Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-08-21
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO0A3
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel | 85323000
Estimated value: 350000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2024-08-28
Award criteria: quality

Technical requirements: The procurement will be made in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17 June 2016 (LOA) and the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974 parts I and part IV. The tender contest will be implemented in accordance with PPR part II, in accordance with the procedure open tender competition.

Dialogue / Negotiations: 
The contracting authority plans, as a starting point, to carry out the competition without having a dialogue with tenderers that go further than clarifications/corrections. The contracting authority will make a final decision regarding dialogue after the tender deadline has expired. Dialogue through negotiations can therefore be carried out if the contracting authority, after the tenders have been received, considers it appropriate. Emphasis is put on the fact that no tenderers can expect a dialogue on their tender and must, therefore, submit their best tender.

Attention is defined that tenders that include significant deviations from the procurement documents shall be rejected in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations § 9-6(1) b.
The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into parallel framework agreements with up to 10 tenderers, provided that there are a sufficient number of qualified tenderers. The aim of the contract is to cover the contracting authority ́s need for temporary staff services for the health and welfare sector in the participating municipalities, in accordance with the requirement specifications. The temporary staff services shall cover the municipalities ́ extraordinary need, where the municipalities themselves cannot manage to cover up with their own temporary staff employed in the municipality.

Participants in this procurement are:
Ålesund municipality, Sula municipality, Haram municipality, Giske municipality, Fjord municipality, Sykkylven municipality, Stranda municipality, Ørsta municipality, Herøy municipality, Vestnes municipality, Volda municipality and Ulstein municipality.
Ålesund, Sula, Haram, Giske, Fjord, Sykkylven, Stranda, Ørsta, Herøy, Vestnes, Volda, Ulstein
Tenderers must have their tax, payroll tax and VAT payments in order in accordance with the legal provisions and the tenderer must not have significant arrears.

The requirement only applies to Norwegian tenderers.

Documentation requirement: 
After the tender submission, tenderers must give consent for TendSign collecting and the contracting authority receiving information about this via TendSign. After submitting their tender offer in TendSign, the tenderer will receive a request from Altinn for consent to share tax information. The consent is valid at the organisation level and it is valid for 3 (three) months.
If a tenderer does not agree to this, the tenderer must submit a tax and VAT certificate. Tenderers can order such certificates via the Norwegian Tax Administration ́s website. The certificate shall not be older than 6 (six) months calculated from the tender deadline.

Any arrears or other irregularities must be justified.
Tenderers must have the financial capacity to execute the contract.
The tenderer is required to be credit worthy, minimum A, in accordance with Dun & Bradstreet ́s service riskguardian suite (https://riskguardian.bisnode.no), or have the financial capacity to execute the contract based on the contracting authority ́s discretion.

Documentation requirement: 
The Contracting Authority will carry out their own assessment of the supplier's finances through RiskGuardian Suite. Tenderers can enclose other necessary information if they believe that RiskGuardian Suite does not provide a correct picture of the financial situation. The RiskGuardian Suite service includes all Nordic countries. As a general rule, the Contracting Authority will not accept credit ratings from other company and accounting information systems than RiskGuardian Suite due to equal treatment of the tenderers. Foreign tenderers outside the Nordic countries will, however, use and accept credit appraisal through Dun & Bradstreet ́s service Credit (https://credit.dnb.com/).

Tenderers that the contracting authority cannot find a RiskGuardian Suite (or Credit for suppliers outside the Nordic countries), e.g. newly established tenderers who have not built up a basis for a credit rating, must enclose a declaration/guarantee from a parent company/owner/bank or similar financing institutions, regarding the company's financial and economic position.