Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-03-24
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Region: NO060
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45221119
Estimated value: 48577813 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The contract is for Mid-Norway, in trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal counties. The amounts in chapter D are the amounts calculated from the contract period. The contract is valid for 2025 and 2026 and it will apply for the Mid-Norway. The contract includes work on bridges, landslide shelters and other load bearing constructions (lids, tunnel portal etc.). Measures on railings and roads (lowering of road lines etc.) adjoining constructions are also included. In addition to the designed and planned maintenance measures, unforeseen measures must be expected, which are related to acute maintenance and improvement need for bridges at EV/RV in Mid-Norway. This can, for example, be improvements to joints or railing work, but also other bridge maintenance work.
The contract is for Mid-Norway, in Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal counties.
General amounts (Bridge maintenance on non-defined bridges/rush assignments) According to PPR § 7-9 (4) the award criterion in accordance with PPR § 7-9 (2) and (3) can be replaced with climate and environmental requirements if it is clear that this provides a better climate and environmental effect. The climate and environmental impact of this procurement is mainly related to • Machines • Transport of personnel and equipment • Waste management • Concrete By setting minimum requirements in the contract, we are largely ensured a climate and environmental effect and we therefore consider the climate and environmental gains in this procurement better safeguarded through such a requirement position rather than the use of climate and environment as the award criteria. In accordance with point 30.2, the contractor shall take the environment into consideration during the work, so that neighbours and affected parties will not be unnecessarily covered by dust, noise, vibrations, emissions and waste etc. In cooperation with the builder, the contractor shall contribute to ongoing information to the involved parties. Methods, machinery, equipment and materials that minimise emissions of climate gases and other negative influences on the outer environment shall be sought. The contractor shall ensure that the surroundings and adjoining road networks are not inflicted disadvantages in the form of dust and waste as a result of the contractual works. By making clear requirements and at the same time following up on these, we saw climate gains greater in this contract than using climate requirements as the award criteria. The contracting authority has therefore identified the most important climate drivers in this project that are: the use of machines, transport of personnel and equipment, waste handling and concrete. These have been evaluated and presented below. Machines Due to geological dispersion between site sites and little access to charging stations, the requirement for