Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-06-26
Buyer: Grimstad kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO092
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 45215000: Construction work for health buildings | 45215100 | 71300000 | 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 5000000 NOK
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: The procurement will be made in accordance with the current Law 17 June 2016 no. 73 on public procurements (LOA) and the regulations 12 August 2016 no. 974 on public procurements (FOA) parts I and III.

The procurement will be carried out as a negotiated procedure after a prior notice, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations § 13-1 (2). This procedure will be initiated with a qualification phase (phase 1), in which tenderers shall submit documentation of fulfilment of the qualification requirements. All interested suppliers have the option to submit a request for participation in the competition. Of the qualified tenderers, five will be invited to submit tenders in the next stage of the procurement procedure (phase 2), cf. point 9.2. Only tenderers who fulfil the qualification requirements and who are invited will be able to submit a tender (phase 2).

After receipt of tenders in phase 2, all tenders will be subject to an initial evaluation before the contracting authority will call for negotiations. 

The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract without negotiations.

The contracting authority plans to hold negotiations with one or several of the tenderers who submit tenders for the competition, provided that a sufficient number of tenders are received. The negotiations can be held in meetings, in writing or oral, and can apply to all sides of the tenders. The selection of who will be negotiated will be made after an assessment of the award criteria. It is planned to have negotiations with a maximum of 3 suppliers. 

Negotiations will not be carried out if the contracting authority, after the tenders have been received, considers that negotiations are not appropriate. Dialogue in the form of corrections/clarifications will be carried out if needed.

After negotiations and any updated tenders, the final evaluation of the tenders will be made and the contract will be awarded.
The main aim of this procurement is to cover Grimstad municipality ́s need for builder and process consultancy services in connection with. establishment of universitetssykehjemmet. The assistance shall primarily be provided by two main resources: one consultant who will primarily assist with project, process and construction consultant (builder consultant) and one consultant who shall primarily assist with health and health process consultancy services (health professional consultant).

A dedicated support resource shall also be offered beyond the two main resources, which will primarily work under the builder consultant. In addition there will be a need to draw on other competence from tenderers within disciplines such as law, finance, public procurements, technical disciplines, climate and environment etc.

Initially assistance shall be provided in connection with the concept evaluation phase, where relevant assignments will i.a. be designing documents for political meetings, project and process management, quality assurance, follow-up of progress and finance, as well as general project and process advice for the municipality's project managers.

The contract includes an option to extend the assistance further for the collaboration, execution and completion phase of the project for the establishment of universitetssykehjemmet.

See part II for further information on the contents of the procurement.
The offered main resources ́ competence and experience will be assessed under this criteria.
Under this criteria, the tenderer's solution description will be assessed, in which the tenderer shall describe how it can add value to the project, how it will contribute to the project's success, and how it commits to carrying out the work to ensure the best possible safeguarding of the contracting authority ́s needs.

In the evaluation, concrete measures and the degree of obligation will be conditions that will be emphasised.
The offered hourly rates and attendance costs are assessed under this criteria.


Winner: WSP Norge  AS
Award value: 1
Number of bids: 9