Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-12-05
Buyer: Oslo municipality, c/o the Agency for Water and Sewage
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71311300 | 79418000 | 79420000 | 79994000
Submission deadline: 2019-01-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract manager will be responsible for implementing the project's contract strategy, including responsibility for implementing all procurements, including design and control of the competition basis for the contracts that the project will establish.
The contract manager will be responsible for the contract structure, quality assurance of all correspondence with suppliers and he must quality assure that all the builder's contract obligations to suppliers are fulfilled. The contract manager will have the trade responsibility for the contract advisors. Included in the project´s management group.
Oslo municipality is establishing a new water supply system with Holsfjorden as the raw water source. The aim is to ensure drinking water for inhabitants if the current water supply fails. The project's estimated cost is approx. 8 500 000 000 NOK. NOK The preliminary project has been completed and the project is now in a middle phase until a subsidy is expected in mid 2019. The construction period is scheduled from 2020 to 2027.
The project's contract strategy is for 8 major contracts for the construction of a new water supply. The total contract cost will be approx. 5 200 000 000 NOK. The contracts are partly execution contracts and partly turnkey contracts. 3 of the contracts include considerable amounts of rock removal, partly combined with concrete work and laying pipes with large dimensions.
In addition to the construction contracts, the contracts in the project will include services and supply contracts. All the contracts must be based on Oslo Municipality's standardised contracts for each contract type and adapted to the project's prerequisites, needs and implementation plan.
The project will procure an individual resource who will have the role of contract manager. The contract manager will report to the project manager and will support the project manager's implementation of the contracts. The role will be included in the project's management group.
The contract manager will be responsible for the implementation of the project's contract strategy, including responsibility for the implementation of all procurements, with activities such as
The contract manager will be responsible for the project's contracts being appropriate and having a structure that meets all needs, and for ensuring that the necessary procedures are in place for implementing the contracts. The contract manager must quality assure all correspondence with suppliers and ensure that all the builder´s contractual obligations to suppliers are fulfilled.
The Contracting Authority will have an option to extend the contract on unchanged terms once or several times, up to and including the project's completion and to when any conditions connected to the project's contracts have ended.
Tenderers must be a legally established company. Norwegian companies: company registration certificate.
Foreign companies: verification that the company is registered in a trade index or a register of business enterprises as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.
The company's last annual financial statements, including notes, the board's annual report and audit report, as well as recent information of relevance to the company's fiscal numbers.
The Contracting Authority will obtain the accounting figures itself from public registers for Norwegian companies.
Tenderers must enclose a list and a short description of the most important deliveries and services performed in the past 5 years, including information on the value, date, and names of the public or private recipients.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial standing to fulfil the contract. The company's last annual financial statements, including notes, the board's annual report and audit report, as well as recent information of relevance to the company's fiscal numbers. The Contracting Authority will obtain the accounting figures itself from public registers for Norwegian companies. Tenderers must have appropriate liability insurance. Insurance certificate.
Tenderers must have sufficient experience from relevant assignments. Tenderers must enclose a list and a short description of the most important deliveries and services performed in the past 5 years, including information on the value, date, and names of the public or private recipients.