Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-02-14
Buyer: NORDUnet
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Other multiple
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30100000 | 30200000 | 30210000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 35000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-03-18
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Is the economic operator in in any analogous situation like bankruptcy arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Is the economic operator bankrupt? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for corruption, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 3 of the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union, OJ C 195, 25.6.1997, p. 1, and in Article 2(1) of Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (OJ L 192, 31.7.2003, p. 54). This exclusion ground also includes corruption as defined in the national law of the contracting authority (contracting entity) or the economic operator.
Is the economic operator in arrangement with creditors? This information needs not be given if exclusion of economic operators in this case has been made mandatory under the applicable national law without any possibility of derogation where the economic operator is nevertheless able to perform the contract.
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for participation in a criminal organisation, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA of 24 October 2008 on the fight against organised crime (OJ L 300, 11.11.2008, p. 42).

Eligibility requirements: The economic operator must have a “Specific Average turnover” of at least EUR 10,000,000.
“Specific Average turnover” must be submitted for each of previous the two (2) years for concluded fiscal years at the time of the Tender response deadline.
“Specific Average turnover” means the specific part of the turnover that in some way is related to the business area covered by this DPS.
The economic operator must provide Two(2) references from similar type of deliveries within the European Economic Area, and preferable within the target area of the delivery inside the Nordic region.

The two references must relate to new customer deliveries, preferable within the previous three years.

The references must include the official name of the customer, at least one contact point for the customer including direct phone number and e-mail.

The economic operator must state the date of delivery to the customer and the Equipment delivered.

The economic operator must describe the relevant quantitative volume of the individual references. The quantitative volume is defined as the number of Servers and their specifications.
The actual weights of each sub-criteria and part-criteria are decided by the Contracting Authority for that specific Competition and will be contained in ITT of each specific Competition.
The Contracting Authority will identify the economically most advantageous Tender on the basis of the best price-quality ratio. The sub-criterion "Total Cost of Ownership (Price)" can be weighted between 40-70 %. The actual weights of each sub-criteria and part-criteria are decided by the Contracting Authority for that specific Competition and will be contained in the ITT of each specific Competition.
The Contracting Authority will identify the economically most advantageous Tender on the basis of the best price-quality ratio. The sub-criterion "Supply (Quality)" can be weighted between 30-60 %. The actual weights of each sub-criteria and part-criteria are decided by the Contracting Authority for that specific Competition and will be contained in the ITT of each specific Competition.
Scope of category 1: IP Equipment Supply:
• Standard rack mountable.
• Redundant power supplies (a/b power).
• Support for multiple physical interface form factor. 
• VLAN-bridging, q-in-q vlan tagging. 
• Support for Jumbo Frames.
• NORDUnet and the NREN’s use network automation and an internally developed network device controller, therefore the ip equipment must support the Yang model and Netconf.
• Support for: IP-V4, IP-V6 and Multicast.
• Support for Control Plane protection mechanisms.
• Support for SSH-v2 and SNMP.
• Should support multiple routing protocols and features.

Commercial:
• Should support pay as you grow model(s), license based or similar.
The economic operator must have a “Specific Average turnover” of at least EUR 5,000,000.
“Specific Average turnover” must be submitted for each of previous the two (2) years for concluded fiscal years at the time of the Tender response deadline.
“Specific Average turnover” means the specific part of the turnover that in some way is related to the business area covered by this DPS.

Winner: Mercell Holding ASA