Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-07-13
Buyer: Festspillene i Bergen
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72212222 | 72413000: Website design services | 72415000: Website hosting services
Estimated value: 4000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-08-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: FiB would like to enter into a contract with a tenderer for website development, further development, and operation of the website.
FiB would like to have an inviting and user friendly website. The website, www.fib.no, is a central part of the festival's communication and sales work. FiB's goal is to achieve 95% digital ticket sales through its website.
Festspillene i Bergen (hereafter FiB) was established in1953 and is the flag ship amongst Scandinavia's festivals for music and stage art. FiB is organised as a foundation and receives public subsidies from the Arts Council Norway, Bergen Municipality, and Vestland County.
FiB has established itself as a centre for the north European arts stage, known for indigenous presentations, new productions within music, opera, theatre, and dance, and a large diversity in the programme. FiB takes place at the turn of the month May-June each year. Festspillene i Bergen 2023 had more than 77,000 visitors, including approx. 28,000 issued tickets.
FiB would like to enter into a contract with a tenderer for website development, further development, and operation of the website.
FiB would like to have an inviting and user friendly website. The website, www.fib.no, is a central part of the festival's communication and sales work. FiB's goal is to achieve 95% digital ticket sales through its website.
Coming events with separate programme pages in Norwegian and English are published on the website. In 2023, 118 different events were published. Approx. half of these events are free of charge. Events can currently be filtered on the basis of date, arena, and category. In addition, they can be sorted on the basis of 'family', 'outside', 'free',, and 'digital'. Articles, other information pages, and information on collaboration partners are also published on the website.
The website, www.fib.no, has had more than 88,000 users and more than 600,000 page views in the last year.
FiB has ambitions to have more visitors to its events, more first-time public visitors, and a more diverse public. In order to achieve this, FiB would like to build a new website that is more user friendly.
The contracting authority has an option to extend the contract for further development and operation for a further 1+1+1+1 year, so that the total contract duration can be total 6 years for this part of the contract.
Tenderers' experience from relevant and comparable deliveries, including website development, further development, and operation of a website. The contracting authority will particularly emphasise: Recent, relevant experience. Experience with both website development ,further development, and operation of a website in the same delivery.
Requirement: Tenderers must have their affairs in order with respect to the payment of tax, payroll tax and value added tax (VAT). Documentation requirement: Tax Certificate, not older than six months from the qualification deadline. For Norwegian tenderers: A tax and VAT certificate issued by the Tax Collection Office via Altinn. Foreign tenderers must submit equivalent certificates from their own country that show that they have an arrangement for the payment of taxes and duties. If the authorities in the relevant country do not issue such certificates, the tenderer should submit a declaration stating that all taxes and duties have been paid. The statement must be approved and signed by the tenderer's Financial Director/person responsible for finance.
REQUIREMENT: Tenderers must be a legally established company. DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT: Norwegian tenderers: Company registration certificate. The contracting authority will obtain a Company Registration Certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre for Norwegian tenderers. Norwegian tenderers do not, therefore, need to submit a such a certificate. Foreign tenderers - confirmation that the tenderer is registered in a trade register or company register in accordance with the law in the country where the tenderer is established.
REQUIREMENT: Tenderers must have sufficient financial strength to fulfil the contract. DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT: The tenderer's annual accounts including notes with the boards and auditor's reports for 2021 and 2022.
Financial strength is evaluated in relation to turnover, operating profit margin, solidity and liquidity.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: Tenderers must have their affairs in order with respect to the payment of tax, payroll tax and value added tax (VAT). Documentation requirement: Tax Certificate, not older than six months from the qualification deadline. For Norwegian tenderers: A tax and VAT certificate issued by the Tax Collection Office via Altinn. Foreign tenderers must submit equivalent certificates from their own country that show that they have an arrangement for the payment of taxes and duties. If the authorities in the relevant country do not issue such certificates, the tenderer should submit a declaration stating that all taxes and duties have been paid. The statement must be approved and signed by the tenderer's Financial Director/person responsible for finance. REQUIREMENT: Tenderers must be a legally established company. DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT: Norwegian tenderers: Company registration certificate. The contracting authority will obtain a Company Registration Certificate from the Brønnøysund Register Centre for Norwegian tenderers. Norwegian tenderers do not, therefore, need to submit a such a certificate. Foreign tenderers - confirmation that the tenderer is registered in a trade register or company register in accordance with the law in the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 4000000