Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-12
Buyer: Sandnes kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72227000: Software integration consultancy services | 72266000: Software consultancy services | 72600000
Estimated value: 15000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-06-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The aim of the framework agreement is to increase capacity and ensure access to necessary competence in the IT Department in Sandnes Municipality within IT operations and project assignments. This applies for the following service categories:
A. Capacity services in the computer room: hardware and software (physical servers, backup, storage, security, firewall, and network);
B. Infrastructure services: software based (interaction systems, database, application management, catalogue services, identity and access control, server operative systems);
The aim of the framework agreement is to increase capacity and ensure access to necessary competence in the IT Department in Sandnes Municipality within IT operations and project assignments. This applies for the following service categories:
A. Capacity services in the computer room: hardware and software (physical servers, backup, storage, security, firewall, and network);
B. Infrastructure services: software based (interaction systems, database, application management, catalogue services, identity and access control, server operative systems);
Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established.
— Foreign companies: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. The tenderer must achieve a minimum rating of ‘Credit worthy’, i.e. the tenderer must be in risk classification 5 or higher on the Experian scale.
As documentation, the contracting authority must obtain the credit evaluation Commercial Delphi Score from Experian (the contracting authority subscribes to services from Experian).
Tenderers are expected to have familiarised with registered information about the company and by submission of the tender accepts showing that the information will be obtained and form the basis of the assessment of the tenderer's financial standings.
Tenderers can attach a credit rating from a certified credit rating company showing that the tenderer fulfils the requirement. The credit assessment must be based on the last available accounting figures.
If a tenderer has valid reasons for not being able to provide the documentation requested by the contracting authority, the tenderer can document his economic and financial capacity by presenting any other document that the contracting authority deems suitable.
Tenderers must have experience from executing assignments within each of the following service categories - capacity services, infrastructure services, and client services, which must have been delivered to an equivalently complex organisation as Sandnes Municipality.
Documentation requirement: tenderers must attach a list of the most important relevant assignments the last 3 (three) years. The list must include a statement of the assignment value, dates and recipients (name, telephone number and e-mail address). It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. The references will only be contacted if required.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established. — Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate; — Foreign companies: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 15000000