Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2018-10-16
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71620000 | 71621000 | 72316000: Data analysis services | 73200000 | 79000000

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration would like to enter into a Framework Agreement with a tenderer for the next national transport plan. The Framework Agreement will apply for analyses and reviews that span several departments for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the Railway Directorate, the Norwegian Coastal Administration and Avinor for assignments under 350 000 NOK including VAT. A dynamic procurement system will be established for assignments above 350 000 NOK including VAT. The Framework Agreement will therefore only apply to assignments that are estimated to be under this amount. There will be separate competitions for method development.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration would like to enter into a Framework Agreement with a tenderer for the next national transport plan. The Framework Agreement will apply for analyses and reviews that span several departments for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the Railway Directorate, the Norwegian Coastal Administration and Avinor for assignments under 350 000 NOK including VAT. A Dynamic Procurement System will be established for assignments above 350 000 NOK including VAT. The framework agreement will therefore only apply to assignments that are estimated to be under this amount. There will be separate competitions for method development.
Nye Veier AS is included in the cross-department work and will, therefore, contribute financially in this collaboration. This applies to call-offs that are made as part of solving cross-department review assignments in the NTP collaboration.
A consequence of Nye Veier AS joining the management group is that the distribution of expenses in the review assignments will be split between several actors. The need for analyses, however, will not change by Nye Veier AS joining the collaboration. The content and size of the assignments will not be changed to any significant degree. As Nye Veier AS was not included when the contracts were announced, it means that, as a starting point, they cannot make call-offs on the contract, in accordance with the public procurement rules. Changes must therefore be made to the contracts so that Nye Veier AS can make call-offs on them.
When the Framework Agreement for assistance with analyses was announced, we did not have any guidelines from the Ministry of Transport stating that Nye Veier AS or other actors would be in the management group for NTP. The contract was, therefore, signed with the same contracting authorities as for previous procurements of consultancy services. It was signed with one tenderer, with the invoice, as a main rule, being split in according to a distribution key described in the contract.
As this is a change we could not foresee, we believe that it is a change in accordance with the public procurement regulations § 28-1 d. This changes does not change the character of the contract. Neither will be extent be affected to any significant degree, it will be far under the 50 % that the FOA has set as the limit in §28-1 e. We therefore believe that this is a change that we can make to the contract, in accordance with the FOA §28-1 e.


Winner: Transportøkonomisk Institutt