Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-09-20
Buyer: Fluxys Belgium n.v.
Country: BE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72210000: Software programming services
Submission deadline: 2021-10-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Delivery of licences, and services for implementation and maintenance of CATE 2.0 Application for Fluxys BE, Fluxys LNG and other possible affiliates of the Fluxys’ Group
Delivery of licences, and services for implementation and maintenance of CATE 2.0 Application for Fluxys BE, Fluxys LNG and other possible affiliates of the Fluxys’ Group. CATE means Content Authoring Tool for Engineering. This is the version 2.0 because Fluxys has already now a Content Authoring Tool for Engineering, which has to be replaced by a new one.
Delivery of licences, and services for implementation and maintenance of CATE 2.0 Application for Fluxys BE, Fluxys LNG and other possible affiliates of the Fluxys’ Group. CATE 2.0 is the application (= also named the “Project” in the documents) to be implemented to Fluxys. CATE means Content Authoring Tool for Engineering. This is the version 2.0 because Fluxys has already now a Content Authoring Tool for Engineering CATE 1.0, which has to be replaced by the new one CATE 2.0.
1) Proof of the candidate's economic and financial standing may be furnished by one or more of the following references:
- the presentation of financial statements or extracts from the financial statements of the company (information from parent company or the group of companies is not accepted), where publication of financial statements is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
- a statement of the economic operator's overall turnover of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading.
- the audited annual accounts of the last three fiscal years (audited annual accounts from the parent company or the Group of companies is not accepted).
1) The candidate must have an average yearly turnover of at least 3,9 M EUR during the last 3 years. This criterion applies to the candidate as a whole, i.e. through the combined capacity of all members of the group in case of a group of economic operators.
a) Current ratio (i.e. current assets divided by current liabilities) of the last year must be above 1.0;
b) Solvency ratio (i.e. equity divided by total assets) of the last year must be above 20%.These criteria apply to each member of the group in case of a group of economic operators.
The candidate must have the necessary technical and professional ability to perform the contract. Proof of the candidate's ability must be furnished by the following means (in case of a joint tender, the combined capacity of all members is taken into account):
Criterion 1 - Supplier with practical experience: a list of Reference projects is requested as follows:
a) Minimum 3 projects of Content Authoring Tool for Engineering (CATE) during the last 3 years since the date of publication of this public procurement file, and within Europe;
b) Minimum 1 project with TSO or DSO or public infrastructure ideally with linear assets (this can be one of the 3 projects above) during the last 3 years since the date of publication of this public procurement file, and within Europe;
c) Duration of Service contract with customers has to be min. 3 years for each project abovementioned.