Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-06-30
Buyer: Bergen kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 42961000 | 42961200 | 48000000 | 48150000 | 48151000
Submission deadline: 2023-08-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement primarily concerns Bergen Water, and the contest is designed with this as the basis and is being held by Bergen Water.
There are two other entities that have an option not procure the same system that Bergen Water chooses, without a separate contest. These are Bjørnafjorden Municipality and ØyVAR AS.
Bergen Water is responsible for the water and sewage in Bergen Municipality. We currently have a SCADA system from Cactus that manages control and monitoring of all water and sewage installations in Bergen.
The current Cactus system was procured in the 1990s and has been expanded as and when Bergen Municipality has acquired more installations and communication systems for them. The system is run on a network that is separate from the administrative network, and is not exposed to the internet. It is currently run by the contracting authority's own personnel on dedicated equipment.
We would now like to procure a new top system whilst the existing equipment is continued at a lower level.
The contract period is 5 (five) years from the date stated in the contract's page two (initiation date).
The contract will then be renewed automatically for 1 (one) year at a time, unless 24 (twenty four) months notice is given by the contracting authority, or tenderer prior to the renewal date.
If there are more than 3 tenderers that fulfil the minimum qualification requirements, the contracting authority will rank the tenderers.
The contracting authority will rank the tenderers based on the degree that the tenderers' described comparable assignments are relevant for this procurement. The 3-5 tenderers that are ranked as best will be invited to submit a tender in the contest.
There are two other entities that have an option not procure the same system that Bergen Water chooses, without a separate contest. These are Bjørnafjorden Municipality and ØyVAR AS.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. The required financial capacity will be assessed in relation to the contract's value, services, risk and length.
Documentation for Norwegian tenderers: The contracting authority will check tenderers' financial situation from DIFI's eBevis, Proff Forvalt (https://forvalt.no/) and/or via information given by Creditsafe (https://www.creditsafe.com), and can obtain further information from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Note that the tender documentation includes guidelines on how tenderers can supplement available information if wanted. Documentation for foreign tenderers: Tenderers must, upon request, submit a credit rating report from a company that has a licence from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to operate a credit information company in Norway, possibly from a company with the equivalent certification in a member country of the EU/EEA. The credit rating report must be based on updated accounting information.
Tenderers must have substantial and relevant experience. The experience must be from assignments of an equivalent complexity as the services requested in this contest.
Documentation requirement: Relevant experience is to be documented by stating a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) reference projects from the last five (5) years. The reference projects are to be added to the reference form in response to this point. Only the first five projects will be assessed if more than five reference projects are listed.
Documentation requirement: A description of the company's staff and organisation as regards fulfilment of the framework agreement's requirements and a description and the number of the tenderer's qualified personnel that the tenderer can use for fulfilment of the contract.

Eligibility requirements: Registered in the Register of Business Enterprises.