Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-23
Buyer: Veterinærinstituttet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72246000 | 72250000: System and support services
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Tenderers are invited to a dynamic purchase system for the Veterinary Institute. The Veterinary Institute has established a programme ('New VI') for the modernisation and digitalisation of large parts of its activities when the Oslo office moves to new and modern premises in Ås. The current capacity and competence of necessary resources for planning and implementing the programme are not sufficient and the Veterinary Institute needs to procure such competence externally.
The Veterinary Institute has prepared a technological vision for 2022, which will support the digitalisation and modernisation of activities. The vision spans from the establishment of new Basic IT, the establishment of LIMS for laboratory operations and a redesign of important core components, such as a central address register for new, role-based work platforms and modernisation processes, where the technological vision will support the modernisation of research, stand-by, diagnostics and performance management. A project programme ('New VI') is being established, which will realise the modernisation in cooperation with the line organisation.
The dynamic purchase system will ensure access to the necessary capacity and competence to implement the programme and also ensure stable and proper operation of the existing infrastructure and applications.
The Veterinary Institute's ICT employees participate in different projects that have been started, in cooperation with our end-user departments. The division of responsibilities between the tenderers and the Veterinary Institute's employees will be explicitly determined on the basis of each assignment's scope, nature and length and the implementation of minor independent development projects will be relevant. Assignments under this system are expected to be carried out in the Veterinary Institute's premises. The need for assistance will be within the following disciplines (the list is not exhaustive):
Development, application management and development — frontend and backend. Adaptation and operational related services of the ICT infrastructure (AD, Exchange, Windows server, Citrix, VMware, client design, etc.).
The Veterinary Institute’s IT environment is largely based on Microsoft products and development tools. We have a self-developed Sample Journal System, written in Powerbuilder, and otherwise a portfolio of applications developed for Windows and Web platform. In addition to self-developed systems, we are responsible for the integration and adaptation ‘off-the-shelf’ and cloud services to our own system landscape.
The Veterinary Institute primarily bases self-developed systems on Microsoft .Net, ASP.NET, C#, MVC, Web-API, Windows Forms, Sharepoint, SSIS T-SQL etc. Office 365 and Sharepoint online are examples of technologies that are on the way in.
Examples of development tools are Visual studio 2017, VSTS, TFS/Git, SQL server, and monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
As stated in the tender documentation's point 1.2.3 the current system can be concluded at any given date. The Contracting Authority has decided that the system is not suitable for safeguarding the Contracting Authority's requirements. The system is therefore terminated with immediate effect. The Contracting Authority has concluded that other systems are able to cover the Contracting Authority's requirements, e.g. through parallel Framework Agreements.