Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-02-23
Buyer: Tolletaten
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79100000
Estimated value: 15000000 NOK
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Customs invites tenderers to an open tender contest with the intention of entering into a framework agreement for the purchase of lawyer services. The framework agreement for lawyer services is divided into three sub-areas (sub-contracts), where the aim is to enter into a contract with one tenderer per sub-area. 

As a starting point, internal lawyers are used for legal issues, but at times the agency needs consultancy, quality assurance or specialist competence within the stated sub-areas below. Participation in negotiations and meetings, as well as assistance within dispute resolution and procedure can also be relevant within the requested sub-areas. The objective of the framework agreement is, therefore, to ensure the Norwegian Customs effective access to qualitatively good lawyer services as needed, in an efficient manner and on competitive terms. 

The sub areas are as follows:
Sub area 1: Labour law and pensions.
Sub area 2: Business Lawyer Areas
Sub area 3: Public law areas

Tenders can be submitted for one or several sub areas. Each sub area constitutes a competition and it will be evaluated independently of the other sub-areas. If a tender is submitted for several sub-areas, it is a prerequisite that the tenderer fulfils the qualification and award criteria requirements for each sub area.
• Competence area: Labour law 
There can be a need for assistance within the competence area of labour law and pensions in the following areas:
o The Working Environment Act and the Government Employees Act 
o The main contract in the state
o The main agreements in the government.
o The government special agreements
o Administrative provisions for personnel area
o Transfer of business
o Pension question
• Competence area: Technology and digitalisation. 
There can be a need for assistance within technology and digitalisation in the following areas:
o Data security
o Privacy Policy/GDPR
o Information security 
o Cloud Services
o Intellectual property right/IPR
o IT contracts/services 
o General contract law

• Competence area: Property rights 
There can be a need for assistance within property rights in the following areas: 
o Assistance with entering into, extensions and termination of rent terms.
o Hire and hire
o Disputes in relation to rent terms
o Purchase and sale of real estate
o Disputes in relation to access to free premises, c.f. the Public Procurement Act. 
o Operation and management of properties
o Compensation question
o Consultancy related to development plans
o Consultancy related to ongoing rent terms.

• Competence area: Public procurements Within the competence area of public procurements, there can be a need for assistance in, among other things, the following areas: 
o Design/quality assurance of tender documentation and contracts
o Call to action in signed contracts/changes
o Assessment of deviations and conditions.
o IT contracts/services, including Standard Contracts (the Government Standard Agreements (SSA) and the Computer Association ́s standard contracts.
o Licension
o Various procurement and contractual problems
o Appeals processes
• Competence area: General administrative law.
There can be a need for assistance within the competence area general administrative law in the following areas:
o Administrative law
o Offentleglova
o Privacy Policy/GDPR
o Control activities (review of legal basis/administrative, criminal and civil law frames)