Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-09-16
Buyer: Danmarks Nationalbank
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72700000 | 72720000: Wide area network services
Estimated value: 533816.44 EUR
Submission deadline: 2031-11-20
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Danmarks Nationalbank’s payment system Kronos2 plays a central role in the infrastructure for handling payments in Denmark. From 2025, the settlement of Danish kroner will relocate to the new European 
consolidated payment and securities settlement platform, Target Services, which is operated by the European Central Bank, ECB. The migration to Target Services will bring several benefits for both Danmarks Nationalbank and payment system participants. The project for the migration of the Danish payments infrastructure to the Target Services platform is called TargetDKK.
The Eurosystem Single Market Infrastructure Gateway (ESMIG) is the technical component delivered as part of the Target Services platform. Via the ESMIG, Danmarks Nationalbank can access the market infrastructures that the Eurosystem provides.
Please refer to Appendix A to the tender specifications
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud m.v.) (the Act is available (in Danish) at www.retsinformation.dk), the following 
deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints:
Complaints of not having been selected must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public 
Procurement before the expiry of 20 calendar days, see section 7(1) of the Act, from the day after submission of notification to the candidates concerned of the identity of the successful tenderer where the notification is accompanied by an explanation of the grounds for the decision in accordance with section 2(1), para (1) of the Act and section 171(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
In other situations, complaints of award procedures, see section 7(2) of the Act, must be lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into if the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, 
see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting entity has submitted notification of its decision, see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
Not later than at the time of lodging a complaint with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting entity in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and whether the complaintwas lodged during the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1) of the Act.
The e-mail address of the Complaints Board for Public Procurement is klfu@naevneneshus.dk.
The Complaints Board’s own complaints procedure is available at https://naevneneshus.dk/start-din-klage/klagenaevnet-for-udbud/vejledning
This procurement aims a entering into a principal ESMIG Connectivity Services Agreement and a secondary DUAL Connectivity Services Agreement.
Lot no 1, ESMIG Connectivity Service Agreement, is Danmarks Nationalbank’s primary connectivity agreement. 
The agreement aims at ensuring access to Target Services in A2A mode with the exchange of messages and files in XML format using the ISO20022 standard and in U2A mode via a browser using the HTTPs protocol. The agreement also aims at ensuring access to Value Added Services within the scope of the agreement.
Please refer to Appendix A to the tender specification


Winner: S.W.I.F.T SC
Award value: 44400
Number of bids: 2