Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-03-31
Buyer: Femern A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72253100: System support services | 72261000: Software support services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72265000: Software configuration services
Estimated value: 4600000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Femern needs an IT solution for handling and management of the flow of BIM information between owner, contractors, consultants and other involved parties for the Femern Fixed Link (and potential other projects in the Sund & Belt Group).
Femern A/S (Femern) is part of Sund & Bælt Holding A/S, which is owned 100 pct. by the Danish Ministry of Transport, Building, and Housing. In April 2009, Femern A/S was established to conduct preparations, studies, design etc. in connection with the establishment of a fixed link across the Fehmarn Belt. In 2015, Femern A/S was authorized to establish and operate a fixed link across the Fehmarn Belt and to carry out the dispositions necessary for the implementation.
Femern needs an IT solution for handling and management of the flow of BIM information between Owner, Contractors, Consultants and other involved parties for the Femern Fixed Link (and potential other projects in the Sund & Belt Group). The solution shall support Single Point of Contact between the involved parties. The exchanged material will include 3D/BIM models, digital drawings and Office documents contained in design packages. Viewers and functionality for commenting BIM/CAD drawings shall be available. The System shall further support the Owner in coordinating and executing reviews of received material and the feedback to the Contractors, and other workflows. The System shall include an achieving function, tracking of versions and dependencies for the received material, and support integrations to other systems in the Owners organisation. The solution shall be based on a proven standard software.
The solution must be provided as a license to a standard software solution delivered as either a Software-as-a-Service or Hybrid Cloud solution. If the solution is delivered as a hybrid cloud solution Femern will provide the infrastructure on premise or in an Azure cloud solution.
The Supplier shall configure, implement and make the solution available for the customer as cloud or hybrid cloud solution.
The Supplier shall deliver continuing services, including maintenance of the solution, including fixes, security updates, new releases etc. The solution must be updated continuously with necessary optimizations and, the supplier is expected to perform support services.
The Supplier must deliver a number of services. Such services on demand cover e.g. employee training, re-configuration of the solution, integration services – e.g. integration with the Customer’s document management system (DMS) and other consultancy services related to the solution as further specified in the procurement documents. Furthermore, the number of licenses needed by the customer may vary, and the supplier must with due notice be able to adjust the solution and prices accordingly as specified in the procurement documents. Sund and Bælt Holding A/S and their present and future affiliated companies can purchase licenses under this contract.
The services under the contract are delivered to Sund and Bælt Holding A/S and their present and future affiliated companies cf. clause VI.3
The construction of the fixed link across the Fehmarn Belt receives EU funding from the CEF programme under project code 2014-EU-TM-0221-W.
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), 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 entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity 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 entity 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.


Winner: Thinkproject Benelux BV
Award value: 4600000
Number of bids: 3