Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-01-16
Buyer: Ålesund kommunale eiendom KF
Country: NO
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45100000: Site preparation work | 45110000 | 45112700 | 45113000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Ålesund kommunale eigedom KF (ÅKE) [Ålesund municipal properties], henceforth referred to as the Contracting Authority shall construct a new school at Hessa. The new school shall replace the old school. The school will be situated west on the site of the existing school. After the new school building is completed and pupils and teachers have moved into the building, the existing buildings shall be demolished. The new school shall have a capacity for up to 504 pupils. This represents 72 pupils for each year. SFO (Wraparound care service) shall be dimensioned for pupils in the 1st to 4th year and constitutes 220 pupils.
In accordance with the decided purchasing strategy for Ålesund municipality, it is a condition that the ambition goals of BREEAM-NOR Good and ZEB-O are met for the project.
The contractual work consists of a new building of approx. 6,500 m2 gross area including associated outdoor areas as well as roads and spaces. The existing buildings shall be demolished by the turnkey contractor.
Ålesund kommunale eigedom KF (ÅKE) [Ålesund municipal properties], henceforth referred to as the Contracting Authority shall construct a new school at Hessa. The new school shall replace the old school. The school will be situated west on the site of the existing school. After the new school building is completed and pupils and teachers have moved into the building, the existing buildings shall be demolished. The new school shall have a capacity for up to 504 pupils. This represents 72 pupils for each year. SFO (Wraparound care service) shall be dimensioned for pupils in the 1st to 4th year and constitutes 220 pupils.
In accordance with the decided purchasing strategy for Ålesund municipality, it is a condition that the ambition goals of BREEAM-NOR Good and ZEB-O are met for the project.
The contractual work consists of a new building of approx. 6,500 m2 gross area including associated outdoor areas as well as roads and spaces. The existing buildings shall be demolished by the turnkey contractor.
4 tenders were received in the turnkey contract contest for Hessa School. The contest was held as an open tender contest. This is a procedure that does not allow dialogue/negotiations with tenderers apart from clarifications.
In the contest the award criterium price was weighted with 70%, and was, therefore, of decisive importance for the choice of tender. Whilst reviewing the submitted price offers, we saw that the guidelines in the tender documentation for pricing and the evaluation of options had an unfortunate effect as the defined evaluation sum would not identify the tender with the lower cost.
The call for tenders is now cancelled pursuant to the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) § 25-4 (1). All the tenders are therefore rejected in the contest.
The contracting authority has assessed that the guidelines in the tender documentation for the price evaluation includes errors and are, therefore, not suitable for nominating the actual best tender. An error of this nature can only be corrected responsibly be cancelling the tender documentation and holding a new contest.