Acquisition of Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC)

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The contract regards the delivery of 360 APCs together with related equipment and services as described under II.1.5. However, the exact number of APCs to be delivered can vary - depending on DALO's use of positive and negative options - from a minimum of 206 up to a maximum of 450 APCs.

Yderligere oplysninger

Information meeting regarding pre-qualification.

DALO invites all candidates to attend a presentation meeting at DALO's premises in week 24, 2012. If interested in participating in the meeting, the candidates shall submit a request pr. e-mail to APC-R@mil.dk no later than 4.6.2012. Each candidate will be assigned a specific meeting time for the presentation and this will be submitted to the candidate pr. e-mail. Thus, the candidate should make sure when requesting to participate in the meeting to provide DALO with an e-mail address that this information can be sent to.

The meeting will last for approximately 1 hour and in the meeting, DALO will go through the pre-qualification criteria and answer any questions asked by the candidates. Anonymised questions/answers concerning the pre-qualification criteria and documents to be submitted that DALO thinks is of importance to all candidates will be e-mailed to all the candidates.

Testing of test-vehicle.

As part of the tender procedure and prior to awarding the contract, tests will be conducted on a test-vehicle to verify that the equipment included in the tenderers’ offer complies with the demands of DALO provided that the indicative offer fulfills the mandatory requirements. Furthermore, the evaluation of the offers will be based partly on the tests. In order for a submitted APC to be characterised as a "test-vehicle", the APC must - as a minimum - be based on the same hull structure, have the same driveline and the same undercarriage as the APC offered to DALO.

The tests are scheduled to take place primarily at Oksbøl in Denmark from either January 2013 or March 2013 depending on the number of candidates for test and will require each tenderer to supply one APC (infantry configuration) to DALO no later than week 3 / week 12, 2013. The tests are expected to have a duration of approx. 3-4 months. All tenderers should therefore make the necessary preparations and be aware of any export restrictions being applied in their home countries and take the necessary steps to obtain the requisite permits in time in order for the test vehicle to be in Oksbøl in week 3 / week 12, 2013. The exact time for the tests will be stated in the tender documents 10 July 2012.

Negotiations.

Negotiations will be focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the submitted tenders and will be based on the contract award criteria as well as possible reservations to the terms of the tender.

DALO reserves the right to - based on the award criteria - shortlist the candidates after the evaluation of the indicative offers (i.e. to reduce the number of candidates per lot with 1 - 2 tenderer(s) even if the tenderer(s) in question fulfils the minimum requirements). No more than 6 tenderes will be asked to participate in the tests. It does not have to be three from each lot (ie. three wheelbased and three tracked). It can for instance also be two tracked APCs and up to four wheelbased APCs.

After having conducted the negotiations, a revised set of tender documents may be submitted based on the experiences from the negotiations. Hereafter, the candidates are requested to make any alteration (if any) to the indicative offer necessitated by the negotiations and to submit either af new indicative offer that leads to further negotiations or a best and final offer (BAFO).

After receipt of the BAFO, DALO will evaluate all the best and final offers in order to identify the most economically advantageous offer, using the award criteria as further described in the tender conditions.

Re. section III.2).

A candidate may rely on the economic, financial and/or technical capacity of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links with the entities. If a candidate relies on other entities the candidate must prove to the contracting authority the disposal of the resources necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an undertaking on the part of those entities to that effect.

A candidate may, for example, rely on other entities' economic capacity, cf. clause 41(2) in Directive 2009/81/EC. If so, the candidate must provide documentation that the other entities will and shall put the relevant economic resources at the disposal of the candidate. Furthermore the candidate must provide the same type of information regarding the other entities' economic capacity as the candidate shall submit of his own economic capacity.

Re. section IV.1.2).

Should any of the prequalified candidates choose not to submit the first indicative offer and thereby leaving DALO with a very limited number of offers to evaluate, DALO reserves the right to postpone the evaluation procedure and reopen the prequalification round in order to invite one or more of the rejected candidates (depending on how many candidates that chose not to submit an indicative offer) to join the tender procedure.

Re. section IV 3.4).

Each candidate may only submit one application per lot. The application should preferably be submitted in 3 paper copies and 1 electronic copy on a CD-ROM or an equivalent medium.

The application should preferably be marked "Armoured Personnel Carriers – Confidential, att.: Lt. Col. Karsten Kolding – må ikke åbnes ved intern postfordeling". The application must be delivered in a sealed envelope to the address stated in section I.1 and may not be forwarded by e-mail.

Furthermore the candidate is requested to submit an e-mail address of a contact person to which relevant information may be forwarded.

Mindstekrav til niveauet

Candidates shall be able to demonstrate by reference to the three latest published annual audited financial statements to have (1) a solvency ratio of at least 20 percent - calculated by dividing the economic operator's equity with the economic operator's total assets (equity/total assets x 100) - in each year and (2) an annual turnover of at least 500 000 000 DKK (in writing five hundred million Danish Kroner) (if applicable, based on the official exchange rate of the Danish National Bank as per 1.5.2012) in each year.

Mindstekrav til niveauet

The candidates shall demonstrate that they during the past five years have had experience with (1) delivery of armoured vehicles based on either tracks or wheels and (2) provision of spares and services as part of a sustainment arrangement concerning the above mentioned vehicles.

De vigtigste finansieringsbetingelser og betalingsordninger og/eller henvisning til de relevante bestemmelser, der regulerer dem

Reference is made to the tender documents with regard to the payment terms. Invoicing must be done in accordance with the at any time applicable Danish legislation on public payments. At present this is the Danish consolidation act. no. 798 of June 2007 which demands that invoicing must be done electronically. Exact terms will be stated in the Acquisition Contract.

Kort beskrivelse

DALO has entered into a contract regarding the acquisition and sustainment of 309 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) for replacement of the existing fleet for the entire Danish Army. The contract has been awarded to General Dynamics European Land Systems — Mowag GmbH, cf. contract award notice 2015/S 244-443533 concerning the acquisition contract and contract award notice 2015/S 244-443532 concerning the sustainment contract.

Kort beskrivelse

The award of the contract has been subject to prior publication of a Contract Notice in the OJEU/TED, and a full procurement process has been conducted. This voluntary ex ante transparency notice is published since it has been decided to replace the engine of the Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) with a different engine compared to the engine offered in the winning tender. The change of the engine will not lead to increased costs for DALO and it is expected that the replacement will entail a slightly lower cost. The offered APC has undergone renewed testing with the new engine to validate fulfilment of all requirements of the tender, which was achieved. The change will have no consequence for the time schedule for delivery of the APCs. It is DALO's assessment that the change of the engine does not constitute a material change of the contract and hence, that the change can be performed within the limits of the conducted tender process.