Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-08
Buyer: Oljedirektoratet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72222300: Information technology services | 72224100: Systems implementation planning services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72300000
Estimated value: 13000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2020-02-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Diskos is a database administered by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, used by oil companies for storing, accessing, trading and distribution of seismic, well and production data. The procurement of the Diskos Trade module should contribute to maximising the value creation from the oil and gas activities on the NCS through improved functionality and increased efficiency in the module.
Diskos is a database administered by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), used by oil companies (Diskos Members) for storing, accessing, trading and distribution of seismic, well and production data. The Petroleum Act requires companies operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to report seismic, well and production data to the authorities. This is done through reporting of data to the Diskos national data repository (NDR). The Diskos solution also consists of a Trade module that is used for managing trade of seismic and well data between Diskos members and consequently providing entitlement change request to the seismic and well modules.
Diskos 2.0 will have 1 contractor for the seismic, well and production module for data storage and functionality (separate procurement) and 1 contractor for the Trade module (this procurement).
This procurement is divided into 2 contracts; 1 for the implementation phase (Difi SSA-T) and 1 for the operational phase (Difi SSA-L). The duration of the SSA-L contracts (after the implementation phase regulated in the SSA-T contract) will be up to 5 years, with an option for the customer to prolong the SSA-L up to 3 years in total.
The Diskos 2.0 procurement should contribute to maximizing the value creation from the oil and gas activities on the NCS to the Norwegian society, through efficient and responsible resource management. The goal is to cover all needed functionality of the Diskos 2.0 Trade module through 1 single contractor, who will be responsible for its subcontractors and third-party deliverables (if relevant).
— maintaining or improving the efficiency of the operations performed in Diskos digitalize relevant manual tasks to support the entire trade workflow,
— enable the trade of seismic and well datasets and interact with the Diskos 2.0 seismic and well modules through APIs.
The duration of the SSA-L contracts (after the implementation phase regulated in the SSA-T contract) will be up to 5 years, with an option for the customer to prolong the SSA-L up to 3 years in total. The customer can extend the contract for periods of 3 years, 2 years or 1 year at a time.
The tenderer must be a legally established company. Documentation required before award: a certificate of company registration or equivalent certificate for statutory registration in public register or company register of the country where the applicant is established.
The tenderer shall have all matters in relation to government tax authorities in order. Required documentation before award: Norwegian tenderers: Certificate for tax and value added tax (skatteattest) from The Norwegian Tax Administration (Skatteetaten). Foreign tenderers shall submit certificates from equivalent authorities in the country where the tenderer is registered if applicable. The certificate must not be older than 6 months from the deadline for application for participation.
The tenderer shall have an economic and financial standing that makes it able to fulfill its contractual obligations throughout the entire contractual period. The following financial ratios for the company from the 3 most recent years shall be included in Annex B: 1. Current ratio 2. Operating cash flow ratio.
Required documentation before award: tenderer's annual report from last year including accounts (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement), notes and auditor's reports, from the Brønnøysund Register Centre or equivalent register in the country where the tenderer is registered and any newer information relevant for the tenderer's accounts. The customer reserves the right to collect information from the company's own website, or any other relevant sources relating to the company's financial standing, including credit-rating.
The tenderer shall have sufficient relevant experience from similar deliveries, including handling similar data types as stored in Diskos. The tenderer shall fill out Annex C and Annex E, cf. Instructions to tenderer — document section 4.2.3, table 5: Technical and professional qualification requirements. A reference to Annex C in this section is sufficient. In addition, the tenderer shall fill out the template in Annex E. For the response to this requirement the tenderer must take into account section 3.1 and 3.2 of the ITT document. The customer shall emphasise experience from the oil and gas sector.
Required documentation to be included in Annex E: description of the tenderer's 3 most relevant deliveries in the last 3 years. For each of the deliveries the following shall be specified: customer (contact person and contact data to be included), delivery duration (from — to), business area/process/data-types, scope of deliveries (value of deliveries and scope (no of FTE) of development/configuration/integration), applicant role/responsibility (Potential risks related to shared responsibility between contractor and 1 vs. many subcontractors will be emphasized, cf. section 2.1 stating that the Diskos 2.0 contracts in this procurement will be entered into with 1 contractor), delivery method (waterfall/iterative/agile etc.), key technologies, ICT operational delivery model (cloud computing, etc.), description of delivery, challenges, success factors and value for customer (max 1 page for this bullet point).
The customer reserves the right to contact the specified clients as references to verify the information.

Eligibility requirements: The tenderer must be a legally established company. Documentation required before award: a certificate of company registration or equivalent certificate for statutory registration in public register or company register of the country where the applicant is established.

Award value: 13000000