Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-03-07
Buyer: Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation
Country: DK
Region: DK012
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 60400000: Air transport services | 60420000: Non-scheduled air transport services | 60423000 | 60424000 | 60424100
Estimated value: 40000000 EUR
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: As part of its offer, the tenderer must submit the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD). Please note that a tenderer may rely on the capacity of other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor), irrespective of the legal nature of the relations between the tenderer and the entity or entities on which the tenderer relies. In this case, the tenderer must ensure that an ESPD from the entity or entities on which the tenderer relies is submitted along with the tenderer’s own ESPD. The ESPD of the entity or entities in question must include equivalent information. A tenderer may only submit one offer. The tenderer and, if relevant, the participants in the group of entities and/or entities on which the tenderer relies, must use the ESPD, see section 148 of the Danish Public Procurement Act, as preliminary evidence that the participants are not subject to any of the mandatory exclusion grounds set out in sections 135 and 136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act, or the exclusion grounds set out in section 137(1), para (2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act, and that the tenderer fulfils the suitability requirements. It is not necessary for the tenderer to sign the ESPD document. If the tenderer is a group of entities (consortiums), the participants not submitting the offer must sign their ESPD document. Any entities relied on must also sign the ESPD. If a tenderer relies on the capacity of other entities, see the section “Economic and Financial Standing”, the candidate shall upon request provide statements of support or other documentation proving that the candidate has access to the necessary economic and financial standing and/or technical and professional capacity, and that the entity referred to has a legal obligation to the candidate. If such documentation is not provided, DALO cannot take into account the economic and financial standing and/or the technical and professional capacity of such entity or entities. DALO has prepared a template (available in the electronic tender system) to be used to confirm the legal obligation.
The purpose of the tendered contract is to facilitate full-service aircraft charter for State transportation for the Danish Government. The Danish Government frequently travels between Copenhagen and European cities and less frequently Trans-Atlantic, to the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The passengers will include Very Important Persons such as but not limited to the Prime minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defence and accompanying officials and press. The concept under the tendered contract is that the supplier shall deliver two dedicated aircraft (i.e., two specific and stated aircraft registration numbers) for the duration of the contract. The supplier shall continuously be able to deliver one of these dedicated aircraft, ready for boarding, at Copenhagen Airport (CPH) within 72 hours of notification. The reason for requiring the delivery of two dedicated aircraft is to account for both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. Thus, with this arrangement, the supplier shall always have one dedicated aircraft ready within 72 hours of notification for the Danish Government. The supplier shall provide full-service aircraft charter for 480 hours on a 12-month basis.
The place of performance is Copenhagen Airport, see address above.
Pursuant to the Danish Consolidation (Act no. 593 of 2 June 2016, as amended) on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the following time-limits for filing a complaint apply: 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 an agreement. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published. 2) Thirty calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that an agreement based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into if the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision. 3) Six months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2). The complainant must inform the contracting entity of the complaint in writing not later than simultaneously with the lodging of the complaint to The Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement. If the complaint has not been lodged in the standstill period, the complainant must also state whether it is requested that the appeal be granted suspensory effect, see section 12(1). The Complaints Board for Public Procurement’s own guidance note concerning complaints is available on the Complaints Boards website.
The duration of the Contract is 4 years. DALO is entitled to extend the Contract with 2 x 1 year. Hence, if DALO extends the Contract, the total duration of the Contract will be 6 years.


Winner: Mercell Holding ASA
Number of bids: 6