Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-08-21
Buyer: Oslo kommune v/ Bymiljøetaten
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71631450
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 150-BYM-2017 Framework agreement for consultancy services for the management of bridges and retaining walls.
The Agency of Urban Environment manages approx. 400 used bridge constructions of various sizes. These include simple culverts and more complicated constructions, as well as minor wooden bridges in parks, recreational areas and woods. The contracting authority also manages several retaining walls. The procurement must cover the need for bridge inspections and advice connected to the management of bridges and retaining walls. The contracting authority would like to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer to meet this need. The financial framework for the contract is approx. 1 500 000 NOK per annum.
The procurement must cover the need for bridge inspections and advice connected to the management of bridges and retaining walls. Main inspections must be carried out on approx. 150 bridges with the accompanying reports in BRUTUS over a 3 year period. The list of bridges is attached. The bridges can be found in BRUTUS, where examples can also be seen of how the inspections have been carried out previously, as well as overview pictures.
Call-offs can be made for special inspections and main inspections that are in addition to the attached list. The procurement must also cover any adjustments that are needed to use classes. Classification calculations can be required in these cases. The procurement will cover maintenance engineering design services and advice for major alterations of or reinforcements to bridges. Call-offs will be made on the framework agreement for maintenance engineering design services, advice and the classification of bridges and retaining walls.
150-BYM-2017 Framework agreement for consultancy services for the management of bridges and retaining walls.
The Agency for Urban Environment draws attention to the fact that the qualification requirement for tenderers´ economic and financial capacity set in this competition can be seen to be disproportionate as regards the tenderer´s suitability to fulfil the contract. The requirement for economic capacity, an annual minimum turnover of 10 million NOK, can be seen as too strict and can be disproportionate in this competition. The requirement can also be limiting for the competition.
The contracting authority can, within the tender deadline, correct, supplement or change the tender documentation if the changes are not significant. We have assessed whether we can change the qualification requirement in the tender documentation. If the change has the consequence that other tenderers would have been interested in submitting a tender in the competition, the change will, as a starting point, been seen as significant. A change of the mentioned qualification requirement/minimum requirement for economic capacity would be seen as a significant change in this competition. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries´ guidelines to the rules for public procurements (the public procurement regulations) state that if the contracting authority must change the tender documentation and this cannot be done without significant changes being made, the contracting authority is obligated to cancel the competition. With reference to the above, the Agency for Urban Environment has chosen to cancel the competition.
We will immediately publish a new competition for the procurement of a framework agreement for consultancy services for the management of bridges and retaining walls.