Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-03-18
Buyer: Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 73200000 | 73210000
Estimated value: 1500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2022-04-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The objective of the agreement is to provide the Ministry a better basis for further follow-up of Investinor and the application of business policy measures aimed at access to capital for companies in their early phase. The evaluation shall provide a holistic assessment of the company’s various mandates and roles, individually and as a whole, including the measures aimed at different phases and the collaboration with, and interface to, other participants in the public policy measure system.
There is a principal question whether Investinor's activities are suitable for improving the access to the market’s early-stage capital for Norwegian companies. To the extent that the situation described by the Capital Access Committee has persisted and indicates market failure, the evaluation should consider the degree of the failure.
Investinor is an investment company that manages six mandates on behalf of the Norwegian state. The company was established in 2008 with a mandate to invest directly in early-stage companies. In 2019, the Storting decided that the company should be given a new mandate for fund and matching investments and undertake the management responsibility for three investment schemes from Innovation Norway.
The objective of the agreement is to provide the Ministry a better basis for further follow-up of Investinor and the application of business policy measures aimed at access to capital for companies in their early phase. The evaluation shall provide a holistic assessment of the company’s various mandates and roles, individually and as a whole, including the measures aimed at different phases and the collaboration with, and interface to, other participants in the public policy measure system.
There is a principal question whether Investinor's activities are suitable for improving the access to the market’s early-stage capital for Norwegian companies. To the extent that the situation described by the Capital Access Committee has persisted and indicates market failure, the evaluation should consider the degree of the failure.
A certificate, not older than 6 months, which verifies that the tenderer has fulfilled the obligations of payment of taxes, social security contributions and VAT. The certificate can be ordered and obtained from Altinn by using a separate link on skatteetaten.no. Foreign tenderers must provide certificates from equivalent authorities to the Norwegian authorities.
A description of the tenderer´s three most relevant assignments in the last three years, together with information about the contracts values, dates of deliveries or executions and names of recipients.
Relevant assignments are in this context defined as evaluations of the use of government resources, socio-economic analysis of business policy measures and analysis of capital markets, etc. The tenderer is responsible for ensuring that the description is of such a nature that it verifies compliance with the requirement.


Award value: 1500000