Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-03-01
Buyer: Hias IKS
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 30237110 | 32510000 | 32570000 | 32571000 | 32581000

Technical requirements: All of the municipalities at Hedemarken have analogue water meters in operation (35 000 units in total), but need to simplify reading of water meter data and collect ongoing information about the water use at the subscribers. This will provide valuable information for operation and management of the water supply, improve municipal services and multiple advantages for the residents.
A working group has been established, consisting of representatives from Hias IKS and the owner municipalities of Hamar, Ringsaker, Løten and Stange, that have received the task of finding a suitable method for remote reading of water meters for the municipalities at Hedmarken.
The working group has been working on this since autumn 2019, and has among other things, carried out a separate pilot in Ringsaker Municipality to test data flow from water meters to screens in 2020. We now need to come into contact with relevant suppliers in the market who can deliver goods and services to all or part of our IoT ecosystem (see generic sketch of IoT ecosystem in Annex 1).
Hias IKS and the owner municipalities of Hamar, Ringsaker, Løten and Stange, need to come into contact with relevant suppliers who can deliver innovative and secure, quality goods and services to all or parts of our IoT ecosystem across suppliers and technologies in order to cover the current and future need for remote reading of data from water meters. (See generic draft of IoT ecosystem in Annex 1.)
The working group wants the announcement to be answered only in writing, limited to a maximum of five A4 pages, in addition to answering the requirement tables in Annex 2.
The response must describe the supplier's fulfilment of requirements for all or parts of our IoT ecosystem in accordance with the requirement tables in Annex 2.
Based on the degree of fulfilment of our requirements in the responses, as well as the project group's discretionary assessment, we will rank all of the suppliers and contact a minimum of three, maximum of ten most relevant actors in each area for further dialogue meetings on Teams.
Submitted documentation will not be returned, but will be handled confidentially. Information about which suppliers we have had dialogue with can be made public.
In our work with finding the best possible solutions for collection and management of water meter data at Hedmarken, the working group focus is on covering the following need (the list is not exhaustive):
— simplified collection, handling and reporting of water consumption data with better control both for the municipality and the subscribers,
— better preparedness through more efficient control routines and opportunities for alarm notification (also to agencies other than water and sewage, ref. ‘Smart Buyer’),
— optimisation of operational monitoring (zone measurement, pressure regulation, leakage measurement, water-loss analysis, etc.),
— reduction in water consumption due to increased knowledge, awareness of own consumption and early detection of leaks among residents and industry,
— better and simpler service from the municipalities residents and businesses that provides more value despite increased costs basic premises.
The working group for remote reading of water meters at Hedmarken works on the basis of a mandate from the Regional Management Group Water and Sewage with the following basic premises: