Objektive kriterier for udvælgelse af det begrænsede antal ansøgere
For the purpose of achieving the best possible competition, DALO will choose a number of candidates for participation in the tender procedure based on the candidate’s size in accordance with the Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (2003/361/EC); hereinafter the SME Recommendation. Thus, it is DALO’s intention to choose:
— 3 candidates which are micro or small enterprises (group 1),
— 2 candidates which are medium-sized or large enterprises (group 2).
The number of candidates assigned to each group is based on a market survey that DALO has conducted.
If DALO receives fewer applications for participation within a group than the number of candidates DALO has assigned to that particular group, DALO will not invite additional candidates from the other group.
However, DALO will deviate from this rule if this is necessary to be able to invite three candidates to the tender procedure. In this case, DALO will apply the principles for limitation of candidates as described below within each group and then by priority choose a number of the remaining candidates from group 1 and group 2 until a total of three candidates are invited to participate. For illustration purposes see example hereof in the ‘additional information’ document available on the ETHICS-webportal, cf. section I.3).
The determination of which category of enterprise a candidate is defined as must be made in accordance with the SME Recommendation. For further information on this, including information about entities that candidates are relying on, see the ‘additional information’ document available on the ETHICS-webportal, cf. section I.3)
The candidate must in the ESPD, Part V: Reduction of the number of qualified candidates, state in the textbox for further information, which group of enterprise the candidate is defined as. Furthermore, the candidate should in the textbox submit the most relevant information for determining which category of enterprise the candidate is defined as. As a minimum, the following data should be stated: staff headcount, annual turnover and balance sheet. If the candidate is relying on other entities, cf. above, these entities must also submit an ESPD. However, they shall not provide information about which group of enterprise the entity is, staff headcount, annual turnover or balance sheet, since this information is already included in the determination of which group of enterprise the candidate is defined as, cf. the ‘additional information’ document available on the ETHICS-webportal, cf. section I.3).
The candidate must on DALO’s request provide documentation establishing that the candidate at the time of application for participation was defined as the specific category of enterprise. Documentation may be annual reports or excerpts thereof, an auditor’s statement or equivalent forms of documentation.
The limitation of candidates within each group of enterprises will be based on an evaluation of which candidates have documented the most relevant previous deliveries in comparison to the contract/purchases described in section II.1.4) above. In the evaluation of the candidates the following it is weighted positive:
— documented previous deliveries of software for X-ray scanning systems;
— documented previous deliveries of automatic feeding systems of samples to X-ray scanners;
— documented previous deliveries of X-ray scanners that can scan samples with variant densities;
— DALO will deem deliveries that have been carried out more recently more relevant than older deliveries.
The evaluation will be based on the list submitted by the candidates in the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) according to section III.1.3). Please note that any ambiguities and/or incomprehensibilities in the information submitted may be regarded negatively in the evaluation when selecting the limited numbers of candidates.