Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-06-05
Buyer: The University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 45212000: Construction work for leisure buildings | 45212300 | 45212310
Estimated value: 84558669 DKK
Submission deadline: 2026-10-23
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The procurement procedure was carried out as a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition pursuant to section 61-66 of the Danish Public Procurement Act. 

The procurement procedure was carried out in two phases: 
• The prequalification phase
• The tender and negotiation phase 

Only candidates who have were selected by the NHMD during the prequalification phase was invited to submit an initial tender in the tender and negotiation phase. 

The NHMD selected five candidates and invited them to participate in the tender and negotiation phase. 

As expected, the NHMD conducted one round of negotiations with the tenderers. 

The NHMD awarded the contract to the most economically advantageous tender based on the criteria ‘best price-quality ratio’.

The NHMD invites all tenderers to a site visit at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, cf. section 5.3 of the tender conditions. 

Candidates/tenderers who were subject to one or more of the grounds for exclusion in sections 134(a) and 135-136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act were excluded from participating in the procurement procedureare. Furthermore, candidates/tenderers were excluded from participating in the procurement procedure if the candidate/tenderer (including other participants in an association, consortium or similar) is covered by article 5k of Regulation (EU) No 833/2014.

The NHMD requested documentation regarding the information provided in the ESPD in connection with the invitation to submit initial tenders. 

The NHMD did not remunerate candidates or tenderers for their participation in the procurement procedure.
The procurement procedure regarded a contract for P3 -  Main Exhibition Contractor for the new Museum Galleries at the Natural History Museum of Denmark ("NHMD"). 

The contract concerns the design, production, engineering and on-site installation of setwork (including scenography), furniture, graphic detailing, graphic production (for non-showcases), setwork lighting, tactile interactives, mounts (not in showcases) to the Ocean Hall and the Underground Galleries. In addition, the main exhibition contractor will be the main responsible for coordination with other specialist contractors, e.g. the contractors responsible for delivering specialist setworks, media content and AV Hardware to the NHMD.
The evaluation of the sub-criterion “Price” was conducted in accordance with section 1.4 of Annex I - The Evaluation Model.
The evaluation of the ‘Organisation’ sub-criterion was conducted in accordance with section 1.5.2 of Annex I - The Evaluation Model.

Only tenders which were awarded a score of at least 5 points for the “Organisation” sub-criterion were eligible to be awarded the contract.
The evaluation of the ‘Project Execution and Technical Solution’ sub-criterion was conducted in accordance with section 1.5.3 of Annex I - The Evaluation Model.  

Only tenders which were awarded a score of at least 5 points for the “Project Execution and Technical Solution” sub-criterion were eligible to be awarded the contract.


Winner: Bruns B.V.
Award value: 84558669
Number of bids: 4