Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-06-16
Buyer: Norsk Helsenett SF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 38437000 | 38437100 | 50421000 | 50433000
Estimated value: 2200000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-08-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, hereinafter referred to as the "Contracting Authority", needs to procure a framework agreement to cover the need for services within service, periodic maintenance, preventive maintenance and calibration of pipettes used in the Contracting Authority's laboratory activities. The Norwegian Medicines Agency [Statens legemiddelverk] (the Norwegian Medicines Agency and Norwegian Customs [Tolletaten] share laboratory premises and use the same equipment) is also joining this agreement.
The aim of this procurement is to ensure that the pipettes are checked, calibrated, and maintained in accordance with the current requirements. This is to ensure that the results of the analysis are reliable.
The type of services needed for each laboratory will depend on internal resources and whether or not pipettes are used for accredited analyses. Needs may then vary from only service/repair upon discovery of faults and deviations for one department, while the needs of another department which is accredited per the ISO 17025 standard may be pre-checks and calibration twice yearly/annual calibration and periodic maintenance and service/repair.
The pipettes are generally used to pipette biological material (infectious), chemicals and reagents. The pipettes are used at varying intervals, some daily, some weekly, some less frequently and spare pipettes are only calibrated before they are to be used. The contracting authority also has a number of pipettes used at the P3 lab that are autoclaved. Since several pipettes are used in accredited analyses, in this contest, the contracting authority will set quality requirements based on the needs of these laboratories.
The Contracting Authority would like to be able to coordinate maintenance and calibration so that the Tenderer can carry out the assignment in an efficient and appropriate manner. It would therefore be preferable to have a dialogue with the relevant departments to look at opportunities to create a maintenance and calibration plan for the relevant pipettes. Labelling of pipettes with calibration intervals may also be desired.
- Grensesvingen 26, 0663 Oslo (SLV/Toll) For information and an overview of existing pipettes, see Annex 2 Overview of pipettes.
Documentation requirement: The requirement must be documented with a credit rating based on the last known fiscal figures. The rating must be carried out by a credit rating company with licence to conduct this service. Creditworthiness with no requirement for guarantees will be sufficient to meet the requirement.
Requirements: The tenderer must have the capacity, sufficient resources with the right expertise to carry out checks, calibration and preventive maintenance and service/repair.
Documentation: Description of the Tenderer's service organisation. The description can be replaced by documentation that clarifies the service organisation. In addition, the following must be provided: - Overview of professional and technical personnel - Overview and calibration certificates for relevant equipment/instruments to be used to perform services

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register or trade register in the member country where the tenderer is established. As described in annex XI to directive 2014/24/EU; tenderers from specific member states may be required to fulfil other requirements in the annex mentioned.

Award value: 2200000