Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-06
Buyer: DSB
Country: DK
Region: DANMARK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 32412100 | 32500000 | 32510000 | 32520000 | 32522000
Submission deadline: 2017-06-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DSB is tendering for supplier for a complete Wi-Fi system for rolling stock to be designed and delivered by supplier and operated by supplier upon DSB's installation into the rolling stock.
DSB is tendering for a supplier for Wi-Fi service for rolling stock to be designed, managed and operated on DSB's rolling stock (trains).
— a stable quality Wi-Fi service to DSB's passengers and personnel travelling on rolling stock from time to time covered by the scope;
— through the establishment and operation of DSB Passenger Wi-Fi facilitating that DSB's passengers and personnel can rely on being able to work while travelling by using internet carried services, i.e. facilitating a Functional Workspace on trains; and
— to ensure that the DSB Passenger Wi-Fi solution and related services are affordable and cost effective to DSB.
— a design for a quality Wi-Fi service for DSB's rolling stock in scope, such Wi-Fi service to be compatible with and operated by using DSB's pre-installed external antennas and cables on rolling stock,
— relevant and adequate train-side hardware and software components as well as required back-end functionalities (hardware and software, as applicable) to establish and operate such Wi-Fi service,
— the relevant services ensuring the continuous satisfactory operation of the Wi-Fi service according to agreed KPI's and other functional requirements, certain monitoring services and maintenance support, and
performing certain administrative services in terms of DSB's contracts for data backhaul, ensuring that data backhaul is provided and made available for consumption through the Wi-Fi service in rolling stock.For a detailed definition of the scope please refer to Schedule 1.2 Scope, and for requirement specifications please refer to Schedule 2.2 DSB's Wi-Fi Requirement Specification both documents provided as part of the tender material.
In addition, DSB can in the event of extraordinary circumstances which prevents DSB from appropriately transitioning, extend the contract for a period not exceeding 24 (twenty-four) months in aggregate.
DSB will prequalify up to 5 (five) applicants to take part in the procurement proceedings. Only prequalified applicants will be able to submit tenders in connection with the procurement.
If there are more than 5 (five) applicants, which meet the minimum requirements in section III.1.2, the selection of the applicants that will be invited to submit tenders will be based on an evaluation of the references provided by the applicants. The applicants with the references evaluated as most relevant will be invited to participate in the tender. This will be the applicants which have documented the most relevant previous experiences in comparison to the work described in section II.2.4) above in terms of comparability and volume of the previous deliveries. The greater the degree of comparability in the references, the more relevant the supplier will be evaluated. Experience with supply of Wi-Fi solutions on rolling stock, operation and management of Wi-Fi service for rolling stock and management of data backhaul contracts and related services are considered equally important. Experience with serving as a prime contractor for an end to end solution is preferred to other experiences to supply Wi-Fi solutions on rolling stock. Experience with multi-operator data backhaul management is preferred to other experiences with management of data backhaul contracts and related services. Additionally, recent references are evaluated being more relevant than older ones. Applicants is referred to the requested informations in section III.1.3 (Technical and professional ability) to check which information DSB would like to see incorporated in the reference description.
The tender include a range of options, for which the applicant must describe the specific technical solution and state a price.
DSB has included options for 4 (four) additional types of rolling stock. The OTU rolling stock type is covered by two alternative options. Further, a number of options regarding technical functionalities for the Wi-Fi service are included:
a. Delivery of equipment for and operation of a Wi-Fi service in up to 77 (seventy seven) IC4 trainsets;