Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-07-24
Buyer: Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics
Country: DK
Region: DK012
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 32570000 | 35700000: Military electronic systems
Estimated value: 200000000 DKK
Award criteria: price

Technical requirements: The acquisition concerns the procurement of systems intended to support a military build-up and significantly enhance battlefield awareness for the Royal Danish Navy and the Danish Defence. It also aims to ensure that Denmark can continue to participate in coordinated NATO operations through Link capabilities.

The new Multi-Link System (MLS) will support tactical information exchange via the Multi-Function Information Distribution System (MIDS)/Link 16, Link 22, and the Joint Range Extension Application Protocol (JREAP)-C/Link 16.

The most essential feature of the new MLS is to provide the Royal Danish Navy with Link 16, JREAP-C, and Link 22 capabilities, thereby enabling cooperation both within the Royal Danish Navy and with coalition partners. These capabilities will support communication in both Line of Sight and Beyond Line of Sight scenarios.

Furthermore, current operational requirements necessitate achieving a limited level of interoperability with national and coalition forces as a matter of urgency, ahead of full MLS integration, hence only suppliers which previous have delivered link22 to other comparable navies have been preferred. 

The MLS will be installed and operated on 12 ships over the duration of the contract, which is expected to run for 30 years.

To safeguard Denmark’s essential security interests, the procedure has been conducted pursuant to Article 346(1)(b) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and is therefore exempt from the general EU public procurement rules.

Based on the above, the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) has concluded a contract with Tecnobit for the acquisition of the Multi-Link Processor (MLP), including support for sustainment and training.
The work will primarily be carried out at different locations in Denmark.
The contract award procedure is described under 'Further Information'.
DALO has followed the procedure of section 4 of the Danish Consolidation (Act no. 593 of 2 June 2016, as amended) and published prior to entering the contract. 

Pursuant to section 7(3) of the Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, in the cases where a contracting entity has followed the procedure in section 4, a complaint that the contracting entity has concluded a contract without a prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union must be lodged with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 30 calendar days calculated from the date after the date when the contracting entity has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, provided that the notice includes the reasons for the contracting entity’s decision to award the contract without a prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The complainant must inform the contracting entity of the complaint in writing not later than simultaneously with the lodging of the complaint to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the period of 10 calendar days stated in section 4(1), paragraph (2). In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the period mentioned, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1).

The Complaints Board for Public Procurement’s own guidance note concerning complaints is available on the Complaints Boards website.
The contract includes the acquisition of 13 Multi Link Processors (MLP) and a framework agreement for the sustainment of the Multi Link Processor (MLP). The contract will remain in force until all deliveries have been completed. The framework agreement has an initial term of 20 years and may be extended twice, each time for a period of 5 years.


Winner: Tecnobit
Award value: 14016000
Number of bids: 2