Contract for delivery and implementation of an IT-system for plagiarism control, including operations and related services

Aarhus Universitet

Aarhus University wishes to sign a contract for delivery and implementation of an IT-system for plagiarism control.
The contract includes delivery and implementation of the IT-system for plagiarism control as well as IT operation services, including maintenance and support, of the IT-system.
The system shall be delivered as a service subject to the descriptions in the tender documents.
The ever-growing volume of electronic and readily available sources in databases and on the Internet makes it easier for students to plagiarise from other people's texts. For this reason, Aarhus University has in recent years increasingly focused on preventing cheating and plagiarism by using IT tools that screen exam papers against a broad range of digital sources and find overlaps between exam papers and sources on the Internet, publisher databases etc. by means of advanced algorithms.
Aarhus University wishes to offer study programmes at the highest academic level and to educate talented students whose diploma will serve as a guarantee to the labour market of well-educated and competent students.
The university must be able to vouch for the legitimacy of the diploma, as this is the university's guarantee that the student possesses the competences and qualifications stated in the diploma.
t is therefore crucial to Aarhus University that the diplomas it issues can be trusted.
To maintain a high level of education and the university's good reputation, Aarhus University wishes to screen all students' assignments to detect any plagiarism, and hereby tenders a contract for a plagiarism control system which is intended as a tool to detect cheating in written assignments.
The IT system for plagiarism control is to be widely used on all of Aarhus University's study programmes and must thus be able to accommodate academic differences and be integrated with several IT systems used at the university. The IT system for plagiarism control must also be able to be integrated with a number of databases, the content of which is expected to be used for the system's performance of the plagiarism check.
Aarhus University requires a stable system that will find overlaps with a wide range of sources using advanced algorithms.
A further description of scope and requirements follows in the tender documents.
This Tender comprises a contract, which contains elements of both a public contract as a framework agreement, as the contract comprises both Supplier's duty to supply the above specified services on the establishment and operation of the system for the handling of plagiarism control for Aarhus University, and it will contain an element of a framework agreement in connection with the university's opportunities for during the contract period to order any related consultancy services, alterations and further development of the system.

Deadline

Fristen for modtagelse af bud var på 2015-10-27. Indkøbet blev offentliggjort på 2015-09-17.

Hvem?

• Aarhus Universitet

Hvad?

Hvor?

• Danmark

Indkøbshistorik

Dato	Dokument
2015-09-17	Udbudsbekendtgørelse

Udbudsbekendtgørelse (2015-09-17)
Objekt
Omfanget af udbuddet
Titel: Databasesystemer
Bekendtgørelsens metadata
Originalsprog: engelsk 🗣️
Dokumenttype: Udbudsbekendtgørelse
Kontraktens art: Varer
Forordning: Den Europæiske Union, med deltagelse af GPA-lande
Fælles glossar for offentlige kontrakter (CPV)
Kode: Databasesystemer 📦

Procedure
Procedureform: Offentligt udbud
Bud-type: Indsendelse gældende for alle delaftaler
Kriterier for tildeling
Det økonomisk mest fordelagtige bud

Ordregivende myndighed
Identitet
Land: Danmark 🇩🇰
Type af ordregivende myndighed: Offentligretligt organ
Navn på ordregivende myndighed: Aarhus Universitet
Postadresse: Fuglesangs Allé 26
Postnummer: 8210
Postby: Aarhus V
Kontakt
Internetadresse: http://www.au.dk 🌏
E-mail: udbud@au.dk 📧
Telefon: +45 51335271 📞

Reference
Datoer
Afsendelsesdato: 2015-09-17 📅
Tilbudsfrist: 2015-10-27 📅
Offentliggørelsesdato: 2015-09-22 📅
Identifikatorer
Bekendtgørelsesnummer: 2015/S 183-331796
EUT-S-nummer: 183
Yderligere oplysninger

Please see the Tender Conditions on the webpage: www.au.dk/udbud The Tenderers must keep themselves up to date with any supplementary information published as answers to any questions or changes to the original Tender documentation. Such information will be made available at: www.au.dk/udbud

Objekt
Omfanget af udbuddet
Kort beskrivelse:

Aarhus University wishes to sign a contract for delivery and implementation of an IT-system for plagiarism control.

