Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-04
Buyer: Statsbygg Hovedkontor
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 72226000: System software acceptance testing services | 72227000: Software integration consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2017-06-07
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: A minimum of 3 — three — and a maximum of 7 — seven — parallel framework agreements will be signed per contract area based on this competition, if the competition gives a basis for this.
Tenders can be submitted for either both or one of the contract areas. Tenderers shall tick which contract areas in the tender form the tender is for. See point 2.1 for further information on the contract areas.
The framework agreement shall apply for all of Statsbygg, but it is the ICT department that will administer the framework agreement and place orders with the framework agreement suppliers.
There are always several ongoing internal ICT projects in Statsbygg. In order to carry out these projects, there will be a need to supplement Statsbygg's own resources with capacity and/or expertise within several areas. These areas are briefly described below:
- Project management — The project management need is within various ICT areas and the resources, in addition to having solid project management competence, are required to have IT competence and good experience from public entities. Statsbygg is implementing the ICT projects in accordance with DIFI's project guidelines.
- Project support — this will typically be administrative support for the project manager, system architect or other project participants.
- Implementation of ICT procurements — this will typically be both support and management of procurement processes connected to ICT.
- Contract audits — assistance with the review of ICT contracts before they are signed or for major changes for phase transitions, important milestones, approvals etc.
- Process management and process improvements — analysis of work processes and preparation of the basis for the requirement specifications for ICT procurements.
- Preparation of requirement specifications — prepare functional and technical requirements that offered systems must fulfil. Assist in the preparation of user stories in order to describe requirements for suppliers in a continual delivery model (agile). They must be aware of best practice and have used recognised methods, tools and frameworks.
- Test management — consultancy and support for projects and deliveries for establishing a test strategy and test plans in projects and other delivery courses. A decision has been made to use the tool Zephyr as a support tool for the test processes in Statsbygg. Zephyr is an additional module for the JIRA tool. Testing here means that all new or changed parts of a system (system components) shall go through a structured, predictable and traceable test system, in which the actual result is assessed against the expected result. This applies to both system changes as a consequence of deviations (errors or shortcomings) or changes for new or changed functionality.
- System management — assistance with the management of ICT systems. Typically assignments will be reporting and qualifying errors and changes, dialogue with suppliers during system tests, acceptance testing for error recovery and developed changes as well as assistance with production setting.
The framework agreements will be signed for a period of two years with the Directorate of Public Construction and Property retaining the right to extend the contract for a further two years, one year at a time. The framework agreement period will be automatically renewed unless Statsbygg gives written notification that the options will not be triggered. The maximum contract period is 4 years.
Several ICT projects and assignments will be ongoing in the contract period, in which there will be a need for technology support within the competence areas described below. In order to carry out these projects, there will be a need to supplement Statsbygg's own resources with capacity and/or expertise within several areas. These areas are briefly described below: