Internet address(es):

Main address: www.aarhus.dk

Mobility as a Service (Maas) — Multi modal Data platform Project — The City of Aarhus

The City of Aarhus has had a call for interested partners for a market dialogue and possible negotiations and conclusion of a PPI contract with one or more partners. The PPI project involves analysis and development ofan innovative solution of a Multi modal Data platform (a data sharing platform) that supports both public/private collective transport providers (the operators of public transport, ride sharing services, taxi companies, car sharing service etc.) and citizens which use public/private transport. A part of the project is also to develop a testpilot of a Mobility Service. The overall aim of the project is to support collective transportforms in order to reduce pollution, CO2 emissions and solve congestion problems. The City of Aarhus has selected five interested partners which the City of Aarhus has been in a dialogue and negotiation process with. On this background the City of Aarhus has selected Fluidtime Dataservice GmbH as a contracting partner.

Østjylland

Cf. II.1.4 the City of Aarhus has invited - in cooperation with Business Region Aarhus (a cooperation of 12 municipalities in eastern Jutland http://www.businessregionaarhus.com/) — any interested company to inform the City of Aarhus of their qualifications and wish to enter the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) PPI. Interested companies could enter the partnership in order to provide the Multi modal Data platform and/or in order to be a Mobility Service provider, developing and making available mobility services to citizens based on the Multi model Data platform. Two or more companies can also enter the partership as cooperative partners/a consortium of partners.

The PPI is expected to result in a business model that shows how a mobility system should be designed to be sustainable, both economically and socially. The project is to involve development of a Mobility Service Pilot (the development of at least one mobility service). The City of Aarhus will — in close cooperation — with the private partner(s) carry out an innovation process to set up the Multi modal Data platform and the Mobility service Pilot. The Multi modal Data platform should be to able to gather all relevant mobility data from various transport providers. The platform has to ensure that data is accessible for other services and that data can be processed in the same way and thereby be comparable. The mobility project as a whole — and especially the development of the Mobility service Pilot should include a positive business case i for all relevant stakeholders.

This means that the interested companies should demonstrate a business plan for the mobility system — as a whole — including a long-term finance plan that illustrates the cost of the system/cash flow within the system and e.g. savings in general or/and at the level of the users of the system. The business plan should include a cost/finance plan for the PPI-project and operation of the Mulit modal Data platform in a pilot period until 30November 2019.

Besides the demonstration of a business and financial plan — the interested partners was selected on basis of their ability to demonstrate organizational innovation skills and project leading skills.

The aim of the project is to demonstrate a pilot for a national MaaS and is not expected to be followed by a tender of the developed solutions. The extent of the PPI project is described in the contract and the City of Aarhus will contribute to the PPI in the form of in kind contributions and money covering certain expenses. It is the assesment that the PPI contract involves research- and development services that are covered by article 3, (6),14, and 32, (2), b, ii) in Directive 2004/18/EC and therefore the obligations in the Directive to complete a tender does not apply.

The contract involves research and development activities and services and supply. As for the services involved, the contract is not subject to the Directive 2014/24/EU, cf. article 14, implemented in Denmark through the Danish Act on Public Procurement, cf. section 22, as:

A. The benefits of the PPI project do not accrue exclusively to The City of Aarhus for its use in the conduct of its own affairs, cf. clause 10 and 12 and

B. The service provided is not wholly remunerated by The City of Aarhus, cf. clause 6 and Appendix 2.

In the event – for any reasons – that parts of the products and services provided under the contract should not be considered solely provided for research and development purposes such services and products willhowever be subordinate and closely associated with the research and development activities under the Agreement to such an extent that they cannot be separated from the PPI Agreement, cf. the Danish Act on Public Procurement, section 26, no. 24.