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DR has assessed that the Platform and Related Services is connected services that aren’t suitable for division. The Platform is a single backend solution, and the Related Services is directly related to ensuring the operation and performance of the Platform. The contract is not divided into lots due to the objective of having a clear and unambiguous contractual relationship, where the overall responsibility for the Platform and the Services is placed with one supplier in order to ensure the highest possible quality, including efficient management, at the lowest possible price. Given that the Platform in ques-tion is relatively complex, DR believes that this objective would not be met by offering the services into lots. Instead, it is necessary to tender out the delivery and implementation of the Platform and the associated operation, maintenance, etc., to the same supplier. This approach, in the contracting authority’s assessment, ensures the most effective implementation and overall operation of the Platform. Participation in the tender procedure may only take place by electronic means via the electronic tendering system used by the contracting entity. For access to the tender documents, the tenderer must be registered or register as a user. If the tender contains several versions of the same document, the latest uploaded version will apply. All communication in connection with the tender procedure, including questions and answers, must take place through the electronic tendering system. Questions must be submitted not later than the 10th of August 2024. Questions asked after this date will be answered if they are received in time for the contracting entity to provide the information required and communicate the answers not later than six days before expiry of the application dead-line. Questions received later than six days before expiry of the deadline cannot expect to be answered unless the deadline is also postponed. Before the award decision is made, the tenderer to whom the contracting entity intends to award the contract must provide documentation of the information submitted in the ESPD pursuant to sections 151-152, cf. section 153 of the Danish Public Procurement Act. As an alternative to the documentation mentioned in sections 153-155, 157 and 158 of the Danish Public Procurement Act, the applicant and tenderer may submit to the contract-ing entity a certificate of registration in an official list of approved economic operators, see section 156 of the Danish Public Procurement Act, issued by the competent authority. The contracting entity only accepts certificates of registration in an official list from applicants and tenderers established in the country holding the official list. The candidate must as its application submit an ESPD as preliminary documentation of the circumstances set out in section 148(1), paras 1-3 of the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven), and section 137(1) para 2 of the Danish Public Procurement Act. It is not necessary for the tenderer to sign the ESPD document. For groups of operators (e.g., a consortium), a separate ESPD must be submitted for each participating operator. Where the tenderer is a group of operators, the ESPD document of each participant in the group must be signed by the participant in question. The tenderer heading the group and submitting the tender is not required to sign its ESPD document. If the tenderer relies on the capacities of other entities, an ESPD must be submitted for and signed by each of the entities on which the tenderer relies. In this procedure, the candidate may rely on the technical and/or financial capacity of other operators to fulfil the suitability requirements, including for the purpose of selection. The candidate must also submit a letter of commitment in which the entity/entities on which the candidate relies has/have undertaken joint and several liability with the candidate if the candidate is awarded the contract. The form is enclosed as an attachment to the tender specifications. The voluntary grounds for exclusion are applied while complying with the principle of proportionality. Hence, trivial matters cannot result in the exclusion of the candidate. Several matters which, individually, are less seri-ous in nature may, however, give rise to exclusion of the candidate. -o0o- It should be noted that the estimated contract value stated in this notice is an estimate of the expected contract price for the entire term of the contract. The estimate is based on the knowledge obtained during the market analysis and a following calculation of the needed services, including the knowledge from the existing contact. The contracting entity may use the procedure of section 159(5) of the Danish Public Procurement Act in the event that applications or tenders do not comply with the formal requirements of the procurement documents.The contracting entity expects the negotiations to be concerning, the Contract, the Platform, The Services cost-drivers and cooperation, it is expected that there will be one negotiation meeting per tenderer and one negotiation round. For further information on the process of the negotiations, reference is made to the tender specifica-tions and the related Annexes B and C. The duration of the contract is 84 months from the Acceptance Date, cf. the Contract. In addition to the indicated duration of contract, an expiry phase that is flexible in time will be required when the contract is at an end in order to ensure an undisturbed continuation of the Platform in connection with a possible re-tender. -o0o- Section 134a of the Danish Public Procurement Act shall apply to this tender procedure. The contracting entity will select three (3) candidates by applying the selection criteria stated in this contract notice, unless the contracting entity receives no more than three (3) compliant requests for participation. It should be noted that each candidate may only submit one application for prequalification. Attention is drawn to Article 5k in Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, as amended, which applies to the tender procedure. The provision contains a prohibition against award of contracts to Russian companies and Russian-controlled companies etc. (reference is made to Article 5k, section 1, for the precise definition of the operators that are subject to the prohibition). The contracting entity reserves the right to require at any time during the tender process that the economic operators prove that they are not subject to the prohibition, for example by requiring a declaration to this effect and/or documentation regarding the place of establishment and ownership of the economic operators and any subcontractors.