Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-12-15
Buyer: Nye Veier
Country: NO
Region: NO092
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45310000 | 45311000 | 45314000 | 45316000
Estimated value: 100000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2026-01-23
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Nye Veier shall plan, build, operate and maintain traffic-secure roads. Nye Veier shall contract an electro contractor for its operational and maintenance contract for roads that have been completed and that shall be completed during the contract period. The contract will be valid for 4 years, with an option for an extension for a further 3 x 1 year. The electrical contractor shall, on behalf of the contracting authority, be responsible for the operation and maintenance of electrotechnical installations. The responsibility includes all assignments and routines that are necessary for the road network to function well for the road users ́ daily use. The electro contractor's liability includes all the necessary measures to maintain the function and technical condition of the road infrastructure, and improvements resulting from loss or damage to electrotechnical installations.
Demand:
The tenderer shall be a legally established company.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- The tenderer's parent company.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Company Registration Certificate or equivalent documentation that shows that the company is legally established and registered. Norwegian companies require registration in the Register of Business Enterprises. Foreign companies are required to have registration in an equivalent company or trade register in the country where the company is established.
Demand:
Tenderers must not have tax and VAT arrears.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- The tenderer's parent company.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Tax and VAT certificate or equivalent documentation from the state where the company is established that shows that the tenderer has met the obligations to pay taxes, duties and social security contributions. 
The certificate or equivalent documentation must not be older than 6 months calculated from the deadline for applying for qualification.
Demand:
Tenderers shall document their organisation (group structure and ownership etc.).

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies to each participant in the working partnership.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Complete company map with legally correct company names and designations that show an overview of the ownership structure and group, as well as a statement of the country in which the different companies in the group belong.  The company chart shall include 
- parent company and other shareholders, 
- subsidiary and associated companies, and 
- ownership of these companies (including ultimate ownership). Listed companies shall provide information on a minimum of ten largest shareholders. The documentation shall be updated at the time of submitting the application for qualification.
Demand:
Tenderers who will use the capacity of other companies to fulfil the qualification requirements shall demonstrate this. 

If the tenderer supports themselves on other entities to fulfil the requirements for economic and financial capacity, joint and several liability is required between the companies for the execution of the contract. 

If the tenderer supports themselves in other entities to fulfil the requirements for education and professional qualifications or the requirements of relevant professional experience, these entities shall carry out the services or construction work that requires such qualifications.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor 
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies to the working partnership.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
The contracting authority ́s template shall be used for the delivery of a written and signed commitment statement from each committed company.
The commitment declaration shall document that the tenderer has the right to use the necessary resources at the committed company.

If the commitment statement concerns fulfilment of qualification requirements for economic and financial capacity, the obliged company shall, in addition, issue a special declaration of joint and several liability for the execution of the contract, which is delivered with the application.

The tenderer shall confirm in the ESPD form whether they will use the capacity of other entities.
The obliged companies shall submit a separate ESPD form.

Tenderers shall also submit an organisation chart or other written documentation with an overview of all the committed companies. The documentation shall describe how the qualification requirements in total are fulfilled and how the committed companies will contribute to ensuring satisfactory execution of the contract.

Eligibility requirements: Demand:
The tenderer shall be a legally established company.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- The tenderer's parent company.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Company Registration Certificate or equivalent documentation that shows that the company is legally established and registered. Norwegian companies require registration in the Register of Business Enterprises. Foreign companies are required to have registration in an equivalent company or trade register in the country where the company is established.
Demand:
Tenderers must not have tax and VAT arrears.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- The tenderer's parent company.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Tax and VAT certificate or equivalent documentation from the state where the company is established that shows that the tenderer has met the obligations to pay taxes, duties and social security contributions. 
The certificate or equivalent documentation must not be older than 6 months calculated from the deadline for applying for qualification.
Demand:
Tenderers shall document their organisation (group structure and ownership etc.).

