Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-01
Buyer: Øvre Eiker kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48210000 | 48517000 | 48600000 | 48810000: Information systems | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2020-05-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The tender contest applies to licensing advice, rent, purchase, maintenance, supplement of licenses and software to the following participants (business partner), see section 1.1.1.
The aim of the procurement is to get licence consultancy services, reduce procurement costs and ensure checks on licensed software.
Lier municipality: approx. NOK 3 000 000 per annum, excluding VAT. Øvre Eiker municipality: approx. NOK 3 000 000 to NOK 3 500 000 per annum, excluding VAT. The value is subject to uncertainty as the portfolio is currently being audited. Hole municipality: approx. NOK 760 000 per annum, excluding VAT. Modum municipality: currently the contracting authority does not have the financial basis to estimate the annual value. Ål municipality, Gol municipality, Hemsedal municipality, Nesbyen municipality, Flå municipality and Hol municipality: approx. NOK 3 200 000 per annum, excluding VAT for Microsoft-lisences. The contracting authority does not have the exact figures for the scope in relation to individual procurements and other licence categories. However, the procurement of licences amounts to an annual total of NOK 15 100 000 excluding VAT.
The value is an estimate and must therefore be considered non binding. See the procurement documents for further information.
The contracting authority has considered splitting up the assignment in accordance with PPR §19-4, and has decided that, for this type of procurement, it is suitable to split it up into groups.
Tenderers are invited to submit tenders for one or more groups. Sub-tenders and alternative tenders cannot be submitted within each group.
Group 1: Licence administration of Adobe licences with licence reviews, assistance related to changes, as well as other natural assignments connected to licence administration.
Group 2: Licence administration of Citrix licences with licence reviews, assistance related to changes, as well as other natural assignments connected to licence administration.
Group 3: Licence administration of Microsoft licences with licence reviews, assistance related to changes, as well as other natural assignments connected to licence administration.
Group 4: Licence administration of VMware licences with licence reviews, assistance related to changes, as well as other natural assignments connected to licence administration.
The contracting authority reserves the right to divide the contract between multiple tenderers and to accept all or parts of a tender.
Documentation requirement: requirement for certificate of paid VAT, tax and social security contribution. A certificate issued by the competent authority in the tenderer's country, confirming that the tenderer has met their obligations in regard to payment of VAT, tax and social security contributions in the country where the tenderer/contractor has their headquarters the (Norwegian certificate for Tax and VAT is combined and ordered from altinn.no, previously RF-1244) in accordance with the legislation in the country. The certificate must not be more than 6 months old.
The contracting authority is not allowed to request the certificate if he has already received it, in accordance with the regulations § 17-1(4). If you have submitted a tax certificate to the contracting authority and it is still valid at the time of the tender submission for this contract the tender submission deadline, for this contest, you are not obliged to submit a certificate now. If this is the case, state when and to whom the certificate was previously submitted. You can, however, enclose the certificate voluntarily if you want.
Requirements regarding the tenderer's economic and financial standing: The financial capacity to fulfil the contract is required (ESPD: Part IV B.58-3).
Documentation: the contracting authority will assess finances through the company and accounting information system Proff Forvalt (www.forvalt.no). The contracting authority reserves the right to obtain supplementary information about the tenderer's finances.