Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-11-13
Buyer: Energinet
Country: DK
Region: DK032
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000
Estimated value: 21600000 EUR
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Through the establishment of the present framework agreements, the Contracting Authority’s purpose of the tender is to find a strategic Supplier for each of the two (2) lots with high expertise in delivering security pipelines for platform & infrastructure layers for applications used to control Operational Technology (OT).  - Lot 1 regards: Platform Service DevOps Engineers - Lot 2 regards: Infrastructure DevOps Engineers.  Each lot will be awarded to one (1) Tenderer. The lots are individual framework agreements that do not depend on each other.
Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision. Other 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 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, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
Through the establishment of the present framework agreements, the Contracting Authority’s purpose of the tender is to find a strategic Supplier for each of the two (2) lots with high expertise in delivering security pipelines for platform & infrastructure layers for applications used to control Operational Technology (OT).
Lot 1 regards: Platform Service DevOps Engineers
Lot 2 regards: Infrastructure DevOps Engineers.  
Each lot will be awarded to one (1) Tenderer. The lots are individual framework agreements that do not depend on each other.

The Tenderer can apply for prequalification for both lots or for one lot. Please note that there are individual criteria for suitability and selection see section 2.2 and 2.3 in the Tender Conditions.
As a result thereof a Tenderer can be prequalified to submit a tender for both lots as well. There are no limits to how many lots can be won by one Tenderer.

For further details concerning the purchase, reference is made to the appendices to the tender documents.
The total purchase is made for a period of 4 year(s) from the signing of the framework agreement with the option of an extension for 4x1 years. Orders under the framework agreement will be allocated directly to the supplier which, in the view of the Contracting Authority, has submitted the most economically advantageous tender, see section 4.1 in the Tender Conditions.
The estimated consumption during the term of the framework agreements is expected to amount to:

- Lot 1: EUR 14,040,000.00
- Lot 2: EUR 7,560,000.00

Maximum consumption pr. lot during the term of the framework agreements amounts to:

- Lot 1: EUR 54,050,000.00
- Lot 2: EUR 29,325,000.00

The consumption figures are estimates only and are consequently not binding for the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority is not obligated to purchase solely from the framework agreements and may in connection with single-standing purchases choose to tender these independently.
The Contracting authority reserves the right to award the contracts under the present framework agreement as periodic contracts as defined in the preparatory work to article 97 of The Public Procurement Act (Act. No. 1564 of 15 December 2015). The award of a periodic contract entail that one supplier is chosen for a period of either 12, 24, 36 and 48 months (however no longer than 24 months after the expiry of the framework agreement) regarding the specified services under the frame agreement.”
Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision. Other 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 Un-ion (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 au-thority has entered a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing sys-tem, 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, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
Through the establishment of the present framework agreements, the Contracting Authority’s purpose of the tender is to find a strategic Supplier for each of the two (2) lots with high expertise in delivering security pipelines for platform & infrastructure layers for applications used to control Operational Technology (OT).

- Lot 1 regards: Platform Service DevOps Engineers
- Lot 2 regards: Infrastructure DevOps Engineers.

Each lot will be awarded to one (1) Tenderer. The lots are individual framework agreements that do not depend on each other.
The Tenderer can apply for prequalification for both lots or for one lot. Please note that there are individual criteria for suitability and selection see section 2.2 and 2.3 in the Tender Conditions.
As a result thereof a Tenderer can be prequalified to submit a tender for both lots as well. There are no limits to how many lots can be won by one Tenderer.

For further details concerning the purchase, reference is made to the appendices to the tender documents.

The total purchase is made for a period of 4 year(s) from the signing of the framework agreement with the option of an extension for 4x1 years. Orders under the framework agreement will be allocated directly to the supplier which, in the view of the Contracting Authority, has submitted the most economically advantageous tender, see section 4.1 in the Tender Conditions.
The estimated consumption during the term of the framework agreements is expected to amount to:
- Lot 1: EUR 14,040,000.00
- Lot 2: EUR 7,560,000.00

Maximum consumption pr. lot during the term of the framework agreements amounts to:
- Lot 1: EUR 54,050,000.00
- Lot 2: EUR 29,325,000.00
The consumption figures are estimates only and are consequently not binding for the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority is not obligated to purchase solely from the framework agreements and may in connection with single-standing purchases choose to tender these independently.
The Contracting authority reserves the right to award the contracts under the present framework agreement as periodic contracts as defined in the preparatory work to article 97 of The Public Procurement Act (Act. No. 1564 of 15 December 2015). The award of a periodic contract entail that one supplier is chosen for a period of either 12, 24, 36 and 48 months (however no longer than 24 months after the expiry of the framework agreement) regarding the specified services under the frame agreement.”


Winner: Mercell Holding ASA
Number of bids: 3