Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-01-18
Buyer: Copenhagen Business School — Handelshøjskolen
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 4200000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Tender concerns delivery, integration, operation, maintenance and support of a Learning Management System
This tender concerns the procurement of a SaaS agreement for the delivery, integration, operation, maintenance, and support of a Learning Management System for Copenhagen Business School.
This tender concerns the procurement of a SaaS agreement for the delivery, integration, operation, maintenance, and support of a Learning Management System (hereinafter: LMS) for Copenhagen Business School (hereinafter: CBS).
A key argument for acquiring a new LMS is to strengthen the support for CBS' blended learning strategy. Therefore, the new LMS must be offered as a comprehensive and total learning platform that can facilitate teaching and learning processes, and enable the beneficial use of digital elements on all programs for both CBS teachers and students. A new LMS must include a learning functionality core, and furthermore act as a meeting point for third-party and/or proprietary learning applications to ease the integration of new digital tools into CBS’ education landscape. CBS expects that a future LMS must be thoroughly tested to e-learning environments, with high stability, in compliance with IT standards, generating value in a university context, and be future-proof. Furthermore, we believe that in order for a new LMS to truly support the strategy of implementing blended learning at CBS, the system must be easy and intuitive to work with for both students, teachers and administrators.
A new LMS can help to inspire teachers at CBS to try new teaching methods and share learning materials with each other and the world around CBS, and will focus on the pedagogical and didactic practices that ensure that all students are challenged.
— support better learning for more students by offering modern, scalable, and flexible educational tools, with respect to the students' different backgrounds and learning preferences,
— help secure the future of educational opportunities by integration with CBS’ other IT systems and incorporate third-party learning applications,
— provide a platform that enables automatic gathering of data supporting the continually research and development of education at CBS.
Tender concerns delivery, integration, operation, maintenance and support of a Learning Management System
The candidate must use the European Single Procurement Document as provisional evidence in replacement of certificates issued by public authorities or third parties confirming that the candidate fulfils the minimum requirement stated below with respect to the the standards required, and how the candidate fulfils the objective and non-discriminating criteria for prequalification, cf. § 148(1), cf. § 145(2) of the Danish Act on Public Procurement (act nº 1564 of 15.12.2015 — available at www.retsinformation.dk). Prior to CBS's decision concerning award of the contract, the candidate to whom CBS intends to award the contract must submit documentation for the information given in the European Single Procurement Document in accordance with § 151 of the said Act. It is stated in the tender instructions, section 3.12 exactly what this documentation will consist of. CBS shall exclude a candidate from participation in the tender procedure, if the candidate is subject to one of the mandatory exclusion grounds in §§ 135 and 136 of the said Act. The candidate shall submit information in this respect in the European Single Procurement Document. Special attention is drawn to the fact that certain voluntary exclusion grounds have been made mandatory in § 136 of the Act. Please refer to The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority's guidance note for correct completion of the European Single Procurement Document.
Please note that in relation to section III.1.2 and III.1.3, a candidate may rely on the capacities of other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a supplier), regardless of the legal nature of the links between them. In this case, the candidate shall ensure that CBS receives his own European Single Procurement Document together with a separate European Single Procurement Document with the relevant information for each of the entities that the candidate relies on.
Additionally, where the candidate wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, the candidate shall prove to CBS that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example, by producing a commitment or other documentation from those entities confirming their legal obligation to provide the necessary resources for the duration of the contract, e.g. by completing the form for submission of commitment which is available as part of the tender material. This form for commitment must be sent to CBS as part of the documentation for the information stated in the ESPD.
Finally when groups of entities, including temporary joint ventures, participate in the tender procedure together, each of the participating entities must complete a separate European Single Procurement Document with the information required in Section II-IV. A declaration for consortium must be sent to CBS as part of the documentation for the information stated in the ESPD.
Pursuant to Danish Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement (act nº 492 of 12.5.2010 with subsequent amendments — available at www.retsinformation.dk), the following time limits for filing a complaint apply:


Winner: Instructure Global Limited
Award value: 4200000
Number of bids: 4