Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-07-08
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48332000 | 48451000 | 72212330
Submission deadline: 2022-08-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Ålesund municipality shall procure a system for competence management. Competence management is an important part of the HR process from recruitment and employment, learning and development, mobilisation and to the termination of the employment and any new recruitment.
Ålesund municipality currently lacks a system for employee development and systematic learning. The purpose of the procurement is to introduce a comprehensive competence management system that will contribute to quality assurance, digitisation and increase the efficiency in work processes related to competence management, employee development and learning.
An agreement shall be entered for the delivery of a competence management system. The agreement shall be based on SSA-L (Agreement concerning Ongoing Purchase of Services via the Internet). The agreement period is 5 years with the option for further extension.
The contracting authority will limit the number of tenderers who will be invited to submit tenders in phase 2. If there are a sufficient number of qualified service providers who fulfil the qualification requirements, a minimum of three and a maximum of five participants will be invited to submit tender offers. The selection will be based on the best qualified principle, based on a total procurement assessment of the qualification requirements.
Requirement: Tenderers must have their tax, payroll tax and VAT payments in order in accordance with the legal provisions, and tenderers must not have significant arrears.
Requirement: The financial capacity to fulfil the contract is required. A minimum requirement is that the tenderer is credit-worthy, score A in accordance with Bisnode AS using the service CreditPro, or that the tenderer has the financial capacity to implement the contract, based on the Contracting Authority’s assessment given in the submitted documentation from the tenderer.
Norwegian tenderers: After tender submission, the tenderer must give consent for TendSign to obtain and for the contracting authority to receive information about the above via Tendsign. After tenderers have submitted their tender in TendSign, they will receive a request from Altinn for consent to share the tax information. The consent is valid on an organisation level and is valid for 3 (three) months.
If a tenderer does not give consent, the tenderer must attach a tax and VAT certificate. The certificate must not be older than 6 (six) months from the tender deadline.
Any arrears or other irregularities must be justified. (Tenderers can obtain the electronic tax and VAT certificate themselves and immediately receive it by email.)
Foreign tenderers: Tenderers who are not established in Norway can present equivalent documentation issued by the authorities in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate shall preferably be translated into Norwegian, but it will also be accepted in Swedish, Danish and English.
Documentation requirement: The contracting authority will carry out an assessment of the tenderer´s finances through the company and accounting information system Bisnode AS with the service CreditPro. The contracting authority is not accepting credit ratings from other company and accounting information systems than Bisnode AS with the service CreditPro so that the Tenderers can be assessed on equal terms. Tenderers can attach other necessary information with their tender if the tenderer is of the opinion that Bisnode/CreditPro will not provide an accurate picture of the financial situation. Newly established companies: Newly established companies who have not worked up a basis for a credit assessment must enclose a declaration from a bank or similar financial institution on the company´s financial and economic standing. This also applies to foreign tenderers.
A good and well-functioning quality assurance system is required for the services that shall be provided.
Documentation requirements: A system certificate issued by accredited certification bodies must be attached.