Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-08-26
Buyer: Finanstilsynet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 71621000 | 72100000 | 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services
Estimated value: 4300000 NOK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The financial supervisory authority of Norway intends to enter into a service contract with Gartner Norge AS for research, analyses and consulting services for IT.
— acknowledged analytical models for ranking and positioning of providers in various markets and areas of technology,
The service provider's methods must be based on acknowledged and well defined methods based on best practices for classic challenges within IT and the organisation of IT, such as:
The service provider shall be able to provide a membership-based contract with a fixed price for the various services and with well defined deliverables such as:
— free access to analyses, methods, templates and tools included in the various programmes and available on the Internet through dedicated portals,
— offer analyses for the strategic level, including reference architectures, as well as specific, tactical advice on implementation
— option for creating a network with other members who offer equivalent services or has an equivalent role.
— coaching of both a strategic and a tactical nature according to fixed patterns and the need for an IT senior manager and for selected IT management roles,
— network meetings with other IT managers from the public sector, both in Norway, Scandinavia and internationally,
— consultancy services to end-user organisations (‘Users of technology’ — not suppliers) based on interview, analysis and daily contact with other equivalent organisations, to amongst other things, prepare best practice within different areas in the application of technology in the organisations,
— monitoring participants/suppliers in different technology markets, for example when ranking suppliers within a given market, assessing of the supplier's own development based on approved methodologies,
— monitoring available technology trends, analyses of the impact the technology can have in various parts of society, analyses of the various phases a technology undergoes from an idea to commercial availability in the market and in daily use in organisations,
— the service provider shall provide consultancy services in close conjunction with and based on access to the same research and analysis materials offered through the subscription services.
The service agreement period is from 31.8.2019 to 1.9.2020. Exclusive right for the financial supervisory authority of Norway to extend the contract for 1 year +1 year.
Based on the contracting authority's investigations and knowledge of the market, the chosen tenderer is the only tenderer in Norway who can cover the contracting authority's need and who offers a combination of subscriptions, consulting and professional conferences in ICT strategic consulting on this level. It is only by entering into agreement with Gartner that financial supervisory authority of Norway gains access to Gartner's unique knowledge database where information is collected from analysts in over 25 countries. The ability to control access to different information in strategic ICT through such subscription, which can be provide information, both in disciplines and different levels in a discipline is also unique to Gartner.


Winner: Gartner Norge AS
Award value: 4300000
Number of bids: 1