Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-12-20
Buyer: AVINOR AS
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 34960000 | 34968000 | 38120000 | 48100000 | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services
Estimated value: 5000000 NOK

Technical requirements: The system provides continuous, real-time weather information to pilots, airport operators, and interface partners.
The tenderer must deliver the hardware and software in the installation. The assembled equipment is critical for safety and there are very major consequences for Oslo Airport if the installation is not stable. In order to ensure secure and stable operation, the tenderer must have competence and experience with programming and service.
Compliance with the relevant authority and inspection requirements stated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the national inspection authority.
The meteorological system (MET) at Avinor AS, dep. Oslo Airport is a comprehensive system consisting of different types of meteorological sensors with data collection, central processing and distributed display and interface with other flight navigation installations.
The meteorological system at Oslo Airport is used to issue essential flight weather information from the fight weather services to user groups, who assess this information in relation to safe and operational operations.
Local users of the system at the airport are mainly the Air Traffic, Flight Weather, Flight Navigation and Site Services, in addition to external service providers at the Meteorological Institute and at Oslo Control Centre. Oslo Airport operates the system with its own internal resources.
Proprietor software must be replaced. Critical parts of the meteorological system have reached the technical lifetime age and need to be replaced. There is a 3-year replacement plan for this old equipment.
The procurement rules in the regulations for the utility sector §9-3 b) state that a contracting authority can make a procurement without a competition if the procurement is for services that only a specific supplier can provide because, competition is impossible due to technical reasons and the supplier has a monopoly, including immaterial rights.
The assembled equipment is critical for safety and there are very major consequences for Oslo Airport if the installation is not stable.
In order to ensure safe and stable operation, we completely depend on the supplier who has expertise.
Vaisala Oy is a global leading supplier of the meteorological system and has a large service organization.
The contracting authority is announcing this intention notice for an award of contract for the procurement of products for this system. This is to ensure that we do not bypass other actors in the market who could deliver this service.
Tenderers who can consider they will be in a position to offer this are asked to contact the Avinor case manager Yvonne Rydningen, by email, yvonne.rydningen@avinor.no.
If the contracting authority does not receive inquiries by 05.01.2018, the contracting authority will sign a contract in mid-January 2018 with the current supplier, Vaisala Oy.


Winner: Vaisala Oy
Award value: 5000000