Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2025-07-02
Buyer: Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics
Country: DK
Region: DK012
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 32570000 | 35700000: Military electronic systems
Estimated value: 200000000 DKK

Technical requirements: The acquisition concerns the procurement of systems intended to support a military build-up and significantly enhance battlefield awareness for the Royal Danish Navy and the Danish Defence. It also aims to ensure that Denmark can continue to participate in coordinated NATO operations through Link capabilities.

The new Multi-Link System (MLS) will support tactical information exchange via the Multi-Function Information Distribution System (MIDS)/Link 16, Link 22, and the Joint Range Extension Application Protocol (JREAP)-C/Link 16.

The most essential feature of the new MLS is to provide the Royal Danish Navy with Link 16, JREAP-C, and Link 22 capabilities, thereby enabling cooperation both within the Royal Danish Navy and with coalition partners. These capabilities will support communication in both Line of Sight and Beyond Line of Sight scenarios.

Furthermore, current operational requirements necessitate achieving a limited level of interoperability with national and coalition forces as a matter of urgency, ahead of full MLS integration, hence only suppliers which previous have delivered link22 to other comparable navies have been preferred. 

The MLS will be installed on 12 ships over the duration of the contract, which is expected to run for 30 years.

To safeguard Denmark’s essential security interests, the procedure has been conducted pursuant to Article 346(1)(b) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and is therefore exempt from the general EU public procurement rules.

Based on the above, the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) intends to conclude a contract with Tecnobit for the acquisition of the Multi-Link Processor (MLP), including support for sustainment and training.
DALO follows the procedure set out in Section 4 of the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Act No. 492 of 12 May 2010, as amended). The agreement will not be concluded before the expiry of 10 calendar days, calculated from the day after the date on which this notice is published, cf. Section 4(1)(2) of the said Act.

Pursuant to Section 7(3) of the Act, a complaint alleging that the contracting authority has entered into an agreement in violation of the procurement rules without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union must, in cases where the contracting authority has followed the procedure in Section 4, be submitted to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 30 calendar days from the day after the date on which the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, provided that the notice includes the justification for the contracting authority’s decision to award the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union.

At the latest simultaneously with the submission of a complaint to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting authority in writing that a complaint has been submitted, and whether the complaint has been submitted within the 10-calendar-day period laid down in Section 4(1)(2) of the Act. In cases where the complaint is not submitted within that period, the complainant must also indicate whether a request for suspension of the procurement procedure is made, cf. Section 12(1) of the Act.

The Complaints Board for Public Procurement’s guidance on submitting complaints is available on the Board’s website.
The contract includes a contract for the acquisition of 13 Multi Link Processors (MLP) and a framework agreement for the sustainment of the Multi Link Processor (MLP). The contract will remain in force until all deliveries have been completed. The framework agreement has an initial term of 20 years and may be extended twice, each time for a period of 5 years.


Winner: Tecnobit
Award value: 14016000