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Re Section I.1) The Tender, cf. Contract Notice no. 2019/S 190-462423 concerned a joint procurement. Consequently, Section I of this Modification Notice should include both 1) Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen and 2) Toldstyrelsen as contracting authorities (in the following collectively referred to as "the Customer"). The Customer refers to the full provided information in Contract Notice no. 2019/S 190-462423. The purpose of the tender was to provide a platform that will enable the Customer to become compliant with the Union Customs Code (hereafter "UCC") according to the deadlines in the EU Commissions Multi Annual Strategic Plan (hereafter "MASP"). To ensure compliance with UCC, the Customer will through the tender procure a declaration management solution (hereafter "the Solution") and implement the functionality and integrations to support import declaration processes. The Solution is expected to be implemented according to deadlines in the MASP. The Customer expected the supplier to have in-depth knowledge in the customs domain and especially of the UCC and MASP. The Customer will use an agile approach for implementation with close collaboration and co-location at the customer location. The tender also includes additional services including training, hyper care, further development, changes, maintenance, support and operations of the solution. The Customer’s strategy was that the future Solution should be based on an existing standard software (commercial off the self-software) in the form of a declaration management system in use by other EU countries to support UCC compliance in import, export and transit processes to minimize project risk and timeline. The Solution must be able to support both EU requirements and national business requirements. To achieve this the Customer expected the functionality to support import, export and transit processes to be further developed and/ or adjusted in order to meet the Customer’s business needs to the extents that this was not already supported in the current functionality of the standard system. The Solution should also be able to support the functionality of export and transit declaration processes, but implementation of these processes was not included in the initial implementation part of this tender. However, it was the Customer’s intention to support the import processes through a minimum implementation based on the requirements in the UCC and necessary national business requirements. It was essential that the Solution was flexible to ensure a future-proofed system that could enable the Customer to effectively implement changes and additional functionality in lifetime of the Solution. This version of the description of the procurement at the time of conclusion of the contract is non-exhaustive. For the full version, the Customer refers to section II.2.4) of the Contract Notice 2019/S 190-462423.