Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2021-05-19
Buyer: Helse Vest IKT
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 30210000 | 48000000 | 48600000 | 48610000: Database systems | 48611000: Database software package
Estimated value: 62000000 NOK

Technical requirements: The procurement concerns platform for Oracle databases in Helse Vest IKT. The procurement concerns both hardware, software and licence conditions.
The procurement is carried out without competition on the basis of exemption for works that may only be carried out by a particular contractor in the Public Procurement Act and the Public Procurement Regulations § 13-4 letter b) No 2. Helse Vest IKT has conducted market research of available solutions in the EEA market, and concluded that competition for current IT solution is not possible for licensing reasons.
The procurement concerns new software for Helse Vest IKT's platform for Oracle databases. Helse Vest IKT has several large systems in production which require Oracle database technology, and due to compatibility with existing solutions, an technical environment for Oracle databases must be offered.
Helse Vest IKT has investigated various solutions and models in the market for the new platform, including the transition to cloud-based platforms in line with Helse Vest IKT's need for functionality. To ensure sufficient stability and flexibility in the platform over a period of around 10 years, it is necessary for Helse Vest IKT to set requirements for license flexibility.
Helse Vest IKT believes that only the supplier Oracle Norge AS, with the solution Oracle cloud@costumer, meets Helse Vest IKT's needs in this procurement. This is because Oracle's license terms outside of Oracle cloud /cloud@customer grant the right to use the software, but it is not a subscription service. Subscriptions to Oracle licenses are only available in Oracle's own cloud/cloud@customer, and can thus not be offered by other suppliers in the market. Other suppliers will have to follow Oracle Norge AS' license terms in order to achieve the same delivery, and these license terms mean, among other things:
• the Processor metric is used to license all processors where Oracle programs are installed and/or running;
• add-on products such as the Enterprise Options and Management Packs must match the number of licenses of the associated product;
With these conditions, no other suppliers will meet the minimum requirement for flexibility with regard to license conditions, which Helse Vest IKT needs and requires for the new solution.
Although other providers will be able to offer some flexibility, other suppliers must comply with Oracle's license terms, which will mean that the suppliers must be covered for peak load for database and all options. These differences between the suppliers possible license conditions mean that it will not be possible to carry out a competition between several suppliers for the system. It is therefore technically impossible to carry out competition, cf. the Procurement Regulations § 13-4 letter b No 2.


Winner: Oracle Norge AS
Award value: 62000000