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies to each participant in the working partnership.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Complete company map with legally correct company names and designations that show an overview of the ownership structure and group, as well as a statement of the country in which the different companies in the group belong.  The company chart shall include 
- parent company and other shareholders, 
- subsidiary and associated companies, and 
- ownership of these companies (including ultimate ownership). Listed companies shall provide information on a minimum of ten largest shareholders. The documentation shall be updated at the time of submitting the application for qualification.
Demand:
Tenderers who will use the capacity of other companies to fulfil the qualification requirements shall demonstrate this. 

If the tenderer supports themselves on other entities to fulfil the requirements for economic and financial capacity, joint and several liability is required between the companies for the execution of the contract. 

If the tenderer supports themselves in other entities to fulfil the requirements for education and professional qualifications or the requirements of relevant professional experience, these entities shall carry out the services or construction work that requires such qualifications.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor 
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies to the working partnership.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
The contracting authority ́s template shall be used for the delivery of a written and signed commitment statement from each committed company.
The commitment declaration shall document that the tenderer has the right to use the necessary resources at the committed company.

If the commitment statement concerns fulfilment of qualification requirements for economic and financial capacity, the obliged company shall, in addition, issue a special declaration of joint and several liability for the execution of the contract, which is delivered with the application.

The tenderer shall confirm in the ESPD form whether they will use the capacity of other entities.
The obliged companies shall submit a separate ESPD form.

Tenderers shall also submit an organisation chart or other written documentation with an overview of all the committed companies. The documentation shall describe how the qualification requirements in total are fulfilled and how the committed companies will contribute to ensuring satisfactory execution of the contract.
Demand:
Working partnerships/joint venture shall highlight how the qualification requirements are fulfilled.

Who shall meet the requirement:
Working partnership/joint venture

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Organisation chart or other written documentation with an overview of all participants in the community.

Each participant in the group shall submit a separate ESPD form.

Fill in the contracting authority ́s template for the working partnership/joint venture that shows how the group fulfils the qualification requirements and how the group will organise its activities to ensure satisfactory execution of the contract.
Demand:
The tenderer, the tenderer's parent company or sub-suppliers shall not, in the last five years calculated from the deadline for applying for qualification, be legally convicted or have accepted a wreath of punishable conditions as stated in the procurement regulations § 24-2 (2). 

Violations committed by a person in the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body, or who has the competence to represent, control or make decisions in such bodies, juxtaposed with errors or transgressions committed by the tenderer himself. 

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- The tenderer's parent company.
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Printout from the penal register in its home country for the companies covered by the requirement. If such a printout is not issued in the tenderer ́s home country, the contracting authority will require a declaration of absence of rejection reasons, submitted under oath.

If the tenderer, or persons with whom the tenderer is identified, has been legally convicted or has accepted a writ for violations mentioned above in their home country or other country, the tenderer shall disclose this, and possibly document which remedial measures have been carried out as a result of the violation.
Demand: 
Tenderers shall be registered in DSB ́s electrical company register. 

Who shall meet the requirement: 
-Vendor 
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement.
- If several suppliers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the group.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Printout from the electrical company register.
Demand:
Tenderers shall be certified in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 or equivalent quality assurance standard based on relevant European standard series, which are certified by accredited bodies.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor 
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), at least 1 of the participants in the working partnership must fulfil the requirement.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Copy of a valid certificate from an accredited body.
Demand:
Tenderers shall be certified in accordance with EMAS, ISO 14001:2015, Miljøfyrtårn for relevant industry, or equivalent environmental management standard based on relevant European standard series, certified by accredited bodies.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor 
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies to at least one participant in the working partnership.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Copy of a valid certificate from an accredited body.
Demand:
Tenderers shall be credit worthy with a status of at least "satisfactory", or equivalent.

Who shall meet the requirement:
-Vendor
- Companies that the tenderer will use through a commitment statement to fulfil any qualification requirement.
- If several tenderers participate in the competition jointly (e.g. joint venture/working partnership), the requirement applies for each participant in the working partnership.

How to document fulfilment of the requirement:
Credit rating, not older than 6 months prior to the deadline for applying for qualification. The credit rating shall be issued by a certified credit rating company, which has a licence to operate within the EU/EEA area.

The contracting authority reserves the right to obtain an independent credit assessment from a certified credit rating company, which has a licence to operate within the EU/EEA area, to confirm that the requirement is met.