Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-01-27
Buyer: Danish Embassy in Uganda
Country: UG
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34100000 | 34113000: Four-wheel-drive vehicles | 34113200 | 34113300 | 34115200
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Procurement of vehicles for the Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda Component of the U-Growth II Programme
The Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda Component of the U-Growth II Programme has a strategic intervention called Local District Government Capacity Building. Under this intervention, 6 districts will be provided with a total of 11 double cabin pickups. The vehicles will be used in remote areas in Northern Uganda where they should be able to drive on rough and muddy gravel roads. Furthermore, there should be authorised workshops for the particular brand offered by the tenderers in West-Nile and Acholi Subregion preferably in the towns of Arua and Gulu.
The Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda Component of the U-Growth II Programme has a strategic intervention called Local District Government Capacity Building. Under this intervention, 6 districts will be provided with a total of 11 double cabin pickups. The vehicles will be used in remote areas in Northern Uganda where they should be able to drive on rough and muddy gravel roads.
Procurement of vehicles for the Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda Component of the U-Growth II Programme
Re. V.1) As all tenders received were not substantially responsive to the Contract Notice/and or the Tender Dossier, it wad decided to discontinue the tender procedure and retender the contract under a new tender.
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud m.v.) (the Act is available (in Danish) at www.retsinformation.dk), the following deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints:
Complaints for not having been selected must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of 20 calendar days, see section 7(1) of the Act, from the day after submission of notification to the candidates concerned of the identity of the successful tenderer where the notification is accompanied by an explanation of the grounds for the decision in accordance with section 2(1)(i) of the Act and section 171(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
In other situations, complaints of award procedures, see section 7(2) of the Act, must be lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of:
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting authority has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting authority has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with the reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into where the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.
3) 6 months after the contracting authority entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting authority notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting authority has submitted a notification of its decision; see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
Not later than at the time of lodging a complaint with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting authority in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and whether the appeal was lodged during the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged during the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see clause 12(1) of the Act.