Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-08-23
Buyer: NORDunet A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30233100 | 30233180 | 48820000: Servers | 48822000: Computer servers
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NORDUnet operates a number of media services, used for hosting videos from conferences and for general educational usage. These services have recently had an enormous uptake, and the storage need is outgrowing NORDUnet’s current media storage platform. The NORDUnet datacentres are located in the Copenhagen area.
The current media storage platform is homegrown, and instead of expanding that and eventually run into unsolvable scalability issues, NORDUnet has decided to procure a new storage platform, which can be expanded both in space and performance on demand as needed.
Common for the media services are that they provide fine grained access control to the content, so no videos are served directly from storage to the end consumer, but always goes through a webservice.
The video files cover a wide range of sizes, as both length and resolution vary greatly from very short clips to feature length recordings of lectures or talks and from low resolution for portable devices to 4K.
— The contract will include an initial purchase of a redundant storage system and at least 2 peta bytes of usable storage,
— There is option for additional upgrade of the storage capacity in steps of 1 or 2 peta bytes of usable storage. The option can be executed one time per calendar year, with 3 months’ notice anytime within the initial contract period.
1) Bidders may ask clarification questions up to 5 calendar days before the Response submission deadline and must be submitted via the System, cf. Vol 1 — Instructions, section 1.7.1.
If NORDUnet considers any question or request for clarification to be of material significance, both the query and the response will be communicated, in a suitably anonymous form, in a separate clarification document, which will be available to all Bidders in the System;
If the Bidder is from Denmark, the documentation regarding the information given according to section 2.1.1 shall be in form of an Official Certificate (“serviceattest”) from the Danish Business Authority (“Erhvervsstyrelsen”).
If the Bidder isn’t from Denmark the documentation regarding the information given according to section 2.1.1 shall, cf. The Public Procurement Act, section 153(1), be in form of:
1) An extract from the relevant register or a similar document issued by a competent judicial or administrative authority stating that the candidate or Bidder is not subject to the grounds for exclusion stipulated in section 135(1) of the Public Procurement Act;
2) A certificate issued by the competent authority in the country referred to as documentation that the candidate is not subject to the grounds for exclusion stipulated in the cases stated in section 135(3) and section 137(1)(2 or 7) of the Public Procurement Act.
Complaints regarding the tender procedure must be submitted to the Danish authority “Danish Complaints Board for Public Procument” (“Klagenævnet for udbud”) according to The Act on the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement (available on www.retsinfo.dk), paragraph 7. Please observe, that the act is not translated.