Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2024-11-21
Buyer: Energinet Systemansvar A/S
Country: DK
Region: DK032
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 42961200 | 65310000: Electricity distribution | 72253200: Computer systems support services

Technical requirements: The procurement regards a service and maintenance contract for a SCADA Platform. The platform is used by Energinet to monitor and control the Danish power grid. The monitoring system itself is delivered through a tendered contract and this voluntary ex ante transparency solely regards the maintenance and support agreement for the system. The support and maintenance services are, however, essential for Energinet, as the monitoring system is regarded as critical infrastructure for the supply of electricity in Denmark.  Energinet’s SCADA system in the electricity transmission network is highly specialized and very extensive system. The system is a proprietary system, supplied by the supplier that owns the source code for the SCADA system. 

The monitoring system itself is delivered through a tendered contract and this voluntary ex ante transparency solely regards the maintenance and support agreement for the system.

The SCADA system is highly specialized and very extensive and therefore cannot be replaced without a multi-year process for this, thus it is not currently possible to simply enter into an agreement for a new system with a different supplier. It is expected that the system will be put out to tender and potentially changed within the next few years. This service agreement only will be current until the potential shift from the existing system. Hence, the last two years of the agreement are solely options to be called in case of a delayed transition phase.
Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
Other complaints must 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 (with effect from the day following the publica-tion date);
2. 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tender-ers 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 a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;
3. 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
4. 30 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union which clarifies the reasons for the contract being awarded without prior publication of a contract notice (when the procedure described in section 4 of the Act on the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement (klagenævnsloven) has been followed).

Energinet shall follow the procedure in Section 4 of the Act on the Board of Appeal (Consolidated Act No 593 of 2.6.2016 on the Public Procurement Board of Appeal, available at: www.retsinformation.dk). Thus, the intended contract will not be concluded before the expiry of 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date of publication of this notice, cf. Section 4 (1) (2) of the Act on the Board of Appeal.


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