Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: GÉANT Vereniging
Country: NL
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 32420000 | 32500000 | 32570000 | 32580000 | 51611100
Submission deadline: 2019-05-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: GÉANT’s objective in launching this competitive tender exercise, is to establish 1 or more Framework Agreements, for use by GÉANT and its NREN shareholders, in order to be able to source a range of Optical Transmission Equipment (OTE), installation and support thereof.
This procurement exercise will establish a series of EC compliant Framework Agreements for the supply and support of Optical Transmission Equipment (OTE) for the Research and Education Sector in continental Europe. This entails the establishment of flexible contractual vehicles for the supply, support, delivery, installation and commissioning of OTE that is suitable for deployment in research and education networks such as GÉANT and its member NREN networks.
(a) the establishment of up to 6 Framework Agreements for the supply and support of optical transmission equipment, as described above, to be used by the R&E community, with projected overall values expected to be up to 100 000 000 EUR over the term of the resultant frameworks;
(b) identification of the most economically advantageous tender in respect of the new GÉANT network requirements (for the first series of call-off contracts).
GÉANT's requirements shall be used to test the technical suitability as well as the price competitiveness of the various bidders.
GÉANT intends to structure the frameworks so as to permit call-off contracts to be awarded to suppliers appointed to the frameworks, either by way of direct award without reopening competition or by reopening competition with appointed suppliers.
Generally, GÉANT and participating NRENs would expect to use the direct award procedure (except where the criteria for reopening competition may apply).
For the purpose of direct award, the framework will set out all the terms governing the supply of the equipment in question (including pricing and any discounting arrangements) and the objective criteria for selecting which of the appointed suppliers will be invited to meet particular requirements as outlined below.
— call-off contracts for spare parts or additional components required for increased scale or performance,
— where new technologies, within the scope of the framework and contract notice, come to market during the term of the framework and are likely to be available from framework suppliers,
— observed market pricing for equipment within the scope of the framework and Contract Notice suggests that lower costs could be achieved by reopening competition taking into account the predetermined price index specified in the Framework Agreement,
— technical issues e.g. a need to compare the costs and capabilities of different network management solutions,
GÉANT is acting as a CPB and the NRENs listed in the tender documents will be eligible to use the resultant Frameworks for the purchase and associated support of all types of OTE.
The capital purchase of optical transmission equipment for a production research data network at the scale of GÉANT (continental Europe with onward global links) means the decommissioning of end of life equipment, combined with the supply, installation and commissioning of incoming equipment will take at least 2 - 3 years. Thereafter, the ROI period for the equipment is at least 8 years.
GÉANT Vereniging are acting as CPB on behalf of the National Research and Education Networking organisations listed below. More information about these organisations can be found at https://www.geant.org/About/Membership/Pages/MAandGAreps.aspx and in Volume 0 of the ITT.