Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-02-08
Buyer: The Danish Housing and Planning Authority
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 39162110 | 48190000 | 71315100 | 71315200 | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Estimated value: 5200000 DKK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract regarding services related to knowledge capacity-building activities regarding reuse of construction materials
The Danish Housing and Planning Authority, acting as the Secretariat of the program Nordic Sustainable Construction, wishes to procure services related to establishing of capability regarding reuse of construction materials targeted to the students at vocational educational institutions in the Nordic countries. The objective of the task is ultimately to increase the reuse of construction materials in the Nordic construction industry by equipping students at the vocational educational institutions across the Nordic countries with hands-on knowledge about reuse of construction materials by providing their teachers with inspirational teaching material and tools. The Contract shall be performed by the end of 2024. For further information see section II.2.4.
The Danish Housing and Planning Authority, acting as the Secretariat of the program Nordic Sustainable Construction, wishes to procure services related to establishing of capability regarding reuse of construction materials targeted to the students at vocational educational institutions in the Nordic countries. The Nordic countries in the tendered contract refer to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and can furthermore, at the Supplier’s discretion, include Greenland, Faeroe Islands and Åland.
The services shall be performed in following sequential phases: Phase 1: Mapping of teaching materials regarding reuse, capabilities, and mapping of relevant legislation in the Nordic countries; Phase 2: Development of supplementary teaching material in cooperation with at least one vocational educational institution; Phase 3: Dissemination of the developed material; and Phase 4: Evaluation and provision of recommendations for follow-up activities.
This procurement is a part of the program Nordic Sustainable Construction, funded by Nordic Innovation. The program is initiated by the Nordic Ministers for Construction and Housing and runs from 2021-2024. Therefore, the tendered contract shall be performed by the end of 2024.
The tendered contract has not been divided into lots, cf. section 49 (2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act, as the contract is not considered suitable for division. The contract covers performance of one specific task, for which one contractor shall retain the full resposibility, and which is to be delivered in interdependent phases at a fixed and firm price set by the contracting authority.
Contract regarding services related to knowledge capacity-building activities regarding reuse of construction materials
In addition to the mandatory grounds for exclusion set out in sections 135 and 136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act, the following voluntary ground for exclusion applies in connection with this tender: The Danish Public Procurement Act, section 137(1)  For the final and full wording of the before-mentioned provisions, cf. the provisions of the Danish Public Procurement Act. The contracting authority shall furthermore in accordance with section 134 a of the Danish Public Procurement Act exclude economic operators established in a country stated on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, and which is not a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement or any other for Denmark binding free-trade agreements. The contracting authority shall also exclude any economic operators, which are subject to EU sanctions in accordance with EU regulation 833/2014 with later amendments, Article 5k.
The tenderer must complete and submit the ESPD as preliminary proof of compliance with the requirements set out in section 148(1)(i)-(iii) of the Danish Public Procurement Act. Prior to award decision, the winning tenderer shall also present documentation for not being subject to EU sanctions against Russia in accordance with EU regulation 833/2014. Further infomation about documentation is described i section 7.1 of the tender conditions.
No remuneration, fee or similar charge is payable for participation in the tender. This also applies in the event that the contracting authority decides to cancel the tender without awarding any contract.
Pursuant to Consolidated Act no. 593 of 2 June 2016 on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement as amended, the following time limits apply to the filing of requests for a review procedure: Complaints about procurement procedures or decisions falling within Part II of the Danish Public Procurement Act which are not covered by subsection 1 of the Act, must, according to section 7(2) of the Act, be filed with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement within:
(1) 45 calendar days of the contracting authority having published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union to the effect that the contracting authority has entered into a contract. The time limit is calculated from the date after the date when the notice was published; (2) 30 calendar days, calculated from the date after the date when the contracting authority notified the affected tenderers that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into, if the notification contained a statement of the reasons for the decision.
(3) 6 months of the contracting authority having entered into a framework agreement, counted from the date after the date when the contracting authority notified the affected candidates and tenderers, cf.see section 2(2) of the Act, or section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
(4) 20 calendar days calculated from the date after the contracting authority has announced its decision, cf. section 185(2), second sentence, of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
If a contracting authority has complied with the procedure outlined in section 4 of the Act to ensure that a contract is not declared void, cf. section 7(3) of the Act, an application for a review of whether the contracting authority has entered into a contract in contravention of the Public Procurement Directive without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union must be filed with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 30 calendar days calculated from the date after the date when the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union stating that the contracting authority has entered into a contract, provided that the notice contains the reasons 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. Not later than on the date of the filing of an application for a review procedure with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the applicant must notify the contracting authority in writing that an application for a review procedure has been filed with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, cf. section 6 (4) of the Act. Furthermore, the contracting authority must be informed of whether the application for a review procedure has been filed in the stand-still period, cf. section 3 (1) or (2) of the Act, or during the period of 10 calendar days laid down in section 4 (1) (ii). In cases where the application for a review procedure has not been filed in the above-mentioned periods, the applicant must also state whether the applicant has applied for a stay pending the outcome of the review procedure, cf. section 12(1) of the Act.


Winner: Norion Consult ApS
Award value: 5200000
Number of bids: 3