Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-14
Buyer: Norad – Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72600000
Estimated value: 6000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2020-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) by the Department of Communication invites to open tender with the aim of entering into a framework agreement with a supplier for further development and maintenance of Norad's websites.
Norad's intranet and the Grant Portal (grants.mfa.no) are not included in this tender. Norad's content management system (CMS) is Episerver, and in addition Wordpress is used for noradbloggen.no. A separate agreement will be entered into with Episerver, which will operate norad.no and bistandsaktuelt.no and deliver the publishing system. The tender winner will be Norad's implementation partner for the solution Episerver's cloud solution.
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) by the Department of Communication invites to open tender with the aim of entering into a framework agreement with a supplier for further development and maintenance of Norad's websites.
Norad's intranet and the Grant Portal (grants.mfa.no) are not included in this tender. Norad's content management system (CMS) is Episerver, and in addition Wordpress is used for noradbloggen.no. A separate agreement will be entered into with Episerver, which will operate norad.no and bistandsaktuelt.no and deliver the publishing system. The tender winner will be Norad's implementation partner for the solution Episerver's cloud solution.
The customer has the right to extend the framework agreement by an additional one year at a time up to 2 times.
The framework agreement also provides an option for providers to offer services in Microsoft Azure for websites or portals not operated through Episerver DXC.
Norwegian tenderers must submit a tax certificate for value-added tax, taxes and national insurance contributions. This certificate is available in Altinn. The tax certificates must not be older than six (6) months calculated from expiry of the closing date for submission of tenders. Sole proprietorships must submit confirmation from the tax collector/tax authorities that they are not registered in the VAT register. Overseas tenderers must submit equivalent tax certificates from their own countries.
The most significant supply contracts performed by the enterprise over the last three (3) years, including their value, time and recipient.
The winning tenderer and Norad shall enter into a data processing agreement before the work can start. This will be done when concluding the contract.

Eligibility requirements: Norwegian tenderers must submit a tax certificate for value-added tax, taxes and national insurance contributions. This certificate is available in Altinn. The tax certificates must not be older than six (6) months calculated from expiry of the closing date for submission of tenders. Sole proprietorships must submit confirmation from the tax collector/tax authorities that they are not registered in the VAT register. Overseas tenderers must submit equivalent tax certificates from their own countries.

Award value: 6000000