Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-13
Buyer: EKF Danmarks Eksportkredit
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72260000: Software-related services | 79212110
Estimated value: 1660000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2020-08-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: EFK Danmarks Eksportkredit (hereinafter ‘EKF’) is the Danish export credit agency. EKF’s objective is to facilitate Danish companies’ internationalisation opportunities and to create growth and jobs in Denmark. In that connection EKF among other things provides export loans. EKF is launching a call for tenders with the aim to establish contracts with suppliers of credit rating systems. The purpose of the tender is to obtain a contract for a rating and data solution on a global scale (contract I) including the functionality of calculating default ratings, scoring of corporates and projects, accessing a database (containing among others corporate financial information and external rating, etc.) and is used by the department’s handling customers, guarantees, risks and aftercare of the port-folio and to obtain a contract for a rating and data solution on a national scale (Nordic region) (contract II) including a functionality of calculating default ratings (National and Nordics).
EKF Danmarks Eksportkredit (‘the Customer’) is Denmark’s export credit agency. The Customers objective is to facilitate Danish companies’ internationalisation opportunities and to create growth and jobs in Denmark. The Customer helps Danish enterprises to realise their export dreams by providing export credits, working capital guarantees and export loans to enable them to finance their activities and cover commercial and political risks in their export markets.
The Customer is the only organisation in Denmark that provides cover for extraordinary export risks that the private market is unable or unwilling to guarantee or provide financing to. The Customer operates with a long-term perspective and the risk exposure necessary in countries and markets where the political and commercial situation may be uncertain.
The Customer is utilising various score card models developed by internationally recognised credit rating agencies in the credit risk assessment and internal rating of corporate risk and project financing transactions. As part of present agreements, the Customer also has access to databases with financial information and external ratings of corporates and financial institutions. Rating results from these tools are used in internal communication of credit risk and in the decision making and pricing of new transactions, for ongoing portfolio monitoring purposes and in communication with the owner of the Customer, auditors and the reinsurance market.
EKF is looking for a rating and data solution which covers the following main functional areas, all described in Appendix 1 for contract I:
EKF Danmarks Eksportkredit (‘the Customer’) is Denmark’s export credit agency. The Customers objective is to facilitate Danish companies’ internationalisation opportunities and to create growth and jobs in Denmark. The Customer helps Danish enterprises to realise their export dreams by providing export credits, working capital guarantees and export loans to enable them to finance their activities and cover commercial and political risks in their export markets.
The Customer is the only organisation in Denmark that provides cover for extraordinary export risks that the private market is unable or unwilling to guarantee or provide financing to. the Customer operates with a long-term perspective and the risk exposure necessary in countries and markets where the political and commercial situation may be uncertain.
The Customer is utilising various score card models developed by internationally recognised credit rating agencies in the credit risk assessment and internal rating of corporate risk and project financing transactions. As part of present agreements, the Customer also has access to databases with financial information and external ratings of corporates and financial institutions. Rating results from these tools are used in internal communication of credit risk and in the decision making and pricing of new transactions, for ongoing portfolio monitoring purposes and in communication with the owner of the Customer, auditors and the reinsurance market.
EKF is looking for a rating and data solution which covers the following main functional areas, all described in Appendix 1 for contract II:
The tenderer must submit the European Single Procurement Document (‘ESPD’) with the following information:
If the tenderer relies on the economic and financial capacity of other entities, the tenderer and the entities in question undertake joint and several liability for the performance of the contract.
The ESPD serves as provisional documentation that the tenderer fulfils the minimum suitability requirements in respect of economic and financial capacity.
Before the decision to award the contract is made, the tenderer to whom the contracting entity intends to award the contract must submit documentation that the information stated in the ESPD is accurate.
Upon the contracting entity's request, the following documentation of economic and financial capacity must be submitted:
The operator's balance sheets or extracts from balance sheets in the most recent annual report/financial statement available if publication of the balance sheets is required under law in the country in which the operator is established or other documentation of the size of the equity. For groups of operators (e.g. a consortium), the information in the most recent annual report/financial statement available must be submitted for each participating operator in the group. Where an operator relies on the economic and financial capacity of other entities (e.g. a parent company, a sister company or a subcontractor), information for such other entities must be provided as well.


Award value: 1660000