Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-04-02
Buyer: Bærum kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33196000 | 50400000 | 50421000
Estimated value: 14500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-05-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bærum Municipality, on behalf of Asker, Drammen, and Bærum Municipalities (hereafter called the contracting authority), invites tenderers to an open tender contest for a framework agreement for inspections and service of medical equipment and aids.
The framework agreement will cover the contracting authority's need for efficient and easy access to services that ensure that medical equipment and aids are inspected, maintained, and repaired, so that the medical equipment and aids are always safe and can be used without any danger.
The framework agreement will cover inspections and service of medical equipment in the following main groups:
Tenderers must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Foreign companies: verification that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must have the required certifications to carry out work on electrical equipment in Norway and must be registered in the electrical company register. Documentation of registration in the electrical Company Register in accordance with the current rules. Any other documentation of certificates or authorisations within the field in accordance with the current rules.
Tenderers are required to be economically and financially solvent, which gives the contracting authority the security that the tenderer will be financially viable throughout the entire contract period.
Taxes and duties: tenderers must have their tax and VAT payments in order in the country where they are established.
Expanded credit rating/report, not older than 3 months, from a publicly certified credit rating company with character A (credit worth) or equivalent or better rating. The report must be based on the last known fiscal figures. The date must be clear.
Companies without adequate credit rating, newly started companies with a credit score of AN, individual foreign companies or companies without reporting obligation to the Brønnøysund Register Centre will not always be able to document that the requirement is met. In such instances, they will be able to compensate with a satisfactory credit rating which provides an equivalent security for implementation ability. These alternative documents must be included with the tender.
If a tenderer has valid reasons for not being able to provide the documentation requested by the contracting authority, the tenderer can prove the economic and financial position with any other document that the contracting authority deems suitable.
The tenderer's personnel must always have the required certifications for carrying out work on electromedical equipment in Norway (cat. A and B see point 1.3)
Tenderers must have good experience and the capacity to carry out inspections and service on medical equipment and aids (cat. A and B).

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Tenderers must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirements: Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate. Foreign companies: verification that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the tenderer is established. Tenderers must have the required certifications to carry out work on electrical equipment in Norway and must be registered in the electrical company register. Documentation of registration in the electrical Company Register in accordance with the current rules. Any other documentation of certificates or authorisations within the field in accordance with the current rules.

Award value: 14500000