevant, the participants in the group of entities or/and entities on which the candidate
Relies on, 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. The tenderer may submit an ESPD for each lot.
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. 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 of the said Act 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.
Pursuant to the Danish Consolidation Act No 593 of 2 June 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
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.
2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has notified the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes an account of the reasons for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the tenderers involved, cf. § 2(2) or § 171(4) of the Public Procurement Act, provided that the notification included an account of the reasons for the decision.
4) 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has published a notice concerning his decision to uphold the contract, cf. § 185(2) of the Public Procurement Act.
The complainant must inform the contracting authority of the complaint in writing at the latest simultaneously with the lodge of the complaint to The Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the stand-still period, cf. § 6(4) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement.


Award value: 30000000