Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-12-22
Buyer: The Danish Ministry of Taxation represented by The IT and Development Agency of the Danish Ministry of Taxation
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72240000 | 72250000: System and support services | 72260000: Software-related services
Estimated value: 76246378.82 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Contract concerns the delivery of Cloud Services and Professional Services, and any subsequent amendments hereof within the scope of the Contract.
The Customer is currently using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as cloud technology including a wide set of cloud-agnostic and AWS-native features for development and operation. Among other the Customer has extensive usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, functions (Lambda in AWS) and IaaS in various areas including containers, computing and serverless computing as well as storage.
Some of the Cloud Services include requirements regarding compatibility with products or services which are currently in use by the Customer, including Kubernetes, operating system Linux, operating system Windows, the system Postgresql multi-AZ, the system Microsoft SQL Standard Edition single-AZ, search engine Elastic search, software Hadoop, and the software RabbitMQ.
The Customer expects to use the Services to support various activities within the obligations of the Ministry of Taxation currently organised in the Implementation Centre for Assessment of Real Estate (ICE), including development and opera-tion of a valuation system as well as associated general and specific functionality. The Cloud Services shall cover both the Customer’s development, testing, training, Pre-production Environment and Production Environments, as well as any other environment that the Customer may choose to establish.
The Cloud Services cover a range of services within the Cloud Service Categories: Function as a Service, Application Devel-opment, Containers, Compute and Storage, Database, Data Analytics, Network, Messaging, Monitoring, Tracking and Man-agement, Data Management, Blockchain, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence and Knowledge-based systems, Internet of Things, Device Management, Digital Communication and Business Application Software. The Supplier shall within the Cloud Service Categories provide the Cloud Services on demand and as requested and used by the Customer at any time during the Contract. The Customers quantitative usage of the individual Cloud Services may vary substantially in the dura-tion of the Contract. The Supplier shall provide updates and further developments of the Cloud Services. In case the Supplier within the Cloud Service Categories gives access to new services within Cloud Services provided and/or gives access to new individual services or updates of existing functions and/or services as part of the Cloud Services delivered under the Contract, the Customer shall be entitled to access and use of such new or improved functions and/or individual services as part of the Cloud Services within the Cloud Service Categories.
The Professional Services cover services of Managed Support Services, Support Plans, Consultancy Services, and Transition In. Managed Support Services are a continuous service which cover the operation and maintenance of selected cloud environ-ments and cloud accounts. Support Plans are support services specifically aimed at the Cloud Services. Consultancy Services are services by order, which cover services, that are not covered by Managed Support Services and support the contracting entity in the application of the Cloud Services as intended, including strategic and operational advisory services regarding the configuration, application and operation of the Cloud Services, migrations of data etc. Transition In covers the transition of the Professional Services, which the Supplier shall deliver. The Customer shall perform the transition of Cloud Services from the existing cloud technology to any new cloud technology, which forms part of the winning tender.
A market consultation has been conducted prior to this call for tenders. Relevant material from this consultation is accessible at the website of the contracting entity: https://eu.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/279089/0/0?returnUrl=&b=SKATTEMINISTERIET.
Participation in the tendering procedure may only take place by electronic means via the elec-tronic tendering system used by the contracting entity, see the address set out in section I.3). For access to the procurement documents, the candidate must be registered.
If the application contains several versions of the same document, the latest uploaded version will apply.
All communication in connection with the tender procedure, including questions and answers, must take place through the electronic tendering system. Questions must be submitted not lat-er than January 4, 2021, 12.00 PM. Questions asked after this date will be answered if they are received in time for the contracting entity to provide the information required and communi-cate the answers not later than six days before expiry of the application deadline. Questions received later than six days before expiry of the deadline cannot expect to be answered.
The candidate must as its application submit an ESPD as preliminary documentation of the circumstances set out in section 148(1), paras 1-3 of the Danish Public Procurement Act (ud-budsloven), and section 137(1) para 2 of the Danish Public Procurement Act. For groups of op-erators (e.g. a consortium), a separate ESPD must be submitted for each participating opera-tor. If the candidate relies on the capacities of other entities, an ESPD must be submitted for each of the entities.
In this procedure, the candidate may rely on the technical and/or financial capacity of other operators to fulfil the suitability requirements stated in section III.1.2) and III.1.3), including for the purpose of selection, see section II.2.9). The operator(s) making its/their technical and/or financial capacity available to the candidate must sign a letter of commitment. The form is enclosed as an attachment to the tender specifications.
The candidate will be excluded from participation in the tender procedure if the candidate is subject to the compulsory grounds for exclusion set out in sections 135 and 136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act and the exclusion grounds stated in the Danish Public Procurement Act, section 137(1), para 2, unless the candidate has submitted sufficient documentation of its reliability in accordance with section 138 of the Danish Public Procurement Act
Before the award decision is made, the tenderer to whom the contracting entity intends to award the contract must provide documentation of the information submitted in the ESPD pursuant to sections 151-152, cf. section 153 of the Danish Public Procurement Act. The con-tracting entity reserves the right to ask a tenderer to provide documentation at any time dur-ing the tender procedure, if this is necessary to ensure that the procedure is carried out cor-rectly.


Winner: Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerskab
Award value: 76246378.82
Number of bids: 3