Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-17
Buyer: Energinet
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2017-12-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Energinet hereby initiates a tender concerning contract for delivery of an infrastructure platform for the DataHub system and associated systems that together cover the Energinet's obligation to operate the DataHub in accordance with the Electricity Supply Act. As Energinet's current Hosting Agreement for DataHub expires Energinet would like to offer a new 4 year Hosting Contract with option for extension of up to two (2) years.
Through the establishment of the present Framework Agreement, the Contracting authority wants a delivery of a Platform as a Service Solution, including Virtualization, Server, Storage and Networking (PaaS) according to schedule 2. Delivery of Datacenter Services according to schedule 4.2, including Operation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Infrastructure including Runtime as well as error correction in collaboration with the Application Provider. Delivery of Cross tower Services according to schedule 4.1. Delivery of Transition and Transformation Services according to schedule 3. For further details concerning the purchase reference is made to the appendices to the tender documents. The total purchase is made for a period of 4 years from the signing of the Framework Agreement with the option af an extension for up to two (2) years.
The Contracting Authority will prequalify the 5 applicants who are evaluated as most qualified for the specific tender. Only these applicants will be invited to submit a tender. The selection of the applicants will be based on the submitted references. That is to which extend the reference(s) are similar to the tender assignment. As a result the number of references will not be the determining factor alone, but more importantly to which degree the specific forwarded references are comparable and relevant to the tender assignment regarding solution and scope.
The contracting Authority will only enter into contract with economic solid companies. This to ensure that the company continues to exist through the whole contract period.
The applicant must confirm the economic ability in the ESPD part IV.B: ‘Economic and financial standing’ with information from the latest annual report regarding the following economic indicators:
If the applicant is relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor) the information for the ESPD part IV.B must also be given in a separate ESPD from each of the entities, cf. section VI.3 ‘Additional information’.
— Equity ratio must be at least 20 pct. If the equity ratio is between 15 pct and 20 pct the supplier can qualify, if Equity exceeds the total expected amount of the contract.
The references of the most significant comparable contracts undertaken in the past five (5) years must be stated in the ESPD part IV.C: ‘Technical and professional ability’.
— A detailed description of the work performed for each reference (please note the ‘description’ box can contain more text than is visible, that is, it is possible to copy paste text into the box)
If the applicant is relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor) the information for the ESPD part IV.C must also be given in a separate ESPD from each of the entities, cf. section VI.3 ‘Additional information’.
The number of references should not surpass a maximum of the 5 most comparable and relevant references. If the reference list includes more than 5 references, the Contracting Authority will only consider the first 5 listed. If the applicant is participating in the procurement procedure together with others in a group of economic operators (e.g. a consortium) or is relying on the capacity of one or more other entities for references the maximum number of references to be submitted must still be respected and cannot exceed 5 when combined.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to contact the stated references. The references of the most significant comparable contracts undertaken in the past five (5) years must be stated in the ESPD part IV.C: ‘Technical and professional ability’.
— A detailed description of the work performed for each reference (please note the ‘description’ box can contain more text than is visible — that is, it is possible to copy paste text into the box). In the assessment, see section II.2.9 of the contract notice, special emphasis will be placed on the applicant's experience and ability with:
— Operation of systems and Data processing that are subject to the rule of war in accordance with Lov nr. 429 31/05/2000 (Persondataloven), § 41 stk. 4 (In Danish ‘Krigsreglen’)