Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2021-03-09
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Estimated value: 150000 NOK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust, the Division of Medicines (Norwegian: LIS) has previously published and implemented an open tender contest for tube nutrition and other medical nutrition LIS 2104 Sondeernæring og andre medisinske næringsmidler, the competition. The competition includes products in accordance with the tender documentation's annex 3 — the Price sheet. The competition for the one lot stated in this notice, the product category ‘Tube nutrition for infants and premature babies’ was unsuccessful and therefore was therefore cancelled. For the product Infatrini Peptisorb there are no equivalent products and consequently no competition.
Due to this, LIS intends to enter into contracts between the regional health trusts (the Contracting Authorities) and Nutricia Norge AS (the Supplier) as an additional contract to LIS 2104. I.e. the scope and length of the contract must follow the mentioned contract (including access to extensions and terminations), without a new competition being held for this ingredient. The health trusts that are included in the regional health authorities have options for entering into the contracts.
LIS has explored the market situation and is of the opinion that it is impossible to hold a new competition or that a supplier other than Nutricia Norge AS can deliver the product in the imminent contract period, and that the situation that has occurred is not the contracting authority’s fault, nor something that the contracting authority could foresee. LIS therefore believes that there are grounds to make the procurement without a competition. See the public procurement regulations §21-5, c.f. § 21-2, c.f. § 13-4 letter b no. 3 and letter cf. also § 13-3 letter e.
LIS requests that those who have objections to the contract award to submit feedback before the expiration of the 10 days waiting period. If no objections are received, contracts will be signed after the waiting period has expired.
The Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust, the Division of Medicines (Norwegian: LIS) has previously published and implemented an open tender contest for tube nutrition and other medical nutrition LIS 2104 Sondeernæring og andre medisinske næringsmidler, the competition. The competition includes products in accordance with the tender documentation's annex 3 — the Price sheet. The competition for the one lot stated in this notice, the product category ‘Tube nutrition for infants and premature babies’ was unsuccessful and therefore was therefore cancelled. For the product Infatrini Peptisorb there are no equivalent products and consequently no competition.
Due to this, LIS intends to enter into contracts between the regional health trusts (the Contracting Authorities) and Nutricia Norge AS (the Supplier) as an additional contract to LIS 2104. I.e. the scope and length of the contract must follow the mentioned contract (including access to extensions and terminations), without a new competition being held for this ingredient. The health trusts that are included in the regional health authorities have options for entering into the contracts.
LIS has explored the market situation and is of the opinion that it is impossible to hold a new competition or that a supplier other than Nutricia Norge AS can deliver the product in the imminent contract period, and that the situation that has occurred is not the contracting authority’s fault, nor something that the contracting authority could foresee. LIS therefore believes that there are grounds to make the procurement without a competition. See the public procurement regulations §21-5, c.f. § 21-2, c.f. § 13-4 letter b no. 3 and letter cf. also § 13-3 letter e.
LIS requests that those who have objections to the contract award to submit feedback before the expiration of the 10 days waiting period. If no objections are received, contracts will be signed after the waiting period has expired.


Winner: Nutricia Norge AS
Award value: 150000