Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-02-19
Buyer: Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72211000: Systems and user software programming services
Estimated value: 300000000 NOK
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: The procurement will be carried out in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17 June 2016 (LOA) and the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974 parts I and part III. The contract will be awarded in accordance with the negotiated procedure after the prior notice, cf. § 13-1(2).
 
The tender contest is initiated with a qualification phase. Only tenderers who fulfil the qualification requirements and who have been invited will be able to submit a tender.

All invited tenderers will have their tenders evaluated. After the initial evaluation, the tenderers with the three best tenders will be invited to negotiations. Following the negotiations and any updated tenders, the final evaluation of the three tenders will be made and the contract will be awarded. The rejection rules in the public procurement regulations chapter 24 apply.

The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract without negotiations, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations § 23-7 (5).
The aim of the procurement is to establish two separate framework agreements that ensure access to ICT consultants and consultancy broker services that can support Bufdir in the execution of his social mission. The procurement shall provide access to competence and deliveries that shall ensure continuity and quality in Bufdir's technological development projects. This concerns the development, adaptation and management of the agency's own trade systems and network systems, and adaptation and integration with standard systems, infrastructures and ecosystems for data exchange and interaction with other entities.  The procurement is divided into two sub-contracts, each with a separate set of annexes in the procurement: 1) Technical Development ICT 2) Consultancy broker services for ICT development The two sub-contracts are equal, equal and are independent of each other, and shall individually contribute to covering Bufdir ́s need for technology competence in cases where we do not have this available internally.  It is a prerequisite that tenderers who submit tenders for a sub-contract for consultancy broker services are registered publicly certified by the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority as a manpower company. We would like to enter into separate contracts with one tenderer for each sub-contract and it is a prerequisite that the two lots are awarded to different tenderers.  The agreement period is 2 years with an option for 1+1 year extension. The estimated total volume of the agreements is NOK 300 million over 4 years. It is estimated that 60% of the total contract value will accrue to the sub-contract for ICT consultants, whilst 40% will fall into the sub-contract for consultancy broker services. The estimated value is a guideline and is without obligations for the contracting authority. Call-offs on the framework agreements will depend on, among other things, annual budget grants and priorities.


Winner: Experis AS
Number of bids: 10