Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-10
Buyer: Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics FOBL
Country: CH
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48100000 | 48320000 | 48321000 | 72000000
Submission deadline: 2018-08-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The requesting office opens a public tender to procure a 3D geological modelling software (the software). The software must be a commercial “ready-to-run” solution. Cloud-based solutions, software-as-a-service solutions, a specific development for the requesting office and frameworks of individual, but interdependent software packages will not be taken into account.
The verification of competences must be submitted absolutely complete and without restriction or modification in writing. If not complete, the tender offer will not be evaluated.
Certificate of registration/commercial register, certificate of enforcement register (not older than 3 months at the time being asked by the requesting office). Non-Swiss tenderers: Similar and up-to-date, official certificate. These certificates must be handed in on invitation, after the submission of the tenderer and prior the award.
a) The Tenderer confirms that he himself as well as any subcontractors are compliance with the procedural principles in accordance with the self-declaration form of the Federal procurement conference FPC.
b) In addition to the self-declaration form, the Tenderer with more than 50 employees and their direct subcontractors with more than 50 employees have to provide evidence of how the wage practice was checked.
c) The company has not been in the past ten years in breach of any regulatory, tax or other government requirements;
The Tenderer has specific experience in the field of software development for geological purposes, software consulting, and solution development. The Tenderer is experienced in projects, which are comparable to the present call in terms of content and complexity. He proofs its experience based on 5 successful references not older than 5 years (relative to the submission deadline).
A reference is considered as successful, if the software provided is in operation at other clients in a similar environment and if the general development path of the software (e.g. functionalities through time) is proven.
The Tenderer confirms that the services and work requested by Swisstopo are granted either at any time during the duration of the contract (for functional support, technical support, maintenance; see description of Basic Services for support and maintenance in main document, chapter 4) or at mutually defined time periods (for optional services: training, consulting; for optional work: software development).
The Tenderer has a single point of contact (SPOC) who is responsible for the escalation of problems concerning the contract and can make decisions.
a) can contact its team during the weekly business hours defined in the maintenance agreement (minimum requirements in chapter 4) through a normal (e.g. non-business, toll-free) telephone number (land line); and
b) speak immediately in English or in one of the business languages defined with a qualified employee on the services being delivered;
c) additionally, the Tenderer confirms to set up a “Skype for Business account” into operation to be used in any web conference.
a) The development of 3D geological modelling software is the only one or one of the main branches of the Tenderer;