Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-30
Buyer: Skatteetaten
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30211300 | 66140000 | 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 1500000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2017-05-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: New parallel framework agreements shall be signed for consultancy services that shall cover Skatteetaten's [the Norwegian Tax Administration's] primary need for consultancy assistance in different sub-areas (lots). Tender offers can be submitted on 1 or more of these lots. It is also possible to submit tender offers on individual locations such as Grimstad and Mo i Rana.
Further development and management of the current Data Warehouse on the Oracle platform, in collaboration with internal employees.
The Norwegian Tax Administration is procuring a new information platform. When this has been procured, there will be a great need to build the content on the platform in its entirety.
The objective of the category is first and foremost to support the work of modernising the system portfolio in-line with the Fremtidsbildet 2025 [The Future Picture 2025] and other strategic guidelines.
This area should cover the Norwegian Tax Administration's need for assistance in test areas. The Norwegian Tax Administration develops and tests in accordance with the flexible principles and test methodology based on the ISTQB standard's flexible methodology.
The infrastructure and operations area shall ensure access to the right resources with the right competence, that can assist with the service specification and development of infrastructure, as well as operational assignments within the areas that are part of our (current and future) infrastructure and applications portfolio.
The Norwegian Tax Administration has a central role in the Norwegian society through their responsibility for setting and collection of taxes and duties and running a central National Register. This involves management of large quantities of information about organisations and individuals, which sets high requirements of information security.
The area of user quality covers competence that ensures an intuitive and effective user experience for those with tax and duties obligation, and for the Norwegian Tax Administration's own employees.
This area of the framework agreement should cover the Contracting Authority's need for assistance in the discipline of electronic learning.
The Administration's large projects are organised with an external quality assurer who reports to the project owner, but shall at the same time support the project manager. The primary focus is to provide advice that contributes to the success of the projects by achieving goals and reduced risk. External quality assurers should be independent of the delivery environment.
Area 14 — Java system development, should cover the Norwegian Tax Administration's need for assistance in Java development that is not covered by other areas, including Java developer, scrum-master and building master (DevOps).
The Norwegian Tax Administration is open to receiving tender offers from consulting agencies who's core activity is to manage consultants that are not directly employed by the mediation company. Sub Area 15, Consultancy mediation will be a ‘back-up area’, that will be used in instances where a mini competition has been carried out and the offered resources and/or capacity, after a comprehensive assessment, does not satisfy the Norwegian Tax Administration's needs and/or requirements to a satisfactory degree.


Award value: 1500000000