Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-08
Buyer: Danmarks Nationalbank
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72600000
Estimated value: 6245091 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Danmarks Nationalbank is the central bank of Denmark and is a self-governing, independent institution. Danmarks Nationalbank's 3 main objectives are to contribute to ensuring stable prices, safe payments and a stable financial system. In order to ensure these objectives, Danmarks Nationalbank is using the Calypso system front-to-back across assets as the portfolio management system, and as collateral management system for monetary policy loans. The continuous improvement of the system is handled internally.
As part of the continuous improvement of the Calypso system, configuration in the Calypso system is performed. The Customer is using Calypso version 14 and planning to upgrade to version 16. Documented knowledge on 1 of these versions is required.
An urgent service is required, and an re-opening of the competition will be initiated between the 3 suppliers immediately after signing of the Framework Agreement on the delivery of 2 Calypso Business Analysts preferable from mid February 2019 or soon thereafter. More information is described in the tender documents.
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Ud-bud 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), Para (1) 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 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 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.


Winner: First Derivatives Plc
Award value: 6245091
Number of bids: 7