For the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's monitoring of the Danish aquatic environment, a framework agreement is offered with one supplier regarding the supply of wireless data loggers with stable water level and temperature sensors. The purpose of the purchase is to measure water levels and temperature in groundwater wells and river stations throughout Denmark as part of the National Monitoring Programme for Aquatic Environment and Nature (NOVANA).
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency is the sole contracting authority for the framework agreement.
The maximum scope of the framework agreement is 650 systems (i.e. data loggers with associated sensors).
The customer's expected consumption under the framework agreement is shown in quantities in the offer list. The difference between the expected quantity and the maximum quantity is due to the uncertainty of actual consumption, including additional purchases if additional funds are allocated.
Wireless data loggers covered by this purchase must be installed and operated by the Environmental Protection Agency's local employees across the country.
Measured data must be delivered directly to the common public infrastructure for environmental data under Denmark's Environmental Portal (DMP), from where the customer can forward data to various professional databases, such as Jupiter for ground and drinking water and SaV for watercourses, in accordance with established quality assurance procedures. Delivery of measured data from data loggers must take place via a wireless data connection in the loggers directly to DMP's infrastructure in Microsoft Azure (DMP-IoT), bypassing any other cloud solutions.
To ensure stable data transmission also at remote and low-lying measuring stations where receiver conditions can be challenging, data loggers must use stable and nationwide telemetry/network solutions available to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Furthermore, it shall be possible for a field officer supervised in the field to operate a data logger via another wireless connection, directly between the logger and the field officer's control device, i.e. without the use of a telemetry solution, so that any weak network coverage does not make contact with logs difficult.
It is central to the customer that data loggers have a high degree of IT security.
The tenderer may use subcontractors to execute the framework agreement. However, it should be noted that the tenderer must itself perform certain key parts of the framework agreement's tasks. These tasks include the final assembly of components in the individual loggers, testing the connection of sensors and programming firmware and other software.
The framework agreement requires delivery of 2 data loggers no later than 10 working days after the framework agreement enters into force. These data loggers will be included in the customer's initial functional test, cf. clause 9 of the framework agreement. In addition, the supplier must deliver 60 operational data loggers with sensors and any necessary equipment for installation in groundwater wells, no later than 40 working days after the framework agreement enters into force.
The framework agreement enters into force once it has been signed by both parties and is valid for 48 months. Orders under the framework agreement must have been concluded during the term of the framework agreement, but may nevertheless have a duration extending beyond the term of the framework agreement. In these cases, the provisions of the framework agreement shall continue to apply between the parties until all orders have been completed.