The contract includes delivery and implementation of the IT-system for plagiarism control as well as IT operation services, including maintenance and support, of the IT-system.

The system shall be delivered as a service subject to the descriptions in the tender documents.

The ever-growing volume of electronic and readily available sources in databases and on the Internet makes it easier for students to plagiarise from other people's texts. For this reason, Aarhus University has in recent years increasingly focused on preventing cheating and plagiarism by using IT tools that screen exam papers against a broad range of digital sources and find overlaps between exam papers and sources on the Internet, publisher databases etc. by means of advanced algorithms.

Aarhus University wishes to offer study programmes at the highest academic level and to educate talented students whose diploma will serve as a guarantee to the labour market of well-educated and competent students.

The university must be able to vouch for the legitimacy of the diploma, as this is the university's guarantee that the student possesses the competences and qualifications stated in the diploma.

t is therefore crucial to Aarhus University that the diplomas it issues can be trusted.

To maintain a high level of education and the university's good reputation, Aarhus University wishes to screen all students' assignments to detect any plagiarism, and hereby tenders a contract for a plagiarism control system which is intended as a tool to detect cheating in written assignments.

The IT system for plagiarism control is to be widely used on all of Aarhus University's study programmes and must thus be able to accommodate academic differences and be integrated with several IT systems used at the university. The IT system for plagiarism control must also be able to be integrated with a number of databases, the content of which is expected to be used for the system's performance of the plagiarism check.

Aarhus University requires a stable system that will find overlaps with a wide range of sources using advanced algorithms.

A further description of scope and requirements follows in the tender documents.

This Tender comprises a contract, which contains elements of both a public contract as a framework agreement, as the contract comprises both Supplier's duty to supply the above specified services on the establishment and operation of the system for the handling of plagiarism control for Aarhus University, and it will contain an element of a framework agreement in connection with the university's opportunities for during the contract period to order any related consultancy services, alterations and further development of the system.

Beskrivelse af mulighederne: 2 extensions of the contract term, by 1 year.
Antal mulige forlængelser: 2
Tidsramme for efterfølgende kontrakter: 12 måneder
Varighed: 24 måneder

Juridiske, økonomiske, finansielle og tekniske oplysninger
Betingelser for deltagelse
Egnethed til at udøve det erhverv:

1) Any Tenderer will be excluded from participation where the Tenderer has been the subject of a conviction by final judgment of for the reasons listed in the article 45, subsection 1, letter a) — d) in Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31.3.2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts.

As documentation the Tenderer must make a solemn declaration in order to prove that grounds for exclusion do not exist. The Tenderer is encouraged to use Template A to the Tender Documents to do so.

At the request of the Contracting Authority, the Tenderer who the Contracting Authority intends to contract with is obliged to provide further documentation that one or several of the aforesaid grounds for exclusion do not exist.

2) In pursuance of the Danish Consolidation Act on the Restriction of Debtor's options for participating in Public Procurement Procedures, the Tenderer must submit a solemn declaration stating whether the candidate has fulfilled his obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions and to the payment of direct and indirect taxes in accordance with the legal provisions in the country in which the Tenderer is established and in Denmark.

The Tenderer is encouraged to use the template A to these Tender Conditions.

The solemn declaration must not be dated earlier than 6 weeks before the deadline for submission of proposal.

As an alternative to a solemn declaration a report from the Danish Business Authority (in Danish:‘Erhvervsstyrelsen') may be submitted. Foreign Tenderers submitting an equal report from their country's corresponding authority should also submit a solemn declaration regarding obligations in Denmark.

3) If a request to participate is submitted from a group of candidates, each candidate must submit the abovementioned documentation.

Økonomisk og finansiel stilling:

1) Statement of the Tenderer's overall turnover for the last 3 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set-up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.

2) Statement of the Tenderer's equity ratio for the latest 3 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these equity ratios is available. The equity ratio must be calculated according to the following: Equity ratio = (total equity/total assets) x 100.

The Tenderer is encouraged to use Annex 1 to the Tender Conditions for the declaration of economic and financial ability.

