Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-09-20
Buyer: Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48121000 | 48132000 | 48219300 | 48332000
Estimated value: 2500000 NOK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Resource Management of Personnel and Equipment at the Politiets nasjonale beredskapssenter [the National Police Operations Centre, Norway]
Politiets helikoptertjenesten og livvaktstjeneste [the Police Helicopter Service and Bodyguard Services] currently utilises the application OpsCom, supplied by OpsCom Systems for handling, control and certification of events, equipment and resources. The helicopter services also uses the application for reporting to Luftfartstilsynet [the Civil Aviation Authority].
The procurement concerns moving the service from the cloud to the police network and development of the functionality for use at the other national emergency response resources.
The Police Helicopter Service and Bodyguard Services currently utilises the application OpsCom, supplied by OpsCom Systems for handling, control and certification of events, equipment and resources The helicopter services also uses the application for reporting to Luftfartstilsynet [the Civil Aviation Authority].
As a part of the establishment of the National Police Operations Centre, Norway, where one gathers the helicopter service, the emergency response forces, the bomb squad and the crisis/hostage negotiators, an expansion of the application for comprehensive resource management is sought.
The development involves moving the application from the cloud to the police network and adaptation to named resources, hereunder, resource management of both personnel and equipment.
Work on the police network entails a requirement for authorisation. It cannot be expected that foreign personnel are authorised for this work in accordance with the Norwegian Security Act.
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security is the project owner for the establishment of the National Police Emergency Response Centre. The procurement will be implemented for the project. In the operational phase it is relevant to hand over the contract to to transfer the contract to the Politiets IKT-tjenester [the Norwegian Police ICT services].
The contract is for public-private cooperation where the State cover a maximum of half of the development costs of the new functionality. Opscom assumes part of the development cost and retains the intellectual property rights.
The legal basis for direct procurement is Public Procurement Regulations § 13-4, Section 1, letter b og c.
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security is of the belief that this concerns services that only Opscom Systems AS can deliver due to technical reasons and that the supplier has the unilateral right to the source code of the existing software.
It is of great importance to the contracting authority to uphold continual operation on the existing functionality for the helicopter service and that the development safeguards the existing approval and requirements set by the Civil Aviation Authority.
The appeals deadline/waiting period for the selected procedure is 1.10.2019. If there are no legitimate appeals lodged against the selected procedure, a contract will be signed after the expiry of the appeals deadline/waiting period.


Winner: Opscom systems AS
Award value: 2500000