Sustainment Contract regarding services and supplies related to Armoured Personnel Carrier

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 10.7.2012.

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 (i.e. 3 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 nummer 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

The candidates shall demonstrate that they during the past 5 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 Sustainment Contract.

Kort beskrivelse

Forsvarsministeriet Materiel og Indkøbsstyrelsen (herefter "FMI") har indgået en kontrakt om anskaffelse og vedligehold af 309 pansrede mandskabsvogne til erstatning af Forsvarets eksisterende flåde. Kontrakten er tildelt General Dynamics European Land Systems - Mowag GmbH, jf. ordretildelingsbekendtgørelse nr. 2015/S 244-443533 vedrørende anskaffelseskontrakten og ordretildelingsbekendtgørelse nr. 2015/S 244-443532 vedrørende vedligeholdskontrakten. Nærværende bekendtgørelse med henblik på frivillig gennemsigtighed vedrører en anskaffelse under vedligeholdskontrakten.

Kort beskrivelse

Tildelingen af vedligeholdskontrakten, jf. afsnit II.1.4) er sket efter gennemført udbud med offentliggørelse af en udbudsbekendtgørelse. Denne bekendtgørelse med henblik på frivillig gennemsigtighed offentliggøres, da det er besluttet at anskaffe en række komponenter, som er omfattet af vedligeholdskontrakten, og til de vilkår, der er fastsat heri, til brug for Forsvarets ombygning af en række pansrede mandskabsvogne, som ikke er anskaffet under den til vedligeholdskontrakten hørende anskaffelseskontrakt med General Dynamics European Land Systems - Mowag GmbH, jf. afsnit II.1.4). Det er FMI's vurdering, at der ikke er tale om en ændring af et grundlæggende element i den udbudte kontrakt. Den angivne værdi i afsnit II.1.7) og V.2.4.) er værdien af de pågældende komponenter.