The required information should be provided for each legal entity in a consortium or group of legal entities.

If the Tenderer is relying on other entities (e.g. subcontractors or entities within the same group, including parent companies, affiliates or subsidiaries), the Tenderer must demonstrate that the Tenderer can fully possess the resources needed to execute the contract pursuant to Public Procurement Directive Art. 47, paragraph. 2. This can be done by declaration or by presenting documentation of these entities agreeing to provide the necessary resources. If not presented, the contracting authority will not put emphasis on the other entities.

Teknisk og faglig kompetence:

1) A list of the Tenderer's customer references for previous deliveries of solutions corresponding and related to system encompassed by this tender, cf. section II.1.5, for the last 3 years available.

The list should include:

— Customer name (name of the contracting party).

— Date of commencement and expiry of each contract.

— A description of the deliverables, functionalities and service operations in relation to the description of the contract, cf. section II.1.5 above.

The Tenderer is encouraged to use Annex 1 to the Tender Conditions for the declaration of technical capacity.

The required information should be provided for each legal entity in a consortium or group of legal entities.

If the candidate is relying on the capacities of other entities (e.g. subcontractors or entities within the same group, including parent companies, affiliates or subsidiaries), the candidate must demonstrate that the candidate can fully possess the resources needed to execute the contract pursuant to Public Procurement Directive Art.48, paragraph. 3. This can be done by declaration or by presenting documentation of these entities agreeing to provide the necessary resources. If not presented, the contracting authority will not put emphasis on the other entities.

Kontraktens udførelse
Krav om deponering og sikkerhedsstillelse:

Terms and conditions concerning deposits and guarantees follow from the tender documents.

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

Terms and conditions concerning deposits and guarantees follow from the tender documents.

Den juridiske form, som den sammenslutning af økonomiske aktører, der skal have kontrakten, skal have:

No specific requirements, but if the contract is awarded to a consortium or group of legal entities, these are required to assume joint liability and appoint one legal entity able to act for the consortium or group.

Procedure
Tilbuddets gyldighedsperiode: 6 måneder
Sprog
Sprog: dansk 🗣️
engelsk 🗣️

Ordregivende myndighed
Kontakt
Enhed: Indkøbskontoret
Internetadresse: www.au.dk 🌏
URL til dokumenter: http://www.au.dk/udbud 🌏

Reference
Yderligere oplysninger

Please see the Tender Conditions on the webpage: www.au.dk/udbud

The Tenderers must keep themselves up to date with any supplementary information published as answers to any questions or changes to the original Tender documentation. Such information will be made available at: www.au.dk/udbud

Supplerende oplysninger
Gennemgå organ
Navn: Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for Udbud)
Postadresse: Dahlerups Pakhus, Langelinie Allé 17
Postby: Copenhagen OE
Postnummer: 2100
Land: Danmark 🇩🇰
Telefon: +45 5291000 📞
Internetadresse: http://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/klagenaevnet-for-udbud 🌏
: http://www.klfu.dk 🌏
Oplysninger om frister for klageprocedurer:

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Whereas a contracting authority has initiated an open procedure in accordance with directive 2004/18 EC, complaints regarding any part of the procurement process within the scope of directive 2004/18 EC, but not covered by the above paragraph, shall be filed to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 45 days from the day after the contracting authority has made a contract award notice public in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The complainant shall inform the contracting authority about the complaint at the latest when the complaint is filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement. In case the complaint concerns a decision regarding award of a contract the complainant shall inform the contracting authority whether the complaint is filed within the stand still period. If the complaint is not filed within the stand still period the complainant shall inform the contracting authority whether a suspension of the contract has been requested.

Tjeneste, hvorfra der kan indhentes oplysninger om klageproceduren
Navn: Danish Competition and consumer Authority
Postadresse: Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
Postby: Valby
Postnummer: 2500
Internetadresse: http://www.kfst.dk 🌏
Kilde: OJS 2015/S 183-331796 (2015-09-17)

Nye indkøb inden for beslægtede kategorier 🆕

Programpakker og informationssystemer (3 nye indkøb)

Database- og operativsystemprogrampakke

Databasesystemer