Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-03-25
Buyer: Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 35700000: Military electronic systems | 35720000: Intelligence and surveillance systems
Estimated value: 1 DKK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: DALO has entered into an agreement with the United States Navy to acquire Anti-Submarine Warfare equipment to the Danish Seahawk Helicopters. This equipment consists of Sonars, sonobuoyes, sonobuoye launchers, updating of software in the Seahawk helicopters, updating of Seahawk simulator, relevant spareparts and support equipment, technical support from the US Navy and training in Anti-Submarine Warfare equipment with the US Navy.
DALO has entered into a government-to-government agreement with the US Navy. This acquisition concerns military materiel. Contracts and framework agreements that a government enters into with another government is exempt from directive 2009/81/EF, cf. art. 13, letter f. On this ground DALO will enter into a contract with the US Navy.
Information about the final value of the contract on the contract award may be withheld from publication where release of such information would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest, in particular defence and/or security interests, would harm the legitimate commercial interests of economic operators, public or private, or might prejudice fair competition between them, cf. directive 2009/81/EF, art. 30 (3), section 3.
Pursuant to Section 7(2) of the Danish Consolidation Act no. 593 of 2 June 2016 on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (available at www.retsinformation.dk), complaints must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);
2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;
3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, cf. § 2(2) or § 171(4) of the Public Procurement Act, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
The complainant must inform the contracting authority of the complaint in writing at the latest simultaneously with the lodge of the complaint to The Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the stand-still period, cf. § 6(4) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement. If the complaint has not been lodged in the stand-still period, the complainant must also state whether it is requested that the appeal is granted delaying effect, cf. § 12(1) of the said Act.
The Complaints Board for Public Procurement’s own guidance note concerning complaints is available at the internet address stated in section VI.4.1.


Award value: 1
Number of bids: 1