Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-28
Buyer: NORDunet A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30233100 | 30233180 | 48820000: Servers | 48822000: Computer servers
Submission deadline: 2018-08-17
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.
This Agreement shall commence on the Commencement Date and shall remain in force until the end date unless
a) extended by the Customer for no more than 2 periods each of one (1) year following the initial 5-year Term or
— 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.
— “Specific yearly turnover” for the business area storage solutions must be submitted for the each of previous three (3) years for concluded fiscal years at the time for bid response deadline.
"Specific yearly turnover” for the business area storage solutions must be submitted for the each of previous three (3) years for concluded fiscal years at the time for bid response deadline, cf. Vol 1 — Instructions, section 2.1.1.
The bidder must have a specific yearly turnover of at least 1 000 000 EUR for the business area storage solutions.
The Bidder must provide three (3) references with comparable deliveries with similar solutions, cf. Vol 1 — Instructions, section 2.1.1.
The Bidder must submit three (3) references with ”comparable deliveries with similar solutions” with at least the following requirements:
1) Bidders may ask clarification questions up to five 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.

Eligibility requirements: The Bidder must submit an ESPD with response to the following: Part II: Information concerning the economic operator: — Ad. A: Information about the economic operator. — Ad. B: Information about representatives of the economic operator #1. — Ad. C: Information about reliance on the capacities of other entities. Part III: Exclusion grounds: — Ad. A: Grounds relating to criminal convictions — Ad. B: Grounds relating to the payment of taxes or social security contributions — Ad. C: Grounds relating to insolvency, conflicts of interest or professional misconduct. Part IV: Selection criteria, ad. B – Economic and financial standing — “Specific yearly turnover” for the business area storage solutions must be submitted for the each of previous three (3) years for concluded fiscal years at the time for bid response deadline. Part IV: Selection criteria, ad. C: Technical and/or professional ability — The Bidder must provide three (3) references with comparable deliveries with similar solutions. Del V: Reduction of the number of qualified candidates Please answer “Yes” if the Bidder meets the criteria and refer to part IV of the ESPD.