Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2022-09-28
Buyer: Petroleumstilsynet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72227000: Software integration consultancy services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72268000: Software supply services
Estimated value: 4344000 NOK

Technical requirements: The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign a contract with Unit4 for migration of Unit4 ERP to Unit4 Cloud and ongoing service procurements over the internet of Unit4 Cloud. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign the contract in week 43, with a start-up of the contract/service in Q1 2023.
Unit4 has sole rights, i.e. Intellectual property rights for Unit4 Cloud and is thereby the only supplier of these services. Therefore, a tender contest for the contract is not relevant.
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign a contract with Unit4 for migration of Unit4 ERP to Unit4 Cloud and ongoing service procurements over the internet of Unit4 Cloud. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign a contract in week 43.
Unit4 has sole rights, i.e. Intellectual property rights for Unit4 Cloud and is thereby the only supplier of these services. Therefore, a tender contest for the contract is not relevant cfr. PPR 13-4 b) point 3. It is not economically or practically justifiable to begin using another financial system.
As part of this contract the supplier will provide access to, operate and offer user support for the following parts in Unit4 ERP:
- Unit4 ERP (previously known as Unit4 Business World and Agresso) which will be migrated to Unit4 Cloud
- 2 non-production environments. The servers used for the SaaS Azure environment must be located in Norway.
Can change the number of modules and users in the system, as well as develop the system and made adaptations. Ongoing option to extend the contract duration.
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign a contract with Unit4 for migration of Unit4 ERP to Unit4 Cloud and ongoing service procurements over the internet of Unit4 Cloud. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway intends to sign a contract in week 43.
Unit4 has sole rights, i.e. Intellectual property rights for Unit4 Cloud and is thereby the only supplier of these services. Therefore, a tender contest for the contract is not relevant cfr. PPR 13-4 b) point 3.
Based on the government's IT strategy, which encourages use of the cloud, and Unit4's expressed cloud strategy, we envisage that we will use Unit4's SAAS system ERP-X in a few years. This voluntary ex-ante transparency notice is not, however, for the transition to ERP-X, a separate procurement will be made at a later date. This voluntary ex-ante transparency notice is only for an upgrade to our current UBW installation, which is currently a local installation split between several servers, so that it is run in Unit4's cloud environment. The contract will apply to operation, user support, and maintenance.
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway currently has an operations contract with Unit4 for UBW. The transition to cloud based operation is to be seen as an upgrade in which our current system is moved as is to Unit4's cloud, and that the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway enters into a new contract for the operation of this, which is adapted to the new operational concept. Only Unit4 can carry out this transfer.


Winner: Unit4 AS
Award value: 4344000