Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-09-15
Buyer: The Ministry of Immigration and Integration
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72212517 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72227000: Software integration consultancy services
Estimated value: 103371342.29 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The scope of this tender is for the Contracting Authority (the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration – hereinafter referred to as “UIM”) to acquire a biometric matching system (hereinafter referred to as “BMS”) for matching of aliens, which shall be implemented into UIM’s IT portfolio. The contract shall cover IT support of biometric identification of aliens including the implementation, maintenance, sup-port and further development of the BMS supplemented by additional systems, IT solutions and associated IT consultancy services related hereto.
The background of this tender is the Danish Parliament’s adoption of the Consolidation Act No. 1022 of 2 October 2019 (the Aliens Act), which aims to let Danish authorities across the field of immigration establish and verify the identity of aliens in a quicker, suppler and more reliable way. The Danish authorities including UIM therefore now have legal capacity to record, store and process biometric data (finger-prints and facial photographs) on aliens to a greater extent than previously.
On this basis UIM wishes to acquire a BMS and to include such IT system in the current administrative procedures of UIM and UIM’s IT portfolio. The BMS shall be used for daily tasks in relation to identification of aliens and enable UIM to work with existing systems and registries of alien identities which form the basis for the case handling. Where appropriate, the BMS must additionally be able to support other authorities’ execution of tasks, including the Danish police, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish regions and municipalities.
The contract will be covering the most significant technology areas for biometric matching and corresponding interfaces and integration points and among others contribute to ensure an effective and high quality IT solution for biometric matching of aliens provided to UIM to strengthen security and enhance identification usability in terms of response times and quality of data. Moreover, the contract shall provide the foundation for UIM to further expand and enhance the BMS in regard to new technology, including new development as well as any further additions, expansions and improvements to the existing solution.
c) further development and associated consultancy services to an IT-solution regarding biometric identification of aliens
It is noted that the total value of the contract in section II.1.7) is an expression of the winning tenderer's total price for the evaluation scenario and the customer's purchase costs from SIT based on the tenderer's capacity specifications.
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:
Complaints for not having been selected must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of 20 calendar days, see section 7(1) of the Act, from the day after submission of notification to the candidates concerned of the identity of the successful tenderer where the notification is accompanied by an explanation of the grounds for the decision in accordance with section 2(1), para (1) of the Act and section 171(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
In other situations, complaints of award procedures, see section 7(2) of the Act, must be lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into where the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting entity has submitted notification of its decision, see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
Not later than at the time of lodging a complaint with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting entity in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and whether the appeal was lodged during the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1) of the Act.


Winner: Idemia Identity & Security France
Award value: 103371342.29
Number of bids: 3