Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-01-03
Buyer: Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat (NVE)
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314200: Energy management services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71322400 | 71800000
Estimated value: 20000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2022-01-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The framework agreement covers professional consultancy services within energy and water resource management in projects and programmes administered by NVE's international section. In addition, professional consultancy services can be required for public institutions, energy works, and other partners in the development cooperation in cases where the contracting authority sees there is a need for such input.
The call-offs under the framework agreement will be concretised through assignment descriptions that must be solved by the contract partners. Reports must be submitted to the contracting authority for each assignment in line with the guidelines in the framework agreement and the individual assignment descriptions. Examples of relevant types of assignments are:
Assistance with 'workshops' and communication processes in Norway and abroad. Institution development and competence transfer is an important part of all the above areas and will be considerably weighted in all our projects.
The tenderer can also be used as a professional discussion partner. The assignments can comprise both desk assessments and field work.
A. Review connected to the management and development of the energy sector including regulation, market reforms, subsidies, and tariffs.
B. Technical and economic reviews related to energy and energy supply, including, amongst other things, energy planning, power system planning, power market analysis, interaction between different energy carriers, and energy efficiency.
C. Technical and economic assessment of energy projects, including power production, transmission and distribution, insulated network, and distributed systems.
D. Analyses, plans, and assessments of measures that concern the adaptation and mitigation of climate changes.
E Environmental and social aspects that concern projects and the management of energy and water resource exploitation.
G. An assessment of socially useful and sustainable power for planned and implemented projects and measures, including socio-economic perspectives.
H. Water resource management and hydrology, including technical, environmental, and economic reviews.
The tenderer must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Norwegian tenderers must have their affairs in order with regard to the payment of tax, payroll tax and value added tax (VAT).
Description of the tenderer's 3 most relevant assignments in the last 5 years within each of the themed areas listed in Annex 1. The description must include a statement of the contract value, date and contact person at the customer (name, telephone number and e-mail address). It is the tenderer's responsibility to confirm relevance through the description. Tenderers can document experience by referring to the competence of the personnel that are at the tenderer's disposal and may be used for this project, including experience that has been acquired while the personnel was in the service of another employer. Some of the listed assignments must have been carried out in relevant countries for the framework agreement.

Eligibility requirements: Company registration certificate: The tenderer must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 20000000