Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-05-27
Buyer: Ministry of Taxation
Country: DK
Region: Byen København
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72250000: System and support services | 72300000 | 72310000: Data processing services
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Acquisition of Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services.
The Ministry of Taxation has established an Implementation Center for Property Valuation (ICE), which has been tasked with developing a property valuation system. In connection with this work, the contracting authority needs to make use of Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services. The contracting authority expects to use the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services to run the property valuation in its testing and development environment as well as in its production environment. The property valuation system is currently in development.
The quantitative usage of the individual cloud services, related support services and consultancy services may vary substantially in the duration of the contract.
This tender is conducted as an open procedure, cf. section 56-57 of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven) No 1564 15.12.2015 (i.e. the Danish implementation of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council). This tender concerns the acquisition of Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and Faas), related support services and consultancy services.
The contracting authority expects to use the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services to run the property valuation system in its testing and development environment as well as in its production environment. The property valuation system is currently in development.
The property valuation system is expected to be put into production in early 2018, however, it should be taken into consideration, that this might be subject to change, e.g. due to political decisions in the Danish Parliament. The organisational set-up of the Ministry of Taxation will, gradually change as from early 2017. Some existing agencies will continue unchanged and some will in whole or in part be merged into other existing agencies or agencies to be established. Therefore, the contracting authority needs to ensure a great level of flexibility concerning the use of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services as well as the ability to assign the rights and obligations in whole or in part under the contract.
The quantitative usage of the individual services of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services may vary substantially in the duration of the contract. The contracting authority shall have the right to switch between various versions of the services, related support services and consultancy services, such as geographical location of data centres and support tiers.
The tenderer shall provide updates and further developments of the Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and FaaS), related support services and consultancy services.
In case the Supplier markets new functions and/or new individual services or updates of existing functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services and/or related support services and/or consultancy services delivered under the contract, the contracting authority shall be entitled to purchase and use such new or improved functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services and/or support services and/or consultancy services in accordance with the contract.
The contracting authority has chosen not to subdivide the contract into lots, cf. Instructions to Tenderers.
The contract involves the processing of personal data. The contract therefore contains far-reaching requirements concerning data protection and information security. The tenderer therefore must sign a data processing agreement. All data shall at all times remain in the EU and/or EEA.
The Ministry of Taxation has previously called for tenders concerning this contract. This tender procedure was cancelled on 26.4.2017 due to a lack of competition.
The Ministry of Taxation has an urgent need to enter into a contract on the acquisition of cloud services, related support services and consultancy services at latest on 1.7.2017.
It is the view of the Ministry of Taxation that the urgent need makes it impossible to observe the normal time-limits and that it is therefore necessary to make use of the accelerated procedure, cf. section 57 (5) of the Danish Public Procurement Act. It is furthermore the view of the Ministry of Taxation that the urgent need calls for a procedure of no more than 21 calendar days. Due to the nature and characteristics of the tender, it is in the view of the Ministry of Taxation realistic for bidders to observe this time limit.