Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-12-27
Buyer: Trondheim kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33140000: Medical consumables
Estimated value: 160000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-01-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Trondheim municipality invites tenderers to an open tender contest in connection the commencement of a framework agreement for medical consumables, including incontinence and nutrition products, for the municipality´s entities.
The aim of the procurement is to ensure efficient and easy access to medical consumables for the municipality´s units, such as nursing homes, the home care service, shared housing, health stations, the prison health service and other institutions, in addition to collaboration partners who shall use the contract.
The contracting authority would like to receive tender offers for the following product categories (the list is not exhaustive):
Requirement: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers shall enclose a company registration certificate. The company registration certificate must not be older than one year. Foreign companies shall present proof that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established. This means that the documentation must be equivalent to the Norwegian company registration certificate, as stated in e-Certis.
Requirement: The tenderer must be credit worthy, classification A. Creditworthiness against a guarantee is not accepted. For recently established tenderers, a certificate showing score A/N is sufficient. Documentation requirement: Credit assessment of the tenderer, not older than 6 months from the deadline for receipt of tenders. The evaluation will be based on the last known fiscal figures with an indication of how the credit rating has developed during the last three years. The evaluation must be issued by a company with a credit information licence from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. See www.datatilsynet.no. The result of the credit appraisal shall be stated as a categorised score (letter of number) against a defined scale. Recently established tenderers must substantiate the financial capacity for the implementation of the assignment or other documentation, e.g. accounting figures and a bank guarantee.
Tenderers have, in the reference period, carried out the following important goods deliveries of the requested type, or the following important services of the requested type. The contracting authority can require up to three years' experience and can take experience from the period before the last three years into consideration.
The tenderer utilises the following technical facilities and quality assurance measures and the tenderer's examination and research facilities are as follows: See the minimum requirements.
The tenderer must be able to utilise the following control for the delivery chain and tracing systems for the implementation of the contract: See the minimum requirements.
The tenderer can utilise the following environmental management measures for the implementation of the contract: See the minimum requirements.
Requirement: Tenderers must have experience from similar assignments. For newly founded tenderers, it is sufficient that the proposed key personnel have experience from equivalent assignments. Documentation requirement: An overview of the most important deliveries of goods or services that the tenderer has carried out in the last three years, together with information on the contract´s value, delivery date or execution and the name of the recipient.
Requirement: Tenderers must have a functioning quality assurance system/quality management system. Documentation requirement: Description of the tenderer's  quality assurance/quality assurance measures.
Requirement: Tenderers must have a system for monitoring and tracking in the delivery chain. Requirement: A description of the the system for managing the supplier chain, that the tenderer will use to carry out the contract. This comprises quality assurance measures that enable systematic follow up of the work with safeguarding basic human rights and ILO’s core conventions down the supplier chain/production process. Documentation requirement:  A description of the tracking systems that the tenderer will use to fulfil the contract. The description must state methods and/or systems that enable tracking of the production locations and country of origin involved in the supplier chain for the services in this contract.
Requirement: Tenderers must use environmental management measures whilst implementing the contract. Documentation: Description of environmental management measures. A self-declaration on the environmental system attached to the tender documentation can be used as documentation.
The contracting authority requires that the tenderer's wage and working conditions are in accordance with generally applicable collective agreements or nationwide collective agreements for the relevant area covered by the contract. Wage and working conditions are in this context defined as provisions on minimum working hours, wages, including overtime supplements, shift and rota supplements and inconvenience supplements and coverage of expenses for journeys, food and lodgings, to the degree that such provisions are in the tariff agreement.
In its procurement regulations, Trondheim municipality has decided that requirements for pay and working conditions also apply to subcontractors. When the tender is submitted, the tenderer must confirm that the sub-contractor complies with the requirements.

Eligibility requirements: Registered in a trade register or company register. Requirement: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers shall enclose a company registration certificate. The company registration certificate must not be older than one year. Foreign companies shall present proof that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established. This means that the documentation must be equivalent to the Norwegian company registration certificate, as stated in e-Certis.

Award value: 160000000