Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-01-17
Buyer: Danmarks Nationalbank
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72222000: Information systems strategic planning services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72265000: Software configuration services
Estimated value: 2137500 EUR
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Danmarks Nationalbank is the central bank of Denmark and is a self-governing, independent institution. Danmarks Nationalbank's 3 main objectives are to contribute to ensuring stable prices, safe payments and a stable financial system. Danmarks Nationalbank is banker to the banks. A number of financial institutions hold accounts with Danmarks Nationalbank, which are used for e.g. transferring money among the institutions. Danmarks Nationalbank uses several systems for transfer and settlement, such as Kronos2 and Target2. Calypso is the part of Kronos2 that is used for collateral management in the area of monetary policy. It is also Danmarks Nationalbank's Front-Middel-Back-office system. As a result of a change in the IT Strategy, Danmarks Nationalbank has decided to let the Calypso system be hosted as a SaaS cloud solution. To ensure this process, several contracts are to be entered into with Calypso Technology Inc.
The parties has entered into an agreement ensuring the technical platform for a testing environment. The agreement will automatically be terminated on execution of a Master SaaS agreement, which will be prerequisite for production use.
As a consequence, the migration project agreed upon in this agreement is covered by the Calypso IP and exclusive rights in such a way that no other supplier is permitted by Calypso to perform such tasks.
The total price stated in Section II.1.7) and V.2.4) is based on a 3-year agreement including options. When the Master SaaS Agreement is entered into for production, this agreement (schedule 4) will automatically be terminated and the price will be reduced. Furthermore, the total value will be reduced, if all options are not called.
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet forUdbud m.v.) (the Act is available (in Danish) at www.retsinformation.dk), the following deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints:
Complaints for 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 theAct 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 where 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 appeal was lodged during the standstill period,see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged during the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see clause 12(1) of the Act.


Winner: Calypso Technology Inc.
Award value: 2137500
Number of bids: 1