Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-12-15
Buyer: NORDRE FOLLO KOMMUNE
Country: NO
Region: NO084
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85300000 | 85312400 | 85323000
Estimated value: 469500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2026-01-21

Technical requirements: Nordre Follo municipality intends to enter into a service concession contract with 3 (three) tenderers for user-controlled personal assistance (BPA), provided that there are a sufficient number of suitable tenderers and tender offers. Users who have a decision on user-controlled personal assistance (BPA) can choose to have the service provided by the municipal service or one of three private service providers.
Nordre Follo municipality invites tenderers to apply for a licence in connection with the provision of assistance hours in the scheme user managed personal assistance for users in the municipality.
Tenderers are registered in a company register or a trade register in the member state in which the tenderer is established. As described in annex XI of directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member states may have to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex.
Minimum qualification requirements
The tenderer shall be a legally established company. Documentation: Norwegian companies shall submit a company registration certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Foreign companies shall submit proof that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Regarding any other economic and financial requirements that have been stated in the notice or in the procurement documents, the tenderer declares that:
Minimum qualification requirements
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract. Tenderers are required to have a bankruptcy rating equivalent to B (moderate bankruptcy risk) from Proff Forvalt (Proff AS) or better. 

Documentation requirement: The contracting authority will use Proff Forvalt (Proff AS) to assess fulfilment of the requirement. Therefore it is not necessary for tenderers to send this documentation. The tenderer is expected to have known registered information about the company in Proff AS. 

If a tenderer chooses to use a parent company to fulfil the requirement, a parent company guarantee must be enclosed. The contracting authority will then use Proff Forvalt to assess the parent company's bankruptcy rating. 

If the tenderer (e.g. newly established companies) is not subject to bankruptcy proceedings in Proff Forvalt, the tenderer is asked to enclose other appropriate documentation. This can e.g. be the company's annual accounts or extracts thereof, bank declarations or liability insurance certificates, ref. the Public Procurement Regulations §16-4.

If one company will use the capacity of other companies to fulfil the requirements for economic and financial capacity, the contracting authority requires that they are joint and severally responsible for the execution of the contract.
Only for services: In the reference period, the tenderer has 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 allow experience from the previous three years to be taken into consideration.
Minimum qualification requirements
Tenderers shall have experience from comparable contracts. It is a requirement that there have been BPA assignments. Other experience within health and care is not seen as equivalent. 

Documentation: Description of the tenderer ́s up to 3 most relevant contracts in the course of the last 3 years. The description must, as a minimum, include a short description of the assignment, a statement of the contract ́s value, the number of hours delivered per week and the recipient (organisation, name, telephone number and email). It is the tenderer ́s responsibility to document relevance through the description.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers are registered in a company register or a trade register in the member state in which the tenderer is established. As described in annex XI of directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member states may have to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex.
Minimum qualification requirements
The tenderer shall be a legally established company. Documentation: Norwegian companies shall submit a company registration certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Foreign companies shall submit proof that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Regarding any other economic and financial requirements that have been stated in the notice or in the procurement documents, the tenderer declares that:
Minimum qualification requirements
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract. Tenderers are required to have a bankruptcy rating equivalent to B (moderate bankruptcy risk) from Proff Forvalt (Proff AS) or better. 

Documentation requirement: The contracting authority will use Proff Forvalt (Proff AS) to assess fulfilment of the requirement. Therefore it is not necessary for tenderers to send this documentation. The tenderer is expected to have known registered information about the company in Proff AS. 

If a tenderer chooses to use a parent company to fulfil the requirement, a parent company guarantee must be enclosed. The contracting authority will then use Proff Forvalt to assess the parent company's bankruptcy rating. 

If the tenderer (e.g. newly established companies) is not subject to bankruptcy proceedings in Proff Forvalt, the tenderer is asked to enclose other appropriate documentation. This can e.g. be the company's annual accounts or extracts thereof, bank declarations or liability insurance certificates, ref. the Public Procurement Regulations §16-4.

If one company will use the capacity of other companies to fulfil the requirements for economic and financial capacity, the contracting authority requires that they are joint and severally responsible for the execution of the contract.
Only for services: In the reference period, the tenderer has 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 allow experience from the previous three years to be taken into consideration.
Minimum qualification requirements
Tenderers shall have experience from comparable contracts. It is a requirement that there have been BPA assignments. Other experience within health and care is not seen as equivalent. 

Documentation: Description of the tenderer ́s up to 3 most relevant contracts in the course of the last 3 years. The description must, as a minimum, include a short description of the assignment, a statement of the contract ́s value, the number of hours delivered per week and the recipient (organisation, name, telephone number and email). It is the tenderer ́s responsibility to document relevance through the description.
Waiting period 10 days after the contract award.
Nordre Follo municipality invites tenderers to apply for a licence in connection with the provision of assistance hours in the scheme user managed personal assistance for users in the municipality.