Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-15
Buyer: Geological Survey of Norway (NGU)
Country: NO
Region: Sør-Trøndelag
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72212100: Industry specific software programming services
Estimated value: 1500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2016-04-15
Award criteria: QualityKvalitet / experience within InSAR, Quoted hourly rates, — Assignment execution plan and references

Technical requirements: QualityKvalitet / experience within InSAR
Quoted hourly rates
— Assignment execution plan and references
Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and the Norwegian Space Centre will establish a knowledge center that shall be responsible for prioritizing admission, systematic processing, refining methods and the establishment and operation of national ground segment for InSAR production line, and hereby invites offers for a framework agreement for software and methods development within InSAR.
a. Nationwide deformation map in low resolution (circa 8x2 multilook), based on analysis of distributed scatterers (eg SBAS), updated 1-2 times per year
b. Deformation map of all urban areas in full resolution (5m x 20m), based on persistent scatterer analysis (PSI), updated 1-2 times per month
a. Demonstrated capability of InSAR time-series analysis based on Sentinel-1 TOPS SLC products. Ability to process from Sentinel-1 IW RAW is an advantage.
The Geological Survey of Norway will evaluate and compare only the Price quoted of those Bids found to be substantially responsive. Detailed evaluation shall be conducted on the basis of:
— Original Bid on paper, dated and signed, in a sealed envelope and clearly marked ‘ Framework agreement for software and methods development within InSAR“
Bidder shall prepare an original offer and send it in a sealed envelope. The envelope should then be placed in neutral envelope and sealed. The neutral sealed envelope shall be marked: ‘Bid: Framework agreement for software and methods development within InSAR’ and delivered within the 15.4.2016 to:
NGU reserves the right to reject the entire, parts of the bid or to enter into negotiation with a selection of the most relevant suppliers. NGU reserves the right to go ahead with new request for bids depending on the size of received quotations, quantity and available budget.
NGU requires that the suppliers of goods and services have the capacity to send their invoices and credit notes electronically in accordance with the standard ‘Electronic Trade Format’ (Elektronisk handelsformat-EHF).
Any question regarding this bidding process should be addresses to Project Leader John Dehls, Phone+47 73 90 4454, E-Mail: john.dehls@ngu.no with a copy to ngu@ngu.no
Bidders are encouraged to submit a censored version of the bid that may be forwarded to other bidders (on request) without damaging any sensitive business information.
Bidding document is in Norwegian language. Interested parties are expected to be able to read instruction and specifications. Insufficient or erroneous bid is the bidder’s own responsibility and it will be rejected.

Eligibility requirements: 1) Company registration certificate (2) Tax certificate for VAT (National requirements) (3) Tax certificate for taxes (National requirement) (4) HES statement in accordance with the regulations (National requirement). 1) The company‘s most recent annual report including new information of relevance to the company‘s accounting figures (2) Statement of the company‘s turnover from recent years with relevance to this contract. (1) Overview of the company‘s total manpower (2) of the principal deliveries effected in the past 3 years, with the values, dates and recipients (3) A statement of the health, safety and environment policy (4) A statement of the quality assurance / quality control (5) A certificate issued by an accredited certification body or equivalent documentation.
1) The company‘s most recent annual report including new information of relevance to the company‘s accounting figures (2) Statement of the company‘s turnover from recent years with relevance to this contract.
(1) Overview of the company‘s total manpower (2) of the principal deliveries effected in the past 3 years, with the values, dates and recipients (3) A statement of the health, safety and environment policy (4) A statement of the quality assurance / quality control (5) A certificate issued by an accredited certification body or equivalent documentation.