Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2023-05-15
Buyer: Nye Veier
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45111250 | 45112450 | 45236000 | 71210000 | 71240000

Technical requirements: The consultant must prepare all material necessary for solving the assignment in accordance with current laws, regulations and other sets of rules. The consultant must expect that in the process, there may be a need for reviews beyond what is described in the law and regulations. The consultant will manage, organise and conduct the process of preparing the plans, including necessary applications to the authorities, and chairing meetings for participation processes and public hearings.
The prepared plans will allow and give the necessary leeway for the contractors' detailed engineering design services in the subsequent phase (turnkey contract).
The consultant must prepare all material necessary for solving the assignment in accordance with current laws, regulations and other sets of rules. The consultant must expect that in the process, there may be a need for reviews beyond what is described in the law and regulations. The consultant will manage, organise and conduct the process of preparing the plans, including necessary applications to the authorities, and chairing meetings for participation processes and public hearings.
The prepared plans will allow and give the necessary leeway for the contractors' detailed engineering design services in the subsequent phase (turnkey contract).
Nye Veier AS ('Nye Veier') signed parallel framework agreements on 13.07.20 with Plan AAV ANS, COWI AS, Norconsult AS, and Sweco Norge AS for the preparation of formal plans for Nye Veier in accordance with the contract's documents, cf. chapter C0 of the contract.
The estimated total value of the framework agreement is NOK 700,000,000, cf. the general contest notice (Doffin reference 2020-376050/TED reference 2020/S 091-218411).
Nye Veier's framework terms, liquidity situation, and portfolio management mean that priorities must also be made as to which planning assignments are commissioned. The assignments that orders are placed for under the framework agreement will be governed by which projects are prioritised for development, and thus, which planning projects must be commissioned. The number of planning assignments, and which types of planning assignments that there will be call-offs for under the framework agreement's lifetime are therefore uncertain. A remuneration budget will be agreed between the parties per assignment when an order is placed for assignments under the framework agreement. Planning assignments are, in accordance with their nature, challenging to estimate budgets for. This is because the assignments last for a long time, and conditions can be uncovered during the assignment that require extra work in the form of further reviews of alternatives, an increased need for varying types of surveys, and lengthy formal discussions on the planning proposals. Such unforeseen extra work means that individual assignments under the framework agreement exceed the budget. The changes in ongoing planning assignments (nine assignments) consist of: Reviews of alternative solutions, routes, and corridors, an increased need for and scope of various necessary surveys and impact assessments, both during the process, and after the hearing before the final discussions on the plan.
A change of supplier would mean that individual planning assignments would stop. This would lead to unpredictable delays whilst waiting for new procurement processes. This could also lead to delays for development projects that are to be commissioned after the development plan has been completed. A change would also involve extra costs and challenges when transferring work that has been started to a new supplier, without knowledge of the processes and the work that has been carried out so far in the individual planning assignments.
Nye Veier has signed a new framework agreement for future assignments, and the changes are limited to what is required to complete ongoing assignments.


Winner: ASPLAN VIAK AS