Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-02-05
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Region: NO0A2
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71240000 | 71242000 | 71245000 | 71246000
Estimated value: 2200000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-03-21
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Is the supplier in a situation where he has been forced debt arrangement?  Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer in a bankruptcy situation? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, in the event a enforceable verdict has been convicted of corruption by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Corruption as defined in Article 3 of the Convention on Combating Corruption, Involving European Communities or European Union Member States (EUT C 195 of 25.6.1997, s. 1), and in Article 2, point 1, in the Council ́s framework decision 2003/568/RIA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (EUT L 192 of 31.7.2003,  p. 54). This rejection reason also includes corruption as defined in national law for the contracting authority or supplier.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, at the time a legally convicted verdict of participation in a criminal organisation by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of the Council ́s framework decision 2008/841/RIA of 24 October 2008 on control of organised crime (EUT L 300 of 11.11.2008, p. 42)
Has the tenderer entered into agreement(s) with other tenderers with the intention of turning the competition?

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers shall have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract obligations.
The tenderer is required to have an annual minimum turnover of NOK 300 million in the last three financial years.
Tenderers are required to be credit worthy (credit worthy without security requirements).
other
Tenderers shall have a documented and implemented quality assurance system (quality management system), which is based on relevant European standard series, which are certified by accredited bodies, for example NS-EN ISO 9001:2015.

Tenderers shall have procedures and systems that ensure environmental considerations and environmental measures are
taken into consideration when carrying out the contract, including the individual deliveries in accordance with
Contract. Tenderers are required to have documented and implemented
environmental management system, which is based on relevant European standard series, which is certified
of accredited bodies, for example NS-EN ISO 14001:2015.

Tenderers shall have a documented and implemented internal control system.
(security management system) that also includes security.
For this competition and based on received requests for participation in the competition, the Contracting Authority will select a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of six (6) tenderers who will be invited to submit a tender and participate in the negotiations, cf. the tender documentation chapter B3. The contracting authority can choose fewer tenderers than stated above if there are not a sufficient number of qualified tenderers, cf. the supply regulations § 12-7 (3). The selection among the qualified tenderers who are invited to submit tenders will be based on the contracting authority ́s evaluation of which tenderers are deemed to be the best qualified on the basis of the set requirements for the tenderer ́s technical and professional qualifications, cf. Chapter B2, point B2.2.4. The assessment will be based on submitted documentation for the fulfilment of set requirements for the tenderer ́s technical and professional qualifications, cf. chapter B2, point B.2.2.4.
The contracting authority will give written notification about the selection of the tenderers who are invited to submit a tender. Written notification will also be given to the tenderers who will not be chosen to submit a tender together with a short justification, cf. the supply regulations § 12-7 (4).
The qualification requirements for the competition are stated in chapter B2, point B.2.2.2 to B.2.2.5 below. The qualification requirements set the minimum requirements for the tenderer ́s qualifications, as well as minimum requirements for the tenderer's legal position, financial capacity, technical and professional qualifications, as well as a quality, environment and security management system. Each individual qualification requirement must be fulfilled in order for the tenderer to be assessed as qualified. The qualification requirements shall ensure that the tenderer has the ability to deliver in accordance with the contract and thus it is suitable to be able to fulfil the contractual obligations. Tenderers who do not fulfil the qualification requirements will be rejected, cf. § 20-2 (1) letter a).
Tenderers shall be a legally established company or consist of a community of suppliers who are legally established companies. 
The requirement also applies to entities that the tenderer will use, cf. chapter B2, point B.2.4.1.
Tenderers shall be registered in the Electrical Enterprise Register in accordance with the regulations on electrical companies etc. dated 19 June 2013 no. 739 § 3, as an approved electrical company for engineering design/execution of electrical installations connected to roads and railways.
The tenderer, or other entities that the tenderer will use to fulfil the qualification requirements, shall not be a unit that is subject to the ban on the award of public contracts in § 8n in the Sanctions Regulations of Ukraine (FOR-2014-08-15-1076).
Demand
Tenderers shall have sufficient experience and competence from consultancy and engineering design services within tunnel, road and railway projects of an equivalent nature and
Difficulty.

Documentation requirement
• A description of the tenderer's most relevant deliveries of consultancy and engineering design services within roads and railways, including engineering design services for large and complex tunnel, road and railway projects with long duration and several interfaces, with equivalent size and complexity as described for each call-off under the framework agreement, respectively;
o preparation of a design basis, 
o preparation of the tender documentation for execution contracts, turnkey contracts and interaction contracts in accordance with the rules for public procurements, 
o preparation of the engineering design and work basis for execution contracts, as well as follow-up in the construction period, 
o experience from collaboration contracts, 
o signal engineering design services for railways and 
o digital engineering design services for major transport installations, including implementation and management of model based projects, cf. the tender documentation chapter D.
• It is the tenderer ́s responsibility to document the stated reference projects/
relevance of the assignments through the description. The stated reference projects shall document experience and competence connected to all central works, cf. above.
• Tenderers shall describe a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of six (6) projects/assignments that the tenderer has carried out during the last five (5) years. The description shall include information on; 
o Name of the recipient/contracting authority, 
o The contract ́s value,
o The assignment ́s content and extent, including a description of the tenderer's role and responsibility, 
o Contract period - start and end date of the contract.

Use the template for relevant reference projects included in chapter B4, Annex 3, Relevant Reference Project. The description of each reference project shall have a maximum of two (2) A4 pages in accordance with the template for relevant reference projects, cf. chapter B4, annex 3. Maximum 12 A4 pages for a description of six reference projects. Guidance text in the introduction can be removed by using the template. 
The following text requirements apply;
• Font: Lucida Sans
• Font size: 10
• Line spacing: 1.0
• Margins: It is not allowed to change margins on a form
Note: The requirement for a minimum of two (2) and maximum six (6) reference projects applies together for the tenderer, including any companies that the tenderer will use to fulfil the requirements for technical and professional qualifications and/or suppliers who participate in jointly. Each reference project does not need to document experience from the execution of all the stated central works. Several reference projects can, thus, together document sufficient experience and competence from assignments of an equivalent nature and degree of difficulty.

Demand
Tenderers shall have sufficient capacity, in the form of human and technical resources, to fulfil the contract.

Documentation requirement
• A description of the technical personnel and technical units that the tenderer has at his disposal for 
fulfil the contract, including personnel and/or units that are responsible for quality control.
• A description of the tenderer's average workforce and the number of employees in the management during the last three years.
• A description of the tools, materials and technical equipment that the tenderer has at its disposal for fulfilment of the contract.
• A description of how much of the contract the tenderer is considering putting away to sub-suppliers. Information shall be given for which parts of the delivery each sub-supplier will be used.
Note: CVs shall not be submitted during this stage of the procurement process.