Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-09-03
Buyer: Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization
Country: DK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34933000 | 35422000: Parts and accessories for armoured vehicles | 38110000

Technical requirements: The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (hereinafter referred to as DALO) plans to invite tenders for a Framework Agreement regarding acquisition of a 3D Inertial System (INS) for vehicles and is therefore looking for information on how to structure a possible future tender.
The purpose of this request for information (RFI) is to understand how the best possible tender can be arranged both for DALO and the suppliers according to EC regulation. It should be stressed that this notice is not a call for tenders and participation in the discussions will not be required for later participation.
By a 3D Inertial System, DALO understands a system which is mounted on a vehicle and primarily will be able to provide Position, Navigation and Timing information (PNT) in close connection with a Military GPS (MIL GPS). The INS shall improve the PNT coming from the GPS and the GPS shall stabilize the PNT data from the INS. In circumstances where the GPS signals are denied, the INS shall be able to give the vehicle PNT at a certain time.
As part of the preparation DALO would like to invite potential contractors to a discussion for the purpose of gathering information to be used for the preparation of future tender documents. DALO is conducting the discussion/market survey via Mercell Sourcing Services (http://permalink.mercell.com/61088708.aspx). DALO does currently not plan to arrange subsequent technical dialogue meetings with participants. However, based on the information obtained from the RFI, DALO reserves the right to do so if further insight into the information obtained via the RFI questionnaire is deemed desirable. DALO furthermore reserves the right to ask participants to elaborate on the answers provided in the RFI.
For instructions regarding access to documents and practicalities in relation to the technical dialogue / market survey, please see section VI.2).
The purchaser is using Mercell Sourcing Services for this RFI. To notify your interest and get access to documents, you must copy and paste the following link into the address-part on your browser (http://permalink.mercell.com/61088708.aspx).
If you are not a licensee of Mercell Denmark A/S, fill out a registration of your company. This registration is required for your continued participation and is free of charge. After sending the registration you have free access to all documents. You will receive access codes to www.mercell.com during normal working hours and can then access the documents. The potential contractors are expected to be operators within the market for Inertial Systems.
For the discussion DALO has prepared a Request for Information questionnaire where the potential contractors are asked to give their opinion on commercial and technical matters. DALO would like to encourage potential contractors to obtain the questionnaire via Mercell Sourcing Services, see also Annex A.l, and return it in filled out form — in English or in Danish no later than 26.09.2016.
This prior information notice is to inform interested contractors of the possibility to participate in the abovementioned market survey/discussion. Potential contractors are kindly made aware, that aside from the Request for Information mentioned above, no further information regarding tender material, documents, conditions or the tender procedure is available prior to publication of a contract notice. Questions to the procedure can be submitted via the communication ‘tab’ in Mercell.
DALO does currently not plan to arrange subsequent technical dialogue meetings with participants. However, based on the information obtained from the RFI, DALO reserves the right to do so if further clarifying information is deemed desirable. In this case, DALO reserves the right only to invite a limited number of participants.
DALO emphasizes that this notice is not a call for pre-qualification applications, and participation in the discussion will not be required for prequalification in a possible coming call for tenders. It should furthermore be stressed that replies given during the period of discussion will not in any way be part of any later assessment. The purpose of this request for information (RFI) is solely to give DALO wide background knowledge about the possibilities and challenges in the market.