Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-05-27
Buyer: Direktoratet for e-helse
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 4000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
In 2017 the Directorate for eHealth signed a contract with CareCome AS for the delivery, development and maintenance of a national system for the administration, management, storage and accessibility of
An encoder and terminology. The contracts are built on the government's standard SSA-T (adaptation contract) and SSA-V (maintenance contract). The adaptation contract has an original value of NOK 5.9 million, and the maintenance contract has a contract value of approx. NOK 9 million over 10 years. This was somewhat below the announced contract value, which was NOK 17.5 million.
The tender contest will be held in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17 June 2016, no. 73 and the Public Procurement Regulations from 12 August 2016, no. 974. The system that is delivered by CareCom AS is, as a starting point, a proprietor system. There has been a need in the implementation phase of the project to order additional functionality that was not a part of it.
The Directorate for eHealth needs to order further additions in the form of increased scope for the development of a new code catalogue. The increased scope is based on needs that are not adequately met by the system that was originally offered. The increased scope will cover the development of necessary functionality in the proprietor system, as well as a new web portal. The additions can be described as 'backend' and 'frontend', of which only the latter addition can be delivered by a third party. The total value of the additional work, excluding maintenance costs, is approx. NOK 2.4 million, including development and project management, with frontend development estimated to approx. NOK 1 million. The addition for backend must be delivered by CareCom AS as the system is proprietor and does not, therefore, allow third parties to be used.
Continuation from point II.1.4) Short Description: The original contract. As the system is proprietor, the Directorate for eHealth has to use CareCom AS. This has been dealt with as a legal direct
Procurement/additional delivery, with referral to the public procurement regulations §13-4 letter b and 28-1 (1) letter c, as only CareCom AS can carry out the work.
The Directorate for eHealth has assessed and reasoned that the delivery of a frontend system can be made as an amendment to the existing contract with CareCom AS. The reason is that the cost and time perspective would increase by using a third party, compared to using CareCom AS. Furthermore, the interface between the backend and frontend system could be complicated by using a third party. Considerable extra costs and challenges as regards complexity mean that the contracting authority can undertake this as an amendment to the existing contract. 2 alternative legal bases have been identified for this, ref. the public procurement regulations §28-1(1) letters c and d.


Winner: CareCom A/S
Award value: 4000000