Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-06-14
Buyer: Bergen kommune - Innkjøp konsern
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32232000 | 32321200 | 32351200 | 38652100 | 50312600
Estimated value: 162000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-08-29
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: A framework agreement will be signed for the purchase of AV equipment and associated services for Bergen municipality and collaborative partners.
The tenderer is also expected to provide consultancy, possible inspections and system proposals for the orders.
Should tenderers have questions or discover errors or ambiguities in the procurement documents, these should be sent to the contracting authority as soon as possible. Due to the contracting authority's holiday schedule, questions will not be answered in July.
Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation: Tenderers registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises do not need to enclose documentation. The contracting authority will control the registration by using the organisation number provided in the tenderer's Mercell profile. For tenderers that are not registered in the above-mentioned register, the tenderer must provide certificates or confirmation of registration (equivalent to a company registration certificate) in a trade register or company register as described in the legislation in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. The required financial capacity will be assessed in relation to the contract's value, services, risk and length. Documentation for Norwegian tenderers: The contracting authority will check tenderers' financial situation from DIFI's eBevis, Proff Forvalt (https://forvalt.no/) and/or via information given by Creditsafe (https://www.creditsafe.com), and can obtain further information from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Note that the tender documentation includes guidelines on how tenderers can supplement available information if wanted. Documentation for foreign tenderers: Tenderers must, upon request, submit a credit rating report from a company that has a licence from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to operate a credit information company in Norway, possibly from a company with the equivalent certification in a member country of the EU/EEA. The credit rating report must be based on updated accounting information.
Tenderers must have substantial and relevant experience. The experience must be from assignments of an equivalent complexity as the services requested in this contest. Documentation requirement: Relevant experience is to be documented by stating a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) reference projects from the last three (3) years. The reference projects are to be entered directly in the Mercell system. Only the first five projects will be assessed if more than five reference projects are listed.
Tenderers are required to have sufficient technical resources and capacity to fulfil the assignment in accordance with the contracting authority´s needs. Documentation: Tenderers must attach an overview of personnel with relevant technical/specialist competence for the fulfilment of this delivery. The overview must include the person's professional qualifications, experience and how the person will be used in the delivery. All the stated resources must have sufficient capacity in the contract period to be used as described.
Tenderers must have adequate competence and professional qualifications for managing and quality assuring the assignment. Documentation: Tenderers must attach an overview of the experience and professional qualifications held by managerial group and/or key personnel that are responsible for the assignment.
The contracting authority requires that all tenderers have an established quality management system that is satisfactory to ensure quality in the execution of this contract. Documentation requirement: A description of the company´s implemented quality assurance system. Certificates must be submitted for the company's quality management system, issued by independent bodies, confirming that the company meets specific quality management standards, for example ISO 9001. If a company does not have a certificate, other documentation of the company's quality management system must be presented. In such cases, the following must, as a minimum, be submitted: * The system's name and a detailed table of contents * A general description of the system's contents, including an overview of check plans and check-lists that are relevant for this contract * An organisation chart that shows responsibilities in the quality assurance system * A description of procedures for internal control and handling deviations (work with corrective and preventive measures) * A description of how the system will be used to ensure quality in this contract. All submitted or collected documentation will form the basis for an overall evaluation of whether the qualification requirement is fulfilled.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation: Tenderers registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises do not need to enclose documentation. The contracting authority will control the registration by using the organisation number provided in the tenderer's Mercell profile. For tenderers that are not registered in the above-mentioned register, the tenderer must provide certificates or confirmation of registration (equivalent to a company registration certificate) in a trade register or company register as described in the legislation in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline.

Award value: 162000000