Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-04-21
Buyer: Energinet Elsystemansvar A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72110000 | 72120000 | 72130000
Estimated value: 250000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2021-05-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Nordic RSC (Regional Security Coordinator) is a joint office owned by Energinet, Fingrid, Svenska Kraftnät and Statnett with the purpose of delivering operational coordination in the Nordic electricity system. Energinet is empowered by the TSOs to conduct the tendering process. The role of the Nordic RSC within the agreed different services is to provide coordination services for the secure operation of the European transmission system, to build consistent regional data, to perform analyses, making recommendations and otherwise support harmonising of operational procedures and standards, assisting the parties to maintain security of supply. The Nordic RSC needs to deliver the following five essential coordination functions:
Currently, Energinet is appointed as the hosting TSO for the Nordic RSC, thus Energinet is also responsible for providing server capacity and other IT tools for the Nordic RSC’s current business functions and future functions as defined by the ENTSO-E rules. In this context, Energinet requires an IT infrastructure framework agreement covering IT operations for primarily involved IT systems, but also other systems used by Nordic RSC e.g. administrative IT systems. Selected IT systems ranging from systems which are business critical, systems containing security sensitive data to systems which are neither business critical nor handle any security sensitive data.
The overall target of this procurement is to ensure high quality and reliability in the daily operation of the common Nordic RSC/TSO business process and to provide common basis for the business and support for the existing business processes and any additional business processes which may be defined by the TSOs or Nordic RSC.
Energinet would like to conclude a framework agreement with a partner that can provide IT operations, including:
2) Architecture such as workplace architecture, infrastructure architecture and enterprise/applications architecture;
7) Workplace services such as collaboration, device management, remote connectivity, client computing, workplace applications, content filtering service and telephony;
8) Busines application services such as technical application management, application operations, database management, application and database basics, middleware management, platform services and OS;
9) Infrastructure services such as housing, hosting, network, virtual/physical compute, storage, load balancing, firewall and domain services;
Furthermore, the framework agreement will include support and recurring consultancy services — see also remaining description in the last part of VI.3) (due to limited space in this section).
The customer has an option on prolonging the framework agreement for a period up to an aggregate of 36 months from the end date of the framework agreement at the customer’s sole discretion. For avoidance of doubt the customer can choose a prolongation of less than 36 months and may (again) choose prolongation within the aggregate of the remaining 36 months from the expiration of the 5-year term.
If more than 5 applicants fulfill the minimum requirements, cf. section III, the contracting authority will pre-qualify the 5 applicants who are evaluated as most qualified for the specific tendered assignment. Only these applicants will be invited to submit a tender. The selection of the applicants will be based on the submitted references and secondly a description of how the applicant actively work with being as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible.
Regarding the references the selection is subject to the extent of which the reference(s) are assessed to be similar to the tendered assignment, cf. section II.2.4), in terms of comparability and relevance. As a result, the number of references will not be the determining factor alone, but more importantly to which extent the specific forwarded references are comparable and relevant to the tendered assignment regarding solution and scope, especially concerning the following non-prioritised criteria:
2) The reference(s) demonstrate experience with safely and smoothly transition-out from suppliers who operate business critical data and systems containing security sensitive data, and transition-in to the applicant,
3) The reference(s) demonstrate ability to perform efficient and smooth cooperation between customers and the tenderer;


Award value: 250000000