Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-07-05
Buyer: Lier Vei, Vann og Avløp Kf
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45233141: Road-maintenance work | 90620000
Submission deadline: 2023-08-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contest concerns snow ploughing and clearing for municipal roads, foot and cycle paths and places in Lier municipality. The contest also concerns gritting and salting of some municipal roads and properties.
The procurement's value is estimated to be above the EEA threshold. The value is an estimate and is not binding for the contracting authority.
Tenders can be submitted for one or several areas. Sub-tenders and alternative tenders cannot be submitted for individual areas.
The procurement will be regulated by the attached contract and the accompanying standard terms and seriousness provisions.
The contract period is from and including 01.10.2023 to and including 30.09.2026. The contract will then be automatically renewed for 1 (one) year at a time unless notice is given by one of the parties.
The contracting authority will sign a contract with 1 tenderer for each lot, provided that a sufficient number of qualified tenderers submit tenders to the contest.
The contracting authority expects that the tenderer is familiar with the contract provisions and makes the necessary internal clarifications in such a way that a contract can be signed if awarded.
As part of the simplification of public procurements, and based on experience from similar, former procurements where many tenderers have limited experience with submitting tenders, the contracting authority has chosen not to require ESPD to be included in this call for tenders.
The tenderer is asked to confirm that none of the grounds for rejection in the form's Part III are relevant to you as a tenderer (this applies to funding of terrorist organisation, child labour, corruption, and involvement in criminal activities).
All requirements are listed here: https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/e44dd7923a63428a9c1367ed3d4c6d71/espd-standardformular-versjon-1.2.pdf
Documentation requirement: Requirement for certificate of paid VAT, tax and social security contribution. A certificate issued by the competent authority in the tenderer's country, confirming that the tenderer has met the obligations in regard to payment of VAT, tax and social security contributions in the country where the tenderer/contractor has its headquarters the (Norwegian certificate for Tax and VAT is combined and ordered from altinn.no, RF-1507, previously RF-1244) in accordance with the legislation in the country where the tenderer is registered. The certificate must not be more than six months old.
The contracting authority is not allowed to request the certificate if he has already received it, in accordance with the regulations § 17-1(4). If you have submitted a tax certificate and it is still valid at the tender submission deadline for this contest, you are not obliged to submit a certificate now. If this is the case, state when and to whom the certificate was previously submitted. You can, however, attach the certificate voluntarily if you want.
Requirements regarding the tenderer´s economic and financial standing: The financial capacity to fulfil the contract is required (ESPD: Part IV B.58-3).
Documentation: The contracting authority will assess finances through the company and accounting information system Proff Forvalt (www.forvalt.no). The contracting authority reserves the right to obtain supplementary information about the tenderer's finances.
Any need for support from other companies in order to fulfil this qualification requirement: If the tenderer is dependent on other companies to fulfil this qualification requirement, an account thereof shall be given below. In such cases the contracting authority will assess the finances of the supporting company in the same way. The contracting authority retains the right to collect supplementary information, bank guarantees or similar.