Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-11-11
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Region: NOZZZ
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72212328 | 72243000 | 72300000 | 72312200: Optical character recognition services
Estimated value: 140000000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The procurement is for a License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) as a component of the AutoPASS system portfolio. LPRS embraces a system for Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Manual Image Recognition (MIR).
Total Cost of Ownership
The Criteria for Price shall assess The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) throughout the entire contract period, including establishment, operation (with the accompanying costs for the Contracting Authority) and other relevant cost elements connected to the proposed system.

TCO comprises the following cost elements:
• Establishment costs
• Operational costs for the Contracting Authority ́s platform*
• Monthly service charges
• Image processing fees
• Hourly rates for additional services or unforeseen activities.

Documentation requirement:
The tenderer shall fill in:
• SSA-L Annex 6 Annex 1
Quality and risk of the offered system, which can include (but is not limited to):
• Establishment phase
• General requirements
• LPRS requirements
• Performance level and scaling
• Hosting of software in the service
• Reports and reporting interface
• Service Desk
• User administration and identity and access management
• Cyber security
• Security management
• Security Documentation
• Audits and quality assurance
• Testing and development - environment, tools and methodology.
•Maintenance
• New versions
• Application operation

Documentation requirement:
The tenderer shall fill in:
• SSA-L Annex 2 and Annex 1.
• SSA-L Annex 3
• SSA-L Annex 4
• SSA-L Annex 5
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has decided not to include climate and environmental considerations as the award criteria in this competition. The Procurement Regulations § 7-9 (2) requires that climate and environmental considerations are emphasised with at least 30%. According to the public procurement regulations § 7-9 (5), this does not apply if the nature of the procurement means that climate footprint and environmental impact are insignificant.
The Norwegian Directorate for Management and Financial Management (DFØ) has prepared guidelines on how the procurement regulations § 7-9 shall be understood. In accordance with these guidelines, the following types of procurements are excluded:
• Telephony and mobile telephone services
• Archive and documentation services
• Consultancy and analysis services

Our procurement is for LPRS. The main content of this type of procurement is services carried out by human resources. The services include identifying license plates, either by using data or manually. These services have a climate footprint and environmental impact that is insignificant, and they also coincide with the above mentioned procurement types, which are exempted from the requirements in the procurement regulations. Accordingly, in accordance with the requirements in the procurement regulations § 7-9 (5), the obligation will therefore not emphasise climate and environmental considerations with at least 30% in use.
The contract can be extended for 1+1+1+1 year, total 7 years.


Winner: Q-Free Norge AS
Award value: 140000000
Number of bids: 11