Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-07-28
Buyer: DEPARTEMENTENES DIGITALISERINGSORGANISASJON (DIO)
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72200000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 1200000000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The Ministry of DigitalIsation and Management is in the process of creating a new department that from 1 January 2025 shall have overall responsibility for providing digital services to the ministries fellowship: The Ministries DigitalIsation Organisation (DIO). A joint ICT platform ("New System") shall be established that shall be delivered to the customers that a decision has always been made for DIO to provide services for. The establishment and implementation of the New System will be gradually and is expected to be carried out over a transcription period of 2-3 years before the existing platforms are phased out. The new system shall be based on a hybrid system design that can both offer services from a dedicated/private infrastructure and from public/public cloud services. The new System shall be able to provide services that fulfil the requirements for screened, unclassified information systems and other unclassified information systems. The scope of the procurement is two parts: 
1) Establishment and service launch of central infrastructure and platform operation, hereafter called sub-area 1;
2) Support for the transcription project, hereafter called sub-area 2.
Both sub areas include an option to procure assistance for operation support on existing platforms in the transcription period to make key personnel available to assist in the establishment of the New System. The procurement shall result in two separate contracts, one per sub-area. The procurement will be carried out in accordance with FOSA.
• Price for the Establishment Project 
• Price for the Basic Service and Orderable Services during the contract ́s lifetime. 
• Price for assistance
• Price to cancel the contract
• The contracting authority ́s cost for the Tenderer ́s use of the Contracting Authority ́s licences

• Financial significance of any deviations to the contract terms.
• Service scope and quality
o Service Quality
o Service catalogue
o Service level and standardised compensations
• Implementation ability
o Management model and administrative terms
o Organisation, management and coordination
o General description and general plan
o The planning phase
o Implementation
o Test and Approval
• Commercial risk
o Price terms (not prices)
o Provisions on contract completion
o Risk in terms of agreement as well as standard licence terms, data processing agreement and security contract.
The Ministry of DigitalIsation and Management is in the process of creating a new department that from 1 January 2025 shall have overall responsibility for providing digital services to the ministries fellowship: The Ministries DigitalIsation Organisation (DIO). A joint ICT platform ("New System") shall be established that shall be delivered to the customers that a decision has always been made for DIO to provide services for. The establishment and implementation of the New System will be gradually and is expected to be carried out over a transcription period of 2-3 years before the existing platforms are phased out. The new system shall be based on a hybrid system design that can both offer services from a dedicated/private infrastructure and from public/public cloud services. The new System shall be able to provide services that fulfil the requirements for screened, unclassified information systems and other unclassified information systems. The scope of the procurement is two parts: 
1) Establishment and service launch of central infrastructure and platform operation, hereafter called sub-area 1;
2) Support for the transcription project, hereafter called sub-area 2.
Both sub areas include an option to procure assistance for operation support on existing platforms in the transcription period to make key personnel available to assist in the establishment of the New System. The procurement shall result in two separate contracts, one per sub-area.
• Fixed price for the start-up project.
• Price for resources
• Financial significance of any deviations to the contract terms.


Winner: Sopra Steria AS
Award value: 1200000000
Number of bids: 3