Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-11-18
Buyer: Løten Kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO020
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34110000: Passenger cars | 34113000: Four-wheel-drive vehicles | 34144900: Tram cars | 60112000
Submission deadline: 2025-12-23
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Description of the service where the vehicles shall be used: Home based services are operated 24/7,365 days a year under all conditions. During the day, all vehicles are in operation until lunch. After lunch, occasional 1-3 of the vehicles are parked. In the evenings, three vehicles are in continuous operation. At night (from 21-07) is mainly one, sometimes two, vehicles in operation, but often with some downtime in the middle of the shift. In order to ensure proper provision of the service, as well as to ensure good safety for the employees, home based services are dependent on having a vehicle park with good handling in demanding conditions. The road network is sometimes bad and there are a lot of uphills in the district. Furthermore, our stand-by depends on having vehicles with particularly good range even under very cold temperatures and under driving conditions where all the vehicle ́s vehicle assist/driver support systems (antispinn etc)and climate installations are in operation. The nature of the home service is characterised by a lot of small driving and frequent start/stop and this must be reflected in the calculation of the range, as well as the effect on the vehicles ́ wear (particle filter, EGR valve etc). Mercell Norway AS • Askekroken 11 • 0277 OSLO • Mercell Norway Customer Service
Løten municipality currently has a leasing agreement for vehicles for home based care that expires in spring 2026. The vehicles shall be used within the health and welfare service and the municipality therefore needs reliable vehicles for vital and 24 hour continual services. The users reside throughout the municipality with varying standards on roads and driving conditions and the vehicles must have good range. The municipality currently has 7 vehicles that must be replaced with 8 new electric cars. There is a need for eight vehicles, of which minimum two must have four wheel drive. See the requirement specifications for further details.
• Leasing price per month 50% 
o Prices shall be filled in in the annex price form, excluding VAT. 
o The agreement period is 48 months. 
o The rents shall be based on floating interest rates. The interest shall be determined based on the average NIBOR for the previous quarter (3 months NIBOR). 
o Prices shall be fixed for 12 months when the contract is signed. Any price changes with the extension of the contract shall be notified in accordance with point 4.17 in the requirement specification. 
o The hire price per month shall include all costs of the vehicle maintenance, such as:
  ▪ All taxes, duties and fees to the government 
▪ Service and repair costs, see point 8 "wear" 
▪ Collection and bringing of service vehicles, including loans of replacement vehicles, in connection with service and warranty repairs. 
▪ High quality summer and winter tyres 
▪ Storage of tyres 
▪ Tyre replacement in spring and autumn 
▪ Roadside Help 

The content of the service shall be in accordance with all requirements in the tender documentation and it is the tenderer ́s responsibility to make calculations on the basis of information in the tender documentation and annexes.
For this criteria the result of the test drive and a score of the minimum requirements and specifications given in the annex Price Form with product specifications will form the basis of the evaluation. Tenderers must provide free of charge vehicles for testing. All lines in the annex price form with product specifications are to be completed.
Delivery time is stated in the price form with product specifications and point 1 under Service Requirements in the requirement specification.