Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-11-22
Buyer: Nord-Troms kommunene innkjøpstjeneste
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33100000 | 33140000: Medical consumables
Submission deadline: 2021-12-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement includes medical consumables, selected medical technical equipment, skincare, nutrition and incontinence products. The contract will cover ordinary operations procurement and extraordinary deliveries of medical consumables to the municipalities, including infection protection equipment.
The contract value is estimated to be above the EEA threshold. The need is uncertain. Historically, the contracting authority has procured products for NOK 6,500,000 excluding VAT per year in recent years. The volume can be both higher and lower, and will depend on, amongst other things, the contracting authority's needs, activities, budgetary situation and other framework factors in the contract period.
The estimated annual value is: NOK 7 million to NOK 8 million excluding VAT. The estimate is non-binding for the contracting authority. The maximum value, including any options and anticipated price increase: NOK 36 million excluding VAT.
Tenders cannot be submitted for parts of the assignment, and alternative tenders are not allowed. The contracting authority has considered dividing up the assignment in accordance with PPR §19-4 but has decided that this is not suitable for this type of contract.
The assignment will be regulated by the attached framework agreement with the accompanying standard agreement terms.
The framework agreement will be valid from and including 2022-02-22 until and including 2024-02-21, with an option for for an extension for up to 2 years, 12 months at a time for the contracting authority. The option years can also be exercised jointly for both of the remaining years.
The contracting authority expects that the tenderer studies the contractual terms and makes the required internal clarifications in such a way that a contract can be signed if awarded.
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 the obligations in regard to payment of VAT, tax and social security contributions in the country where the tenderer/contractor has its headquarters the (Norwegian certificate for Tax and VAT is combined and ordered from altinn.no, RF-1507,previously RF-1244) in accordance with the legislation in the country. The certificate must not be more than six 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.
Any need for support from other companies in order to fulfil this qualification requirement. If the tenderer is dependent on other companies in order to fulfil this qualification requirement, the required documentation for this must be presented. The contracting authority retains the right to collect supplementary information, bank guarantees or similar.