Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-05-29
Buyer: Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation
Country: DK
Region: DK012
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72268000: Software supply services
Estimated value: 103000000 DKK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Copied from the Contract notice 2023/S 065-190137, section II.1.5):

This tender concerns
- a contract for the acquisition, implementation, transition and sustainment of a complete Vessel Traffic System 
(hereafter referred to as “The Solution”) for the Great Belt VTS
- a framework agreement for the delivery of associated services related to The Solution
The Solution shall enable the registration and management of data regarding ships entering and/or leaving the 
surveillance zones in the Great Belt VTS area.
The Solution shall replace an exisisting VTS client (hereafter referred to as “Sytar”).
The Solution shall be capable of continuously monitoring the two sectors in the Great Belt VTS area.
The Solution shall integrate to existing sensors including radars, radio direction finders (RDF), and network 
capability provided by DALO.
The Solution shall be prepared for integration to electrooptics.
The Solution shall include software and hardware.
Software includes a client that allows
- vessel navigators to submit expected transit requests (ETR) to the Great Belt VTS centre
- operators at the Great Belt VTS to monitor and guide vessel traffic
- management at the Great Belt VTS to report statistics and incident reports to national and inter-national 
authorities
Hardware includes
- servers for software operation
- VHF/DSC radios
- workstations
- monitors
- overview screens
- keyboards
- pointing tools
- printers
The supplier shall conduct planning and execution of a seamless transition of the Great Belt VTS operators 
from the Sytar system to The Solution. The supplier shall plan and carry out all necessary activities allowing the 
transition to be carried without disrupting continuous operations at the the Great Belt VTS.
The supplier shall secure the performance of The Solution, including response times, reliability, availability, 
maintainability and security of software and hardware.
The supplier shall therefore provide services for supporting the service levels required and specified in the 
contract.
The supplier shall provide associated services related to The Solution, including minor development, 
configuration, training, further licenses, establishment of new integrations, adjustment of existing integrations. 
Associated services shall be provided at the written request of DALO.
Subesquent to the implementation of The Solution, the supplier shall provide associated services for the support 
of fx
- physical relocation of the operations facilities
- replacement of sensors
- revisions of IALA and IMO standards
Price 50%

The Evaluation Price will be calculated as the estimated Life Cycle Costs (LCC) to the Danish Defence of acquiring and sustaining the Solution for a period of 16 years.
The LCC costs are:
A. Charges for the solution
B. Charges for support and maintenance services
C. Charges for operation
D. Charges for services payable on the basis of hourly rates (estimated amount of hours used in the contract period is 8.000 hours)
The percentages indicate the weighting of each sub-criterion in the evaluation of the offer. The partial criterion elements provided under each sub-criterion are weighted with the specified percentages.

Experienced Quality (20%)
Each offer will be graded for Experienced Quality based on the content of the video sequence provided cf. Sub-Appendix 3A Requirements Specification, section 2.2, requirement 2.

Future Proof Solution (20%)
Each offer will be graded for Future Proof Solution based on the provided documentation in Sub-Appendix 5a - Development plan for the Solution.

Project Quality (20%)
Each offer will be graded for Project Quality based on the provided documentation in “Appendix 1 - Time schedule”, “Appendix 10 - Project organisation”, “Sub-Appendix 14a - The Supplier's outline testing programme” and “Sub-Appendix 17a - The Supplier's outline Training and education programme”.

Delivery Time (40%)
Each offer will be graded for the Delivery Time partial criterion, based on the Acceptance Date stated in Appendix 1 of the Contract.
Pursuant to section 7(2) of the Danish Consolidation (Act no. 593 of 2 June 2016, as amended) on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the following time-limits for filing a complaint apply:

1) Forty-five calendar days after the contracting entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.

2) Thirty calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into if the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.

3) Six months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2), or section 171(4) of the Public Procurement Act.

The complainant must inform the contracting entity of the complaint in writing not later than simultaneously with the lodging of the complaint to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the standstill period, see section 3(1) or (2). In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1).

The Complaints Board for Public Procurement’s own guidance note concerning complaints is available on the Complaints Boards website.
Duration: 120 months

Number of possible renewals: 3x24 months

Total: 192 months


Winner: Kongsberg Norcontrol AS
Award value: 82044425
Number of bids: 9