Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-01-14
Buyer: Energinet Elsystemansvar A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72110000 | 72120000 | 72130000
Estimated value: 250000000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Nordic RSC (Regional Security Coordinator) is a joint office owned by Energinet, Fingrid, Svenska Kraftnät and Statnett with the purpose of delivering operational coordination in the Nordic electricity system. Energinet is empowered by the TSOs to conduct the tendering process. The role of the Nordic RSC within the agreed different services is to provide coordination services for the secure operation of the European transmission system, to build consistent regional data, to perform analyses, making recommendations and otherwise support harmonizing of operational procedures and standards, assisting the Parties to maintain security of supply. The Nordic RSC needs to deliver the following five essential coordination functions:
Currently, Energinet is appointed as the hosting TSO for the Nordic RSC, thus Energinet is also responsible for providing server capacity and other IT tools for the Nordic RSC’s current business functions and future functions as defined by the ENTSO-E rules. In this context, Energinet requires an IT infrastructure Framework Agreement covering IT operations for primarily involved IT systems, but also other systems used by Nordic RSC e.g. administrative IT systems. Selected IT systems ranging from systems which are business critical, systems containing security sensitive data to systems which are neither business critical nor handle any security sensitive data.
The overall target of this procurement is to ensure high quality and reliability in the daily operation of the common Nordic RSC/TSO business process and to provide common basis for the business and support for the existing business processes and any additional business processes which may be defined by the TSOs or Nordic RSC.
Energinet would like to conclude a Framework Agreement with a partner that can provide IT operations, including:
2.	Architecture such as workplace architecture, infrastructure architecture and enterprise/applications architecture
7.	Workplace Services such as Collaboration, Device Management, Remote Connectivity, Client Computing, Workplace applications, Content filtering service and telephony
8.	Busines Application Services such as Technical Application Management, Application Operations, Database Management, Application and database basics, Middleware Management, Platform Services and OS
9.	Infrastructure Services such as housing, hosting, network, Virtual/Physical Compute, Storage, load balancing, firewall and domain services
Furthermore, the Framework Agreement will include support and recurring consultancy services - see also remaining description in the last part of VI.3 (due to limited space in this section)
Option 1: The Customer has an option of prolonging the Framework Agreement for a period up to an aggregate of thirty-six (36) months from the end date of the Framework Agreement, at the Customer’s sole discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, the Customer can choose a prolongation of less than thirty-six (36) months and may (again) choose prolongation within the aggregate of the remaining thirty-six (36) months from the expiration of the five (5) Year Term.
Option 2: The Customer is currently a part of Energinet, but it is the intention that the Customer shall be divested into a separate legal entity owned by the four (4) TSOs, which will assume all rights and obligations of the Customer pursuant to the Framework Agreement. In this regard the Customer has an option to transfer the Frame Agreement from Energinet to the separate legal entity owned by the four (4) TSOs.
This is a negotiated procedure. With exception of mandatory parts, Tender Documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotiation process.The  applicant is to submit a customer statement for minimum 2 references on the accuracy of references provided and signed by a relevant responsible person (for example, the relevant project manager) at the reference customer in question.
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.
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);


Winner: NNIT A/S
Award value: 250000000