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All Terrain Vehicles and Utility Terrain Vehicles.

This tender procedure concerns the award of a Framework Agreement for the procurement of All Terrain Vehicles and Trailers (ATV) and Utility Terrain Vehicles and Trailers (UTV) including service, spare parts, pick up and return of the Vehicles and Trailers, modification of the Vehicles and Trailers and training in maintenance and use of the Vehicles and Trailers.

The Vehicles and Trailers are inserted in theatres in various environments nationally and across the globe. The Vehicles are used for various assignments such as patrolling, reconnaissance, direct action, light line purposes at airfields, equipment transport and travels between various establishments. The Vehicles and Trailers will have multiple users but will be assigned to specific units / personnel.

DALO has decided not to divide the contract into lots due to the fact that the tender is limited in the scope of goods and/or services and further subdivision into lots is not relevant.

The Agreement is entered into by DALO. All divisions of the Danish Ministry of Defence, including all divisions of the Danish Defence subject to the command of the Chief of Defence is entitled to use the Agreement.

All Terrain Vehicles and Utility Terrain Vehicles

In accordance with the Danish Act on Public Procurement (act No 1564 of 15.12.2015 — available at www.retsinformation.dk) § 148 DALO must demand that the tenderer completes the European Single Procurement Document as preliminary evidence in replacement of certificates issued by public authorities or third parties confirming that the tenderer fulfils the requirements listed in § 148(1) of the said Act. Reference is made to The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority's guidance note concerning the European Single Procurement Document available at http://www.kfst.dk/~/media/KFST/Publikationer/Dansk/2015/Vejledning%20til%20ESPDen.pdf

A tenderer participating alone and who does not rely on the capacity of other entities shall only complete 1 European Single Procurement Document. A tenderer participating alone who does rely on the capacity of other entities candidates shall ensure that DALO receives his own European Single Procurement Document together with a separate European Single Procurement Document with the relevant information for each of the entities that the tenderer relies on. Finally when groups of entities, including temporary joint ventures, participate in the tender procedure together, each of the participating entities must complete a separate European Single Procurement Document with the information required in section II-IV.

Prior to decision on award of the contract documentation for the information stated in the European Single Procurement Document must be produced, cf. §§ 151 and 152 of the said Act. Further information and the applicable time limit is found in the tender documents. DALO further reserves the right to at any stage of the tender procedure to request a tenderer to submit documentation, if this is required to secure that the procedure is conducted correctly. In this situation DALO will set an appropriate time limit for submission of the documentation.

DALO shall exclude a tenderer from participation in the tender procedure, if the tenderer is subject to one of the mandatory exclusion grounds in §§ 135 and 136 of the said Act. The tenderer shall submit information in this respect in the European Single Procurement Document's part III A, B and C. Special attention is drawn to the fact that certain voluntary exclusion grounds have been made mandatory in § 136 of the Act. Please refer to The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority's guidance note for correct completion of the European Single Procurement Document.

Submission of offers.

Tenderers are asked to submit offers via Mercell Sourcing Service.

Offers cannot be submitted by e-mail.

Non-compliance with formal requirements:

DALO reserves the right — but is not obliged — to use the remedies provided for in Section 159(5) of the the Danish Act on Public Procurement (act No 1564 of 15.12.2015 — available at www.retsinformation.dk) if applications or offers do not fulfil the formalities of the tender documents.

For further information see the ‘additional information’ document available at the URL address in section I.3).

Internet address:http://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/klagenaevnet-for-udbud.

Pursuant to Danish Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement (act No 492 of 12.5.2010 with subsequent amendments — available at www.retsinformation.dk), the following time limits for filing a complaint apply:

Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, cf. § 171(2) of of the Danish act on Public Procurement (act No 1564 of 15.12.2015 — available at www.retsinformation.dk) or § 2(1) of the Danish Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

Other complaints must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within:

1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date).

2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, cf. § 2(2) or § 171(4) of the Act on Public Procurement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

4) 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has published a notice concerning his decision to uphold the contract, cf. § 185(2) of the Act on Public Procurement.

The complainant must inform the contracting authority of the complaint in writing at the latest simultaneously with the lodge of the complaint to The Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the stand-still period, cf. § 6(4) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement. If the complaint has not been lodged in the stand-still period, the complainant must also state whether it is requested that the appeal is granted delaying effect, cf. § 12(1) of the said Act.

The e-mail of The Complaints Board for Public Procurement is stated in section VI.4.1).

The Complaints Board for Public Procurement's own guidance note concerning complaints is available at the internet address stated in section VI.4.1).

Internet address:www.kfst.dk