Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-09-24
Buyer: Ålesund brannvesen KF
Country: NO
Region: NO0A3
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34144000: Special-purpose motor vehicles | 34144200: Road-maintenance vehicles | 34144210: Road-sweeping vehicles | 34144213
Estimated value: 5500000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The aim of the contract is to cover the contracting authority ́s need for a new complete crew vehicle that shall be used in the service of Ålesund Fire Brigade KF (ÅBV), in accordance with the requirement specification.
The vehicle shall be delivered to Ålesund Fire Brigade KF.
Tenderers shall fill in the attached price form in their cost calculations and submit it as an annex to the tender in Excel format. All fields in the attached price form marked with yellow shall be completed. Missing the price fields can cause difficulties in assessing the tender and the tender can then be rejected. 

All prices are in NOK, excluding VAT, including all direct or indirect expenses and duties that could be incurred in connection with the delivery. Order fees and invoice fees are to be seen as expenses. The prices shall include all costs for the customer who is included in this competition. Costs that the tenderer knows will be incurred, but that are not specifically stated in the tender, will be seen as included in the stated costs.

Under this award criteria, "total sum that will be used in the award criteria Price" will be assessed, c.f. the price form.

Price = complete vehicle in accordance with the requirement specification, including costs connected to meetings, travel in connection with hand-over, training etc., in accordance with the requirement specifications. All travel expenses shall be included in the offered price, unless otherwise stated in the requirement specification. 

Options:
A number of products are listed in the price form as an option.
Tenderers must submit a tender price for those who have a yellow marking in the price field, but it is not obligatory to submit a price for those marked with green price fields.
The contracting authority will decide on any options that shall be used in the clarification meeting between the customer and the tenderer after the contract has been signed.

Evaluation:
When assessing the price, a hybrid model with break point 2.5 will be used. The attached template for
evaluation model. The tenderer ́s total points for this award criteria is weighted with the award criteria ́s weighting percentage.
Orientation:
The offered system will be assessed under this award criteria. This will be done based on
the tenderer ́s descriptions of the offered vehicle, see the requirement form and evaluation requirements and how the tender complies with the stipulated standard requirements and specifications in the tender documentation.

Drawings/sketches of the vehicle and proposed plan solutions shall be enclosed with the tender. It is important that drawings illustrate solutions well and that the tenderer gives good descriptions so that the customer has no doubt about what is the correct understanding of the response.
Tenderers must prepare unfulfilled and good descriptions in the requirement form so that the customer can make up relevant opinions on the correct understanding of the response.

Insufficiently fulfilled minimum requirements that do not lead to rejection will also be emphasised under this criteria.

Evaluation:
This award criteria will be assessed based on the tenderer ́s description of the award criteria. A total procurement assessment of the described system will be carried out during the evaluation.
Best solution will be awarded the highest score (10). Other solutions will be awarded a point score relative to the best solution. The tenderer ́s total points for this award criteria is weighted with the award criteria ́s weighting percentage.
The award criteria is weighted 30%.
The award criteria consists of the following sub-criteria:
• The sub-criterion environmental management is weighted 25% of this award criteria.
• The sub-criteria shelf life and lifetime are weighted 75% of this award criteria.

Orientation:
Environmental management system:
The contracting authority would like tenderers to have procedures and systems that ensure a low environmental impact, by ensuring that the tenderer is certified for environmental management in the form of third-party certification such as ISO 14001, EMAS, Miljøfyrtårn or equivalent. This is to as far as possible ensure a production that safeguards climate and environmental considerations. 

The item ́s shelf life and lifetime:
In order to ensure that the contracting authority ́s needs were covered in this procurement, it was not possible to procure vehicles with the most environmentally friendly fuel technology. In order to achieve the lowest possible environmental impact, the contracting authority would like a vehicle that has the longest possible shelf life and lifetime.

•The contracting authority requires that guarantee provisions are enclosed with the tender. Tenderers who can offer the best guarantee terms, both as regards content and duration, will be paid for this. The requirement form states a minimum guarantee and tenderers shall describe their
content, any prerequisites/limitations and length.

• The contracting authority requires that a service contract shall be offered, see the requirement form. The contracting authority is voluntary for how many years the contracting authority will enter into a service agreement.
Tenderers who can offer the best service agreement, both in regard to content, price and length,
will be paid for this. Tenderers shall state the price for the service contract per annum.

Evaluation:
Tenderers who can document that they are certified for environmental management in the form of
third party certification such as ISO 14001, EMAS, Miljøfyrtårn or equivalent will be awarded 10 points. Tenderers who cannot document this will be awarded 0 points on this sub-criteria. 

The sub-criterion on the item's shelf life and delivered time is assessed based on the tenderer ́s description of the award criteria. A procurement assessment will be made when evaluating the described system. Best tenders for this award criteria shall have the highest score (10). If none of the tenderers achieve the highest score (10) by summing up the points scores for the sub-criteria, the contracting authority will add an equal percentage mark-up for all tenderers so that the best tenderer shall achieve a point score of 10.

The tenderer ́s total points for this award criteria is weighted with the award criteria ́s weighting percentage.


Winner: Egenes Brannteknikk AS
Number of bids: 1