Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-11-05
Buyer: Oslo Kommune, Byrådsavdeling For Utdanning
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 70330000 | 75110000 | 75111000
Estimated value: 830000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-12-05
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: Is the tenderer in a bankruptcy situation? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers in such a situation is obligatory in accordance with the current national law with no exceptions, when the tenderer is still able to carry out the contract.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, in the event a enforceable verdict has been convicted of corruption by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Corruption as defined in Article 3 of the Convention on Combating Corruption, Involving European Communities or European Union Member States (EUT C 195 of 25.6.1997, s. 1), and in Article 2, point 1, in the Council ́s framework decision 2003/568/RIA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (EUT L 192 of 31.7.2003,  p. 54). This rejection reason also includes corruption as defined in national law for the contracting authority or supplier.
Is the supplier in a situation where he has been forced debt arrangement? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers in such a situation is obligatory in accordance with the current national law with no exceptions, when the tenderer is still able to carry out the contract.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, at the time a legally convicted verdict of participation in a criminal organisation by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of the Council ́s framework decision 2008/841/RIA of 24 October 2008 on combating organised crime (EUT L 300 of 11.11.2008, p. 42).
Has the tenderer entered into agreement(s) with other tenderers with the intention of turning the competition?

Eligibility requirements: The tenderer shall be a legally established company.
                Documentation requirements:
                Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate.

Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract.
                Documentation requirements:
                The contracting authority will obtain a credit rating from Experian on its own initiative.

The Contracting Authority reserves the right to obtain the company's last three Annual Financial Statements including notes, the Board's Annual Reports and Audit Reports, as well as new information of relevance to the company's fiscal figures.
Tenderers shall have a quality assurance system that ensures compliance with the current laws and regulations, municipal decisions and equivalent.
                Documentation requirements:
                Valid documentation for the company's quality assurance system issued by independent bodies which certify that the tenderer fulfils certain quality assurance standards.

Alternatively: The table of contents of the tenderer ́s own quality assurance system.
Tenderers shall have experience from similar assignments with an equivalent extent (number of departments and children).

Similar assignments are referred to as:

- operation of nursery schools privately through grants or as municipal nursery schools.
                Documentation requirements:
                A short description of nurseries that the tenderer has run in the last three years, including information on the size and length of time that the nurseries have been in operation.
Quality of service
Information security and privacy
Fixed price
In order to promote climate and environmental considerations in this procurement, it is considered most appropriate to set absolute minimum requirements for the procurement. These requirements are either fulfilled or not fulfilled. If they are not fulfilled, this will result in rejection of the tender offer. 

The starting point is that the relevant market for the procurement will be mature to fulfil the requirements. The fact that tenderers will consistently fulfil the requirements suggests that they would score equally on the terms by setting them as award criteria, and it would, therefore, be difficult to distinguish them, as is the intention of setting up the award criteria just. Should there be, however, differences between the score on climate and environment, a tenderer who offers poorly on this criterion will still be able to win the contract as a result of a higher score on other criteria that together outweighs the low score on climate and the environment. This can mean that the climate and environmental achievement sought has not yet been achieved.

It is therefore considered that it will give a better climate and environmental effect by setting up the requirements in the requirement specifications, as, in the contracting authority ́s view, it will to a greater extent ensure the effect achievement in this way.

The requirements are included in annex 1 (the Contracting Authority's need), further details on requirements 4.1 - 4.4.
The aim of the procurement is to facilitate private actors in the nursery sector, in line with the City Council ́s ambitions. The procurement is being carried out to ensure the private operation of two nurseries in the Frogner (BFR) district and two nursery schools, the Old Oslo district (BGO).

Separate contracts will be signed for the BGO and for BFR. Each district is responsible for following up their own delivery.

The actual nurseries in Frogner are in operation and there is a need to maintain the offer for children who have places in nurseries so that the municipality can meet the need for nursery places in the area. The relevant nurseries in Old Oslo are located in a city development area and are important for the municipality to be able to offer social infrastructure to those who move into the new built dwellings.

The contracting authority would like to enter into a contract with one tenderer per district. The estimated value of each contract is stated below:

District Estimated Value

Bydel Gamle Oslo NOK 250 million.

Frogner district NOK 580 million.

The contracting authority draws attention to the fact that the estimated value is based on the contract ́s provisions on fixed prices and the current distribution between large and small children, cf. the contract ́s point 8.2
2 + 2 years.
            The contracting authority has an option to extend the contract for a further two years + two years on verbatim terms.