Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-03-01
Buyer: Norsk Helsenett SF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48450000 | 48700000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72230000: Custom software development services
Estimated value: 7650000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-03-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Norsk helsenett is a growing entity and needs efficient, digitalised HR processes. HR currently provide high quality services, and with better system support, HR will also be able to promise deliveries, and be a better strategic partner for the management in the entity.
An HR system will be a long term investment that must see to future requirements regarding quality and efficient systems.
The general aims of the procurement are to automate manual work processes, minimise error sources, and to reduce the costs of development, operation, updates, and integrations between individual systems.
A detailed description of the delivery is given in 'Part II SSA-L Annex 1: The Contracting Authority's requirements specification.
The contract duration is three (3) years calculated from the delivery day. The contract will then be renewed automatically for 1 (one) year at a time, unless 3 (three) months notice is given by the contracting authority before the renewal date. The tenderer has the option to terminate the contract 12 (twelve) months prior to the notification of contract renewal.
The selection will be based on which tenderers best fulfil the technical and professional qualification requirements.
The contracting authority reserves the right to make additional procurements of modules int he offered system. This also applies to modules that have new functionality in the contract period and will be seen as a natural further development of the functionality in the system.
Documentation requirement: company registration certificate or equivalent documentation showing that the tenderer is registered in a register of business enterprises, a professional register or a trade register in their country.
Qualification requirement K2 Tenderers must have adequate economic and financial capacity to fulfil their obligations under the contract.
The economic and financial standing must be documented by the following information for the legal applicant:
(a) the last approved annual accounts with the annual report and the auditor's report. The preliminary accounting figures for 2020 are requested, and any recent relevant information is to be presented;
(b) solidity assessment from a company with a licence to run a credit information company. The evaluation must not be older than 3 months from the deadline for receipt of tenders. It must be based on the last approved accounting figures and should report on the credit worthiness and degree of bankruptcy risk (bankruptcy prediction);
(c) if a legal applicant relies on another company's capacity to fulfil the requirement for economic and financial standing, this company must submit documentation in accordance with points a and b above, in addition to a signed commitment statement. Part III Annex 2 Commitment Statement Template (for any use of sub-suppliers), where it explicitly states that the company has joint and several liability to guarantee fulfilment of the contract.
Qualification requirement K3: Tenderers must have sufficient capacity and competence for the delivery and further development of the system as a cloud based service.
Qualification requirement K4: Tenderers must have good experience from equivalent deliveries and the further development of the system as a cloud based service.

Eligibility requirements: Qualification requirement K1: Tenderers must be a legally registered company. Documentation requirement: company registration certificate or equivalent documentation showing that the tenderer is registered in a register of business enterprises, a professional register or a trade register in their country.

Award value: 7650000