Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-09-17
Buyer: NORGES BANK
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 9000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-10-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Norges Bank would like to enter into a contract with a tenderer for a project coordinator assignment for experimental testing of digital central bank money.
In order to coordinate the project for experimental testing of digital central bank money and contribute to appropriate implementation, a contract will be signed for a project coordinator.
Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country in which the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must have the economic and financial capacity to carry out the assignment/contract throughout the entire contract period. Documentation requirement: The following documentation must be attached to the ESPD form: Annual accounts including the annual report for the last two years. If a tenderer has not been in business for two years, the tenderer's annual accounts with the auditor's report must be attached for all operational years.
Tenderers must have good experience from similar deliveries. Similar deliveries mean deliveries of consultancy services in the Norwegian payment system or equivalent country, or consultancy services related to financial technology, including decentralised technology. Documentation requirement: A description of similar deliveries in the last three years, calculated from the tender deadline. A delivery that has not been completed by the tender deadline can also be relevant. The description must include: * The name of the customer * Scope of the deliveries (date, duration, and value) * Description of the delivery.
Tenderers must complete annex 3 'form for a description of the tenderer's technical and professional qualifications' ------ Tenderers must have sufficient capacity to provide the assistance at times when the offered resource has unforeseen absence. Sufficient capacity means the capacity to provide consultancy services within financial technology, decentralised technology, and test management.
Tenderers must have a minimum of 2 resources available within each discipline. Documentation requirement: Tenderers must give an overview of at least two resources that will be available for the implementation of the contract within the following disciplines: * Financial technology * Decentralised technology * Test management.
Tenderers must complete annex 3 'form for a description of the tenderer's technical and professional qualifications'. ------ Tenderers must have a good and well-functioning quality system. Documentation requirement: A description and documentation of a quality assurance system.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country in which the tenderer is established.

Award value: 9000000