Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-09-03
Buyer: FORSVARSMATERIELL
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48400000 | 48600000 | 72000000 | 72200000
Submission deadline: 2021-10-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Forsvaret og Forsvarsmateriell [the Norwegian Armed Forces and the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency] use SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Integrated planning (IP) to support reporting and annual/multi-year planning. The purpose of this procurement is to procure necessary software so that the current SAP BW solution (including BWA. BEx and SAP integrated planning) can be replaced with new more timely and efficient solutions and provide the possibility of implementing new functionality. The procurement includes purchase/lease of necessary software (including maintenance and expansion access) and options for assistance with development, implementation and converting.
The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency draws attention to the fact that this contest has been previously announced, and that changes have been made to the tender documentation from the previous notice.   Tenderers must take particular care to use the correct document package.
The Norwegian Armed Forces and the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency use SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Integrated planning (IP) to support reporting and annual/multi-year planning. The system is built on aging data warehouse architecture that has contributed to a complex SAP system landscape, which is demanding to manage and operate.
The aim of this contest is to procure the necessary software so that the current SAP BW system (including BWA, BEx, and SAP Integrated Planning), which has an end of maintenance in 2027, can be replaced with new, more modern, and efficient systems, as well as allowing for the implementation of new functionality.
The procured system will be a central component of the defence sector's future management systems, together with the current client tool (SAP BO-portfolio) and Corporater.
The system must support the Norwegian Defence's overall management processes in order to improve and raise the quality of the management processes through digitalisation and reuse of data from the existing ERP system. In addition, the system(s) must contribute to reduced use of resources and the need for manual activities for data entries. The process that must be supported are strategic planning, annual planning, goal and result follow-up, and strategic analysis. The current system for annual planning is to be replaced with a new system in this process portfolio. The system for goal and result follow-up is to be continued and integrated with the new systems.
The procurement includes the purchase/hire of the necessary software licences (including maintenance), as well as options for, amongst other things, consultancy services for the development of the new system(s) mentioned above, and the conversion of reports and management data. The implementation of new systems and the conversion of the Norwegian Defence's reports are scheduled to start in mid 2022.
The procured system will be integrated with the Norwegian Defence's SAP landscape (see annex 3). There will also be integrations with non-SAP applications, both self-developed and standard software.
The system will be installed and run on a platform that is classified as RESTRICTED, and it must be possible to integrate it in already existing ITSM processes and in the information security concepts that apply for the existing Joint Integrated Management System - FIF.
The procured system first by used by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency and the Norwegian Defence, but it must also be possible for other parts of the defence sector to use it.
The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency draws attention to the fact that this contest has been previously announced, and that changes have been made to the tender documentation from the previous notice.   Tenderers must take particular care to use the correct document package.
Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the Tenderer is established. As described in annex XI of directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member countries can be required to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex.
Foreign companies: Confirmation that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
A credit assessment from a certified credit rating agency based on the most recent known accounting. The rating must not be older than three months.
- Experience with size-assessments, and optimising and tuning of performance on servers and data storage (database) in order to support the data warehouse and management systems.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the Tenderer is established. As described in annex XI of directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member countries can be required to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers: Company registration certificate Foreign companies: Confirmation that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.