Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-12-10
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO0A3
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel | 85300000
Estimated value: 350000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2024-12-16
Award criteria: quality

Technical requirements: The procurement will be made 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 IV. The tender contest will be implemented in accordance with PPR part I. 

Dialogue / Negotiations:
The contracting authority plans, as a starting point, to carry out the competition without having a dialogue with tenderers that go further than clarifications/corrections. The contracting authority will make a final decision regarding dialogue after the tender deadline has expired.

Dialogue through negotiations can therefore be carried out if the contracting authority, after the tenders have been received, considers it appropriate. Emphasis is put on the fact that no tenderers can expect a dialogue on their tender and must, therefore, submit their best tender.

Attention is defined that tenders that include significant deviations from the procurement documents shall be rejected in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations.
The aim of the contract is to cover the contracting authority ́s need for temporary staff services for the health and welfare sector in the participating municipalities, in accordance with the requirement specifications. 

Tenderers must, as a minimum, be able to offer the following job groups:

-Nurse
- Assistive care/health care work
- Protective nurses
-Unskilled

The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into parallel framework agreements with up to 10 tenderers, provided that there are a sufficient number of qualified tenderers. 

The temporary staff services shall cover the municipalities ́ extraordinary need, where the municipalities themselves cannot manage to cover up with their own temporary staff employed in the municipality. The contract is for both temporary staff for non-planned leave (e.g. sickness) and planned absence (e.g. staff holidays in summer).

Tenderers must be able to deliver temporary staff to all participating municipalities, see point 3.1.4 from when the contract is signed. The entities in the municipalities have somewhat different strategies regarding the use of temporary staff services, some use it regularly throughout the year, whilst some have a greater need for temporary staff for staff holidays. The scope of the agreement will also vary between participants. Participation in the contract does not represent any purchasing obligation.

It is important for the contracting authority to have a well-functioning framework agreement for temporary staff services at all times. The chosen tenderers must have the capacity to prioritise a quick and good implementation and to get at the right service and delivery level quickly. The tenderer shall, during the entire contract period, have a satisfactory organisation for service of the customers. The customer is dependent on good service and availability, short response time and good delivery ability.
Participants in the contract are Ålesund, Sula, Haram, Giske, Fjord, Sykkylven, Stranda, Ørsta, Herøy, Volda, Ulstein and Vestnes.
This requirement only applies to Norwegian tenderers.

Demand:

Tenderers must have their tax, payroll tax and VAT payments in order in accordance with the legal provisions and the tenderer must not have significant arrears.

Any arrears or other irregularities must be justified.

Documentation requirement:

Tenderers shall document the requirement through the certificate "Information on tax and duties". The certificate shall be of the type "RF-1507" and not "RF-1316".

Tenderers can order this in Altinn on behalf of their company (requirements for role in Altinn for order: accountant worker, limited signing right, or auditor ́s worker).

When ordering, state Ålesund municipality as the recipient, so that the contracting authority gets a copy of the certificate directly to its inbox in Altinn.

Read more about the certificate here: https://www.skatteetaten.no/skjema/opplysninger-om-skatt-og-avgift/

NOTE! After the tenderer has sent the tender in TendSign, the tenderer will automatically receive a request from Altinn for consent to share tax information. This consent only applies to information in accordance with "RF-1316". This is not sufficient, as the requirement in this competition is information in accordance with "RF-1507". Tenderers can, therefore, ignore the enquiry in Altinn and instead order the certificate as described above.
Demand:
Tenderers must have the financial capacity to execute the contract.

The tenderer is required to be credit worthy, minimum A, in accordance with Dun & Bradstreet ́s service riskguardian suite (https://riskguardian.bisnode.no), or have the financial capacity to execute the contract based on the contracting authority ́s discretion.

Documentation requirement:
The Contracting Authority will carry out their own assessment of the supplier's finances through RiskGuardian Suite. Tenderers can enclose other necessary information if they believe that RiskGuardian Suite does not provide a correct picture of the financial situation.

The RiskGuardian Suite service includes all Nordic countries. As a general rule, the Contracting Authority will not accept credit ratings from other company and accounting information systems than RiskGuardian Suite due to equal treatment of the tenderers. Foreign tenderers outside the Nordic countries will, however, use and accept credit appraisal through Dun & Bradstreet ́s service Credit (https://credit.dnb.com/).

Tenderers that the contracting authority cannot find a RiskGuardian Suite (or Credit for suppliers outside the Nordic countries), e.g. newly established tenderers who have not built up a basis for a credit rating, must enclose a declaration/guarantee from a parent company/owner/bank or similar financing institutions, regarding the company's financial and economic position.