Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-03-11
Buyer: A/S Storebælt
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 34927000 | 34970000 | 71334000 | 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services
Estimated value: 450560 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Change of Contract — Acquisition, Implementation and Maintenance of a Toll Collecting System at Great Belt Bridge
A/S Storebælt foresees a natural development of the contracted centralized back-end system to handle and interface with additional enforcement schemes parallel to the toll collection system at Storebælt. The purpose of the modification is to configure the existing software platform to interface with parallel ANPR enforcement systems. The modification includes additional licenses, equal to those already contracted, and configuration efforts delivered by the existing contract project team.
An voluntary ex-ante transparency notice was published in the supplement to the European Journal 19.2.2019.
The Contract has been marginally modified without a new procurement procedure in accordance with the Danish Public Procurement Act (Udbudsloven) Section 178.
1) The modification does not introduce conditions which would have provided access for other candidates than those originally selected or enabled acceptance of another tender than the tender originally accepted or would have attracted further participants to the procurement procedure;
2) The economic balance of the contract is not changed to the advantage of the supplier in a way which was not provided for by the original contract;
4) The modification does not replace the supplier to which the Contracting Authority had initially awarded the contract, and
The modification includes additional licenses, equal to those already contracted, and configuration efforts delivered by the existing contract project team. Unit pricing of the configuration effort is handled within the present contract scope. No new sub suppliers will be involved.
The modification will be delivered within the existing contract timeline by the same resources delivering the original contracted system.
There is no substantial change to the supplier’s obligations under the contract, however it is foreseen that the supplier will carry a minor increased risk due to additional interfaces to 3rd party systems.
The price of the modification is 450 560 EUR, therefore only 6 percent of the contract value, and is in general based on unit pricing from the contract.
Finally, it should be noted that even if the modification, despite the above assessment, were to be regarded as a material change, the modification could legally be agreed in accordance with Udbudsloven Section 181 since the modification:
3) Can’t be left to another supplier, without significant both economic and technical problems and inconvenience.
The modification is necessary in order for A/S Storebælt to fulfil obligations regarding additional enforcement schemes that where not foreseen at the time the contract was initially entered. There is significantly less cost of configuring the existing system, than buying a new system. It will be more technical and economic inconvenient to operate and maintain 1 system rather than 2, and for employees to work with 1 system rather than 2.
Complaint regarding A/S Storebælt's award of contract without prior publication of a Contract Notice in the European Union Official Journal must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days from the date after this contract award notice has been published by A/S Storebælt in the European Union Official Journal cf. the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement § 7, Section 3.


Winner: Q-Free Denmark ApS
Award value: 450560
Number of bids: 1