Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-06-05
Buyer: Vestfold og Telemark fylkeskommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48160000 | 48400000 | 72212160 | 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 7500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-06-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The aim of this procurement is to procure a general system that gives users access to eBooks/eAudio books. The system must include a user friendly eBook/eAudio book reader/loan application that facilitates a good reader experience, spreading literature, and simple retrieval. The procurement must also cover a procurement system with intuitive and user friendly interface that ensures efficient procurements of new eBooks/new content.
The aim of this procurement is to procure a general system that gives users access to eBooks and eAudio books for the public libraries and school libraries in Vestfold and Telemark. The service must be provided over the internet 'as-a-service'.
The system must include a user friendly eBook/eAudio book reader/loan application that facilitates a good reader experience, spreading literature, and simple retrieval. The procurement must also cover a procurement system with intuitive and user friendly interface that ensures efficient procurements of new content. In addition, the system must have administrative functionality, which, amongst other things, makes it possible to maintain available content and extract relevant statistics.
• Tenderers must give a short account of the company's history, core business, and the number of employees, as well as a statement of how many carry out work that is related to the services requested here.
• Tenderers must give a description of minimum two/maximum three relevant deliveries in the last five years. The references must include information on the delivery's value and content, date of delivery, and the name of the public or private recipient, including contact information for their contact person. Relevant references means references for the delivery of a comparable scope to other customers in the public sector and/or of an equivalent nature and size.
A description of the tenderer's environment management system (up to two A4 pages), or a copy of the system certificate issued by the accredited certification bodies or equivalent documentation.
If a tenderer has valid ISO 14001 certification, this certificate will be accepted as documentation of fulfilment of the qualification requirement.
• Tenderers must give a short account of the company's history, core business, and the number of employees, as well as a statement of how many carry out work that is related to the services requested here.
• Tenderers must give a description of minimum two/maximum three relevant deliveries in the last five years. The references must include information on the delivery's value and content, date of delivery, and the name of the public or private recipient, including contact information for their contact person. Relevant references means references for the delivery of a comparable scope to other customers in the public sector and/or of an equivalent nature and size.
A description of the tenderer's environment management system (up to two A4 pages), or a copy of the system certificate issued by the accredited certification bodies or equivalent documentation.
If a tenderer has valid ISO 14001 certification, this certificate will be accepted as documentation of fulfilment of the qualification requirement.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company

Award value: 7500000