Official name: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet — DTU
National registration number: 30060946
Postal address: Anker Engelunds Vej 1
Town: Kgs. Lyngby
NUTS code: DK012
Postal code: 2800
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Mikkel Bjerregaard Jensen
E-mail: mbjje@dtu.dk
Telephone: +45 45252525

Internet address(es):

Main address: http://www.dtu.dk

Body governed by public law

Education

Software-as-a-Service, Consisting of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Bioregistration and Sample Tracking, Workflow and Results Management and Molecular Biology

72210000

Services

Software-as-a-Service, consisting of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), bioregistration and sample tracking, workflow and results management, and molecular biology.

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 317 000.00 USD

72210000

NUTS code: DK012

Software-as-a-Service, consisting of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), bioregistration and sample tracking, workflow and results management, and molecular biology.

Price

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

Explanation:

Benchling was chosen because it was and still is the only integrated R&D software platform that meets the needs for the development of cell factories. It includes a molecular biology suite that is integrated with and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) as well as a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) including modules like bioregistry, workflow and results management.

All modules are seamlessly integrated which reduces both errors made in transferring information from one system to another and the time effort that it takes to keep multiple systems synchronized.

Benchling is completely cloud based and therefore accessible by all international research sites that are associated with the center. Benchling is also fully end-user configurable and integratable, meaning you do not have to maintain on premise servers and is not dependent on the vendor to make configuration changes. Instead, Benchling’s point-and-click end-user configuration enables flexibility as workflows change and develop. In addition, Biosustain’s internal development group can easily integrate any instrument using Benchling’s completely exposed REST APIs without the need for vendor involvement.

Benchling includes an ELN that makes it very easy for scientists to capture unstructured data that can be searched electronically and shared with other users. In addition, it allows users to configure data structures, enabling the capturing of structured data that can be queried, analyzed and compared downstream. This is all possible without having access to LIMS functionality.

The foundation of Benchling LIMS is a biologically intelligent registration system. This means you can directly register and view nucleotide and amino acid sequences from your LIMS, as well as build advanced constraints that are specific to sequences as data type (for example, only allow proteins to link DNA sequences when the protein is a valid translation of the DNA sequence). Beyond that, you can design and analyze sequences directly in your LIMS. Benchling offers native tools for ‘in silico’ cloning, primer design, sequence analysis, alignments and generation of libraries via combinatorial assembly. The seamless integration of the molecular biology suite is especially important for cell factory development and a very unique feature. Moreover, DTU have developed many add-ons to it with very dedicated software applications.

Benchling has also an integrated data warehouse, which means that benchling exports the structured data immediately to a data warehouse in a simplified and easy to use format, enabling scientists to query and analyze data easily without impact on the operational database.

It is therefore DTU’s assessment that only Benchling Inc. can deliver the required solution.

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

04/03/2020

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no

Official name: Benchling Inc
Town: San Francisco
NUTS code: 00
Country: United States

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 317 000.00 USD

Official name: Klagenævnet for Udbud
Postal address: Nævnenes hus, Toldboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: klfu@erst.dk
Telephone: +45 35291000

Internet address: http://www.klfu.dk

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Deadlines for lodging complaints

Complaint regarding a decision on pre-qualification:

Complaint regarding a decision on pre-qualification must be submitted no later than 20 calendar days, from the date after a notification to the concerned candidates informing them of who has been selected, has been sent and this notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. law regarding, Complaints Board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 1.

Complaint regarding the award of contract:

Complaint regarding the award of contract must be submitted no later than 45 calendar days from the date after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the European Union Official Journal informing that the contracting authority has awarded the contract, cf. Law regarding Complaints Board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 2, subsection 1.

Complaint regarding the award of a contract under a framework agreement with a reopening of the competition:

Complaint regarding the award of a contract under a framework agreement with a reopening of the competition, shall be submitted no later than 30 calendar days form the date after the contracting authority has notified the concerned tenderers that a contract has been awarded, if the notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 2, subsection 2.

Complaint regarding the award of a framework agreement:

Complaint regarding the award of a framework agreement must be submitted no later than 6 months from the date after the Contracting authority have notified the concerned candidates and tenderers that award of contract has happened, cf. Law regarding the complaints board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 2, subsection 3.

Complaint regarding direct award of contract:

Complaint regarding the contracting authority’s award of contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the European Union Official Journal must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days from the date after a contract award notice has been published by the contracting authority in the European Union Official Journal and that contract award notice includes the grounds for the decision to award the contract directly, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 3.

Complaint regarding public procurements below the EU threshold:

Complaint regarding public procurements below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 45 calendar days from the date after the contracting authority has notified the tenderers about the award of contract if this notification includes the grounds for the decision; and no later than 6 months after the date where the contracting authority has notified the candidates and tenderers about that award of a framework agreement, if the notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. Law regarding Complaints board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 4, subsections 1 and 2. Compliant regarding a decision on pre-qualification on procurement below the EU threshold must be submitted no later than 20 calendar days from the date after the contracting authority has sent a notification to the concerned candidates regarding who has been selected and this notification includes the grounds for the decision, cf. law regarding Complaints Board (in Danish Klagenævnet for Udbud) § 7, section 5.

Official name: Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen
Postal address: Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
Town: Valby
Postal code: 2500
Country: Denmark
E-mail: kfst@kfst.dk
Telephone: +45 41715000

Internet address: http://www.kfst.dk

06/03/2020