Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2021-12-17
Buyer: Norges Sjømatråd
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 30211300 | 48000000 | 48100000 | 48211000 | 48700000
Estimated value: 6000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Sjømatrådet [the Norwegian Seafood Council] will phase out the current SAS 9.4 environment and SAS VIYA 3.5 to a cloud-based solution on SAS VIYA 4.
Since 2010, the Norwegian Seafood Council has developed a comprehensive data integration system (DI) based on three main sources of data. The trade statistics from over 50 countries for seafood export and import, panel and sales figures for seafood consumption in over 10 countries and consumer surveys in more than 25 countries. The system is partially automated for receiving and reading of source data. The source data consists of txt, spreadsheets, DBF, CSV and priority formats such as SAS, JMP and SPSS.
Reporting takes place internally in the Norwegian Seafood Council through extensive use of SAS OPA cubes, R. JMP, visual analysis and externally with the help of visual analysis, Rest API, FTPS and PDF reports.
All data integration currently takes place on the SAS 9.4 platform where source data is integrated and uploaded to the data warehouse (ETL). Data is then uploaded to SAS VIYA 3.5 and reported in SAS® Visual Analytics.
Sjømatrådet [the Norwegian Seafood Council] will phase out the current SAS 9.4 environment and SAS VIYA 3.5 to a cloud-based solution on SAS VIYA 4.
The Norwegian Seafood Council has established a comprehensive insight system for Norwegian exporters and all others vertically integrated in the seafood industry and internally in the Norwegian Seafood Council.
The development of all sources stretches back to establishment of the Export Commission for fish, which later became the Norwegian Seafood Council. It was first in 2010 that the Norwegian Seafood Council invested in the SAS BI system for DI and reporting.
Over the years, large resources have been used internally to build the classification system for the data sources which again results in a star model (SAS) making it possible to report across which countries we report on.
When seen in the light of the basic investments that have been made, replacement costs would be significant and disproportionate in relation to the value of the extension. The Norwegian Seafood Council also do not consider it appropriate to replace the software with the limited resources the Norwegian Seafood Council has and cannot see an upside in building a new data integration and reporting system.
This is the background for why the Norwegian Seafood Council intends to renew the licence contract for data integration and the reporting system with SAS Institute AS for three years. SAS Institute AS has the sole rights to the licences and the contract will be signed pursuant to the public procurement regulations, section 13-4 b no. 3.
The Norwegian Seafood Council intends to enter into contract with the SAS Institute AS on 29.12.2021, 12:00, unless objections to the contract are received. If there are objections, they can be sent by email to the Norwegian Seafood Council, c/o Jan Erik Johnsen: jejg@seafood.no by 28.12.2021, 12:00.


Winner: SAS Institute AS
Award value: 6000000