Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-01-21
Buyer: via donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft mbH
Country: AT
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71621000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services

Technical requirements: Service Contract on Technical Assistance of the Evaluation of the Pilot Operation within FAIRway Danube
Subject of the planned tender is the award of a service contract for the technical assistance of the evaluation of the pilot operation within FAIRway Danube based on a detailed evaluation concept made available by the Participating Contracting Authorities. The prolongation in time and additional tasks will be an optional part of the procurement. Altogether, the contract is planned to last until the end of FAIRway Danube which may be extended until end of 2023 at the latest.
The tender will be an e-procurement procedure: all communication with bidders and all information and document exchange between the bidders and the awarding entity, in particular all questions and their answers by the awarding entity, shall only occur electronically via the tender platform https://gv.vergabeportal.at/ of ANKÖ. Use of the tender platform is mandatory and a participation in the tender without using the tender platform is not possible.
Subject of the planned tender is the award of a service contract for the technical assistance of the evaluation of the pilot operation within FAIRway Danube based on a detailed evaluation concept made available by the participating Contracting Authorities. The prolongation in time and additional tasks will be an optional part of the procurement. Altogether, the contract is planned to last until the end of FAIRway Danube which may be extended until end of 2023 at the latest.
The tender will be an e-procurement procedure: all communication with bidders and all information and document exchange between the bidders and the Awarding entity, in particular all questions and their answers by the awarding entity, shall only occur electronically via the tender platform https://gv.vergabeportal.at/ of ANKÖ. Use of the tender platform is mandatory and a participation in the tender without using the tender platform is not possible.
All relevant tender documents, such as cover letter, attachments, forms, proof of suitability, references, etc, shall be provided as digital documents for the download by the bidders and the upload of the participation request on the tender platform.
The submission of participation request is only possible electronically via said tender platform and the submission must be signed with an electronic signature. Participation requests submitted outside the tender platform shall not be admissible.
All required documents must – using the forms provided by the awarding entity – be uploaded via the tender platform and the participant must sign its participation request with a qualified electronic signature (scanned signatures do not fulfill or substitute this requirement.).
With the electronic signature the participant signs his participation request and accepts all provisions of this procurement procedure.
— an authorized representative of the participant or bidder already has a signature card and a card reader or a mobile signature via his mobile phone and can validly sign the participation request and submit it via the tender platform on behalf of the participant;
— if the participant does not yet have such possibilities, information on how to obtain a valid electronic signature can be found under http://www.a-trust.at:
The Bürgerkarten-Software required for electronic signing is available under http://www.buergerkarte.at.
— for foreign bidders that do not have access to an Austrian e-signature solution described above accepted by the tender platform, ANKÖ provides a signature service. The participant can in such case authorize a third party nominated by ANKÖ as its authorized representative solely for signature and submission of his (duly completed and up-loaded) participation request.
For all system related questions on the tender portal a free of charge support hotline is provided by ANKÖ:
All participants are strongly encouraged to acquaint themselves early on with the platform requirements and set up and ideally test with the help of the platform the functionality well before expiration of the submission deadline.