Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-10
Buyer: Arbeids- OG Velferdsetaten (NAV)
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000 | 72267100: Maintenance of information technology software | 72300000 | 72500000
Submission deadline: 2021-06-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet (NAV) [the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)] will implement procurements within:
Services and development areas will be outsourced that are currently regulated by contract for the category operation and monitoring. The contest will be implemented as a tender procedure with negotiations. The contract is scheduled to be signed on approx. 30 September 2021.
NAV plans to hold four tender contests with negotiations for the service area given in the table below. It is now necessary to hold competitive tendering for this service area as the contract will soon expire.
The software service is central to NAV's mainframe environment. A service contract will be established for the 'sub-category (contract area)' production analysis tool.
The procurement will cover licences for software services. Tenderers must be able to implement, integrate, maintain and further develop the offered systems.
It is important for NAV to arrive at a flexible solution that serves NAV's mainframe environment in an optimal way. It is also important to ensure flexibility in the costs as regards the contracting authority's expectations of reduced use and established contracts that are in accordance with the relevant rules that apply to NAV.
The scope of the contract is in accordance with machine capacity. The applicable machine capacity is 491 MSU. For a more detailed description of scope refer to the tender documentation Part III Annex 3 Client's technical platform.
The contract duration will be from signing and up until 31 December 2023 with the possibility to extend for 1 year + 1 year + 1 year.
• Annex 8: Total price and price terms including the spreadsheet 'Contract for the Procurement of Software Annex 8';
The selection of tenderers will be based on the degree of fulfilment of the following qualification requirements stated in Mercell under ESPD Qualification requirements: C: Technical and professional qualifications.
— The contract duration will be from signing and until 31 December 2023. The contracting authority has an option to extend the contracts for 1 + 1 +  1 year.
Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers: A Tax and VAT certificate from the tax authorities, not older than six months from the deadline for requests to participate in the tender contest.
Norwegian tenderers: a company registration certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre will be collected through the eBevis service.
Foreign tenderers: certificate of registration in a company register as prescribed in the legislation of the state where the tenderer is established.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: Norwegian tenderers must have their tax and VAT payments in order. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers: A Tax and VAT certificate from the tax authorities, not older than six months from the deadline for requests to participate in the tender contest. Requirement: the tenderer is required to be a legally established company. Norwegian tenderers: a company registration certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre will be collected through the eBevis service. Foreign tenderers: certificate of registration in a company register as prescribed in the legislation of the state where the tenderer is established.