Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-02-07
Buyer: Vejdirektoratet (The Danish Road Directorate)
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71311300 | 71313400 | 71322300 | 71323200
Estimated value: 170000000 DKK
Submission deadline: 2025-03-11
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: See the Public Procurement Act Section 135, subsection 1, no. 1.
See the Public Procurement Act Section 135, subsection 1, no. 2
See the Public Procurement Act Section 135, subsection 1, no. 3
See the Public Procurement Act Section 135, subsection 1, no. 4
See the Public Procurement Act Section 135, subsection 1, no. 5

Eligibility requirements: The candidate shall submit information about the company's net revenue for the last 3 available financial years in the "European Single Procurement Document" (ESPD). As documentation for net revenue, the candidate is requested to attach a copy of the annual accounts or an auditor's certified statement of net revenue. For companies that have been established for a shorter period, the information should be provided for as long a period of the financial year as possible. If the candidate is a consortium of companies, the information must be provided for each individual company, with the sum of the companies' net revenue meeting the minimum requirement. If the candidate is a consortium of companies, a power of attorney must be given to a person authorized to represent the consortium. All participating companies are jointly and severally liable for the fulfilment of the contract. If the candidate relies on the capabilities of other entities (e.g., subcontractors or other entities within the group), the candidate must demonstrate that they have the right to dispose of the necessary resources with these entities. This must be done by providing commitments from these entities in the form of a declaration of joint and several liability. Information is not required about other planned subconsultants whose economic and financial capacity the candidate is not relying on in order to meet the minimum requirement. 
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As a minimum requirement for suitability, an annual net revenue of at least 300,000,000 DKK is required for the last 3 available financial years. If the candidate relies on the capabilities of other entities, the revenue is calculated as the combined turnover of the candidate and these entities in each of the three most recent available financial years. In the case of a consortium of companies (e.g., a consortium), the turnover is calculated as the total turnover of the candidate in each of the three most recent available financial years.
The contracting authority has assessed that the number of comparative tasks in the past five (5) years has been limited, accordingly to Section 155(1) no. 1), 2nd point of the Public Procurement Act applies, in order to ensure adequate competition. References to documentation for the tenderer's technical and professional capacity can thus be carried out within the past ten (10) years. The extension from five (5) to ten (10) years takes place on the basis of a concrete assessment of how large a project pool there has been of comparable projects that the tenderers can use as reference projects in relation to the requirements.
The candidate must describe references in the ESPD or in a separate appendix that document that the minimum requirements under this point are met. The description should include the following information:
A) Start and end dates: Start and end dates of the contract, 
B) Adreesee: Client/recipient (name of company/organization), 
C) Description: Description of the service provided, and 
D) Amounts: The value of the contract. 
For ongoing references, the description should indicate the extent of the completed work. References for future tasks are not accepted. 
A reference must not exceed 3 A4 pages; if more pages are submitted, only the first 3 pages will be considered. 
A minimum of three (3) references and a maximum of five (5) references is required. This maximum number applies to the total number of references for the candidate and the companies on which the candidate relies for its capabilities. If the candidate is a consortium of companies, a list of references must be provided for each company, with the companies' combined references meeting the minimum requirement. If the candidate provides more than five (5) references, it does not make the application non-compliant or ineligible, but the contracting entity will only consider the 5 most recent references in the evaluation. 
If the candidate relies on the capabilities of other entities (e.g., subcontractors or other entities within the group), the candidate must demonstrate that they have access to the necessary resources from these entities. This must be done by providing commitments from these entities regarding their obligations in this regard. Commitments can be given by the entity filling out the relevant field in the ESPD and signing the ESPD. If the candidate relies on the technical and professional capacity of other entities, attention is drawn to the Public Procurement Act Section 144, subsection 3. Technical and professional information about other planned subcontractors, whose technical and professional capacity the candidate does not rely on to meet the minimum requirements, is not required. 
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Minimum requirements for technical and professional ability:
•	Experience within the last 10 years with design and tendering of cut and cover tunnels with installations and associated equipment, including experience with functional descriptions. 
•	Experience within the last 10 years with regulatory applications and mitigation measures in connection with noise, vibrations and other nuisance related from the construction work in densely populated areas.
•	Experience within the last 10 years with planning of major construction works in urban areas, including planning of traffic management during construction
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Four (4) candidates will be pre-qualified provided that a sufficient number of suitable applications have been received. If more than four (4) candidates are deemed suitable, the Contracting Entity will make a selection among the suitable candidates. 
Selection of candidates will be based on which candidates have documented the most relevant references. In the selection process, the Contracting Entity will emphasise the following in particular: 
Relevance to the tendered contract: 
•The candidate's references will be assessed based on, whether the content and size of the delivered service is comparable to the tendered task. 
• Particular emphasis is placed on whether references illustrate experience with design and tender of tasks for comparable multidisciplinary construction projects in urban areas as the project of the Contracting Entity. That the reference contains services provided to a customer/client, whose size and tasks are similar to those of the Contracting Entity. 
•Furthermore, more positive emphasis will be placed on newer references. 
Economic value of contract: 
•The candidate's reference will also be assessed based on, whether the financial framework of the reference value is equal to or higher than the value of the tendered contract.
The procurement documents contain a labor clause in accordance with Circular No. 9471 of June 30, 2014, on labor clauses in public contracts.
The evaluation of the sub-criterion is described in the procurement documents.
In accordance with the Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the following deadlines apply for filing a complaint: Complaints about not being prequalified must be submitted to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days. The deadline is calculated from the day following the day on which the contracting authority has sent a notification to interested candidate s about who has been prequalified, cf. the Public Procurement Act § 171, subsection 2, or the Complaints Board Act § 2, subsection 1, no. 1, when the notification is accompanied by a justification for the decision. In other situations, complaints about the procurement must be submitted to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union stating that a contract has been concluded. The deadline is calculated from the day after the notice was published.
At the same time as filing a complaint with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting authority in writing that a complaint has been filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, and whether the complaint has been submitted during the standstill period, cf. the Complaints Board Act § 6, subsection 4. If the complaint is not submitted during the standstill period, the complainant must also indicate whether a suspension of the decision is requested, cf. the Complaints Board Act § 12, subsection 1.
See section 2.1

Winner: Aarhus Kommune