Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-18
Buyer: Utenriksdepartementet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000 | 75210000
Estimated value: 80000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-01-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework Agreement for Research and Development in Foreign Policy and Development Policy 2021-2025 (1)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invites tenderers to participate in an open tender contest for the procurement of research and development services connected to Norwegian foreign policy and development policy. UD is responsible for and needs research-based knowledge in its field. In addition to long term research projects, which are normally initiated through the Research Council of Norway, there is a need for more short term, assignment-based research (entity that obtains new knowledge) and development (processing, facilitation, and practical use of established knowledge) on prioritised themed areas connected to foreign policy and development policy.
A total of nine framework agreements are announced, for which parallel framework agreements can be entered into with up to three tenderers for individual framework agreements. A total of 27 framework agreements can be signed.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invites tenderers to participate in an open tender contest for the procurement of research and development services connected to Norwegian foreign policy and development policy. UD is responsible for and needs research-based knowledge in its field. In addition to long term research projects, which are normally initiated through the Research Council of Norway, there is a need for more short term, assignment-based research (entity that obtains new knowledge) and development (processing, facilitation, and practical use of established knowledge) on prioritised themed areas connected to foreign policy and development policy.
A total of nine framework agreements are announced, for which parallel framework agreements can be entered into with up to three tenderers for individual framework agreements. A total of 27 framework agreements can be signed.
The framework agreements are given in the titles below, with the overall main theme in bold text. The key words that are given after the main theme are meant as examples per theme/catchment area that come under the main theme, but are not meant to limit the use of the framework agreement. The intention of giving each contract a broad catchment area is that so that contract can be used in the coming 4 years in accordance with the sustainability goals and within the foreign policy and development policy framework.
Framework agreement 7: Democracy, form of government, MR, constitutional government, global and regional cooperation;
(i) tenderers must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Foreign tenderers: verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must be qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway. This means that the tenderer must be approved as a research organisation by the Research Council of Norway.
Tenderers must provide documentation verifying that they are qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway.
Requirement: tenderers must have sufficient capacity and competence to implement the research assignments.
This means that the tenderer must have a sufficient number of persons at their disposal with research competence, who have relevant and professional qualification in relation to the framework agreement for which tenders are submitted.
A tenderer can use cooperating partners/subcontractors to fulfil this requirement, but must in Appendix 2 make it clear that the tenderer also disposes of persons with relevant research competence.
Documentation requirement: tenderers must give a description in Annex 2 of the staffing they have at their disposal for the delivery, as well as their relevant competence.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: (i) tenderers must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirement (i) Norwegian tenderers: company registration certificate. Foreign tenderers: verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Tenderers must be qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway. This means that the tenderer must be approved as a research organisation by the Research Council of Norway. Tenderers must provide documentation verifying that they are qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway.

Award value: 80000000