Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-04-23
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO0A3
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services
Submission deadline: 2024-05-27
Award criteria: quality

Technical requirements: The procurement will be made in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17 June 2016 (LOA) and the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974 parts I and part IV. The contract will be awarded in accordance with the open tender contest procedure, cf. FOA § 8-3.

The contracting authority plans, as a starting point, to carry out the competition without having a dialogue with tenderers that go further than clarifications/corrections. The contracting authority will make a final decision regarding dialogue after the tender deadline has expired.
Dialogue through negotiations can therefore be carried out if the contracting authority, after the tenders have been received, considers it appropriate. Emphasis is put on the fact that no tenderers can expect a dialogue on their tender and must, therefore, submit their best tender.

Call-offs on the framework agreement will be made during mini-competitions.
The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into parallel framework agreements with qualified tenderers, with the intention of covering the customers ́needs for the procurement of doctors to the health and welfare sector in participating municipalities, in accordance with the requirement specification.

The temporary staff services shall cover the municipalities ́ extraordinary need, where the municipalities themselves are unable to provide temporary staff.

The following municipalities are participating in the agreement: 
Ålesund, Sula, Giske, Haram, Sykkylven, Stranda, Fjord, Vestnes, Vanylven, Volda, Ørsta and Herøy.
Tenderers must have their tax, payroll tax and VAT payments in order in accordance with the legal provisions and the tenderer must not have significant arrears.

The requirement only applies to Norwegian tenderers. 

Documentation requirement:
After the tender submission, tenderers must give consent for TendSign collecting and the contracting authority receiving information about this via TendSign. After submitting their tender offer in TendSign, the tenderer will receive a request from Altinn for consent to share tax information. The consent is valid at the organisation level and it is valid for 3 (three) months.

If a tenderer does not agree to this, the tenderer must submit a tax and VAT certificate. Tenderers can order such certificates via the Norwegian Tax Administration ́s website. The certificate shall not be older than 6 (six) months calculated from the tender deadline.
Any arrears or other irregularities must be justified.
Tenderers must have the financial capacity to execute the contract.
The tenderer is required to be credit worthy, minimum A, in accordance with Dun & Bradstreet ́s service riskguardian suite (https://riskguardian.bisnode.no), or have the financial capacity to execute the contract based on the contracting authority ́s discretion.

Documentation requirement:
The Contracting Authority will carry out their own assessment of the supplier's finances through RiskGuardian Suite. Tenderers can enclose other necessary information if they believe that RiskGuardian Suite does not provide a correct picture of the financial situation. The RiskGuardian Suite service includes all Nordic countries. As a general rule, the Contracting Authority will not accept credit ratings from other company and accounting information systems than RiskGuardian Suite due to equal treatment of the tenderers. Foreign tenderers outside the Nordic countries will, however, use and accept credit appraisal through Dun & Bradstreet ́s service Credit (https://credit.dnb.com/).

Tenderers that the contracting authority cannot find a RiskGuardian Suite (or Credit for suppliers outside the Nordic countries), e.g. newly established tenderers who have not built up a basis for a credit rating, must enclose a declaration/guarantee from a parent company/owner/bank or similar financing institutions, regarding the company's financial and economic position.
Tenderers shall be certified in the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority ́s register for certified staffing agency.

Documentation requirement:
The contracting authority will itself examine whether the tenderer is a certified manpower agency in the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority ́s register, see Finn authorised manpower companies (arbeidstilsynet.no).