Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-18
Buyer: National Agency for It and Learning
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72500000 | 72540000 | 72600000 | 72910000
Estimated value: 1500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-05-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The National Agency for IT and Learning wishes to enter into a contract on remotely managed private cloud for its OpenStack environment, including services as upgrades, updates and security patches, support, monitoring, error correction and consultancy services. The National Agency for IT and Learning will be responsible for the management of the guests and the hardware in the OpenStack environment. The OpenStack environment is based on Ubuntu (16.04 and 18.04).
The National Agency for IT and Learning (the costumer) wishes to enter into a contract on remotely managed private cloud for its OpenStack environment. OpenStack is based on Ubuntu (16.04 and 18.04) distribution by OpenStack. The customer shall be responsible for the management of the guests and the hardware in the OpenStack environment.
The supplier shall be responsible for all tasks that are a natural part of managing the environment, including the maintenance, including upgrades, updates and security patches, support, monitoring, error correction and timebased consultancy services. The tasks and the OpenStack components are specified in the tender documents.
The contract has to the relevant extent incorporated the corporate social responsibility considerations as laid down in the conventions on the basis of which the principles of the UN Global Compact are worded and as laid down in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The contract furthermore lays down requirements pursuant to ILO Convention No 94 on labour clauses in public contracts and Circular No 9471 of 30.6.2014.
Participation in the tendering procedure may only take place by electronic means via the electronic tendering system used by the contracting entity, see the address set out in Section I.3). The tendering procedure is accessed under “Ongoing public invitations to tender”. For access to the procurement documents, the tenderer must be registered or register as a user.
If the tender contains several versions of the same document, the latest uploaded version will apply.
All communication in connection with the tender procedure, including questions and answers, must take place through the electronic tendering system. Questions must be submitted not later than 7.5.2019. Questions asked after this date will be answered if they are received in time for the contracting authority to provide the information required and communicate the answers not later than 6 days before expiry of the application deadline. Questions received later than 6 days before expiry of the deadline cannot expect to be answered.
Interested operators are requested to keep updated via the electronic tendering system. If the tenderer] en-counters problems with the system, please contact support by email, dksupport@eu-supply.com or telephone (+45)7020 8014].
The tenderer must submit as its application an ESPD as preliminary documentation of the circumstances set out in Section 148(1) Paras (1)-(3) of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven). For groups of operators (e.g. a consortium), a separate ESPD must be submitted for each participating operator. If the tenderer relies on the capacity of other entities, an ESPD must be submitted for each of the entities on which the tenderer relies.
The tenderer will be excluded from participation in the tender procedure if the tenderer is subject to the compulsory grounds for exclusion set out in Sections 135 and 136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
Before the decision to award the contract is made, the tenderer to whom the Contracting Authority intends to award the contract must provide documentation of the information submitted in the ESPD pursuant to Sections 151-152, cf. Section 153 of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
As regards Section II.2.6), it should be noted that the amount is an estimate of the expected contract price for the entire duration of the contract. The estimate is based on the historical consumption over the last year.
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:


Award value: 1500000