Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-05-03
Buyer: NORDUnet A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48190000 | 72212900: Miscellaneous software programming services | 80000000 | 80300000 | 80430000
Estimated value: 50000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2023-05-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement shall enable NORDUnet and the listed Nordic NRENs to purchase Learning Management Solutions that are either based on a; European public cloud or a private cloud, that have the capability to be multi-tenant, and to allow NORDUnet and the listed Nordic NRENs to provide the solutions to their connected and member organisations.
The Learning Management System should be standardised, modular and flexible. It should have an API for integration with other systems and have support for Single Sign-on Systems.
• An HTML based, Intuitive user interface for Students, Teachers and administrative purposes that supports multiple languages.
• The Bidder must monitor the service and provide statistics regarding the service availability and performance. • The Bidder must provide utilisations statistics and detailed billing information, for each contracting NREN. 2.3.3 Interoperability
• The commercial proposal should recognise the potential economies of scales for purchases by Nordic NRENs through the frameworks on behalf of their customers. The framework should have a fair balance of risk.
• All data stored and transferred by the service shall remain the legal property of the customer and the provider shall not assert any rights over any data uploaded to the service.
• All data uploaded by a user to the service shall (subject to customer managed access control restrictions) upon request be made available to that user or a duly designated representative of that user. This provision shall be honoured by the service for a period of six months beyond any termination of contract.
• The provider shall comply with the national data protection and privacy laws in each contracting NREN country and be willing to sign any agreement necessary to comply with such.
An LMS is a complex solution that integrates with all functions and systems within a university. The LMS impacts the way all education and teaching material is developed and delivered, therefore the impact of shifting from one LMS solution to another is very high and carries a lot of additional actual cost and manpower to implement and may take as long as 24-month to complete.
There is no formal standard procedure for filing a complaint with the Complaints Board. The Complaints Board can, however, advise as follows:
Complaints of violations of Titles I-III of the Danish Public Procurement Act (which mainly implements the Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU), the Utilities Directive (Directive 2014/25/EU), the Concession Directive (Directive 2014/23/EU) and the Directive on Security and Defence Procurement (Directive 2009/81/EC) are subject to a fee of DKK 20,000, cf. section 5(4) of Executive Order regarding the Complaints Board.
To pay the fee from abroad, please use the following information: IBAN code: DK41 0216 4069 2095 21. Swift code: DABADKKK
When transferring the fee the complainant must add the following: “Klagenaevnet for Udbud, [name of the company/the complainant]”.
In the complaint the complainant must state that the fee is paid by transfer and include documentation for the transfer with account information.
2.1.The complaint must include information on the identity of the complainant and the contract notice from “Ted – Tenders Electronic Daily”.


Award value: 50000000