Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-12-19
Buyer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30200000 | 30213000 | 30230000 | 48000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Procurement of Framework Agreement regarding delivery of IT Equipment and Software in Support of Anti-Corruption Institutions of Ukraine
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, as part of the EU anti-corruption initiative in Ukraine (EUACI), wishes to enter into a framework agreement that will provide anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine access to IT equipment and software at competitive prices and improve supply and support processes. Delivery will be in Kiev, Ukraine.
The EU anti-corruption initiative in Ukraine (EUACI) has the overall objective to improve the implementation of anti-corruption policy in Ukraine, thereby ultimately contributing to a reduction in corruption in Ukraine. This framework agreement forms part of component 1 of EUACI, which has the purpose of strengthening the operational and policy-making capacities of Ukrainian state institutions dealing with anti-corruption.
The objectives of this framework agreement are overall to procure IT equipment and software at short no-tice and to competitive prices to the benefit of the Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions.
The framework agreement is entered into by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. However, the institutions and bodies named in Appendix 5 in the tender material are entitled to use the framework agreement for the purchase of products and services under in the framework agreement.
The contracting authority wishes to conclude a framework agreement with 2 suppliers. One supplier is the preferred supplier backed up by a secondary supplier that will deliver IT equipment and software under the framework agreement upon request by the above-mentioned anti-corruption agencies based in Kiev, Ukraine. The secondary supplier will only be requested to deliver in order of the circumstances listed in the framework agreement. The supplier shall be able to deliver and install the requested IT equipment and software to the Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions within short notice and shall be responsible to deliver in Kiev, Ukraine without the involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and /or the EUACI.
The IT equipment and software to be procured under this framework agreement covers the following items:
In addition, the framework agreement will also include services at hourly rates, e.g. installation and configu-ration services as described in the framework agreement.
Re: II.1.5) and II.2.6): The current estimated needs for the IT equipment and software under this agreement is approx. 1 000 000 EUR but additional needs may arise over the contract period. Maximum budget is 2 900 000 EUR.
Any specification of time and date in this contract notice incl. any tender material is in Danish time (CET).
Since the publication of the contract notice the contracting authority has been made aware of a number of matters in the tender material which is deemed unsuitable and unfit to fulfill the needs of the contracting authority.
To ensure the competition and the business needs of the contracting authority, the contracting authority has decided to discontinue the tender for the purpose of remediating the identified matters and initiating a new tender procedure. The contracting authority expects to publish a new and revised tender material as soon as practically possible.
The contracting authority would like to encourage all the candidates to carefully read the new and revised tender material when published and to stay informed at the Official Journal of the EU.
The contracting authority hopes that you will be interested in participating in the future tender procedure.
Pursuant to the Danish act on the complaints board for public procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud m.v.) (the Act is available (in Danish) at www.retsinformation.dk ), the following deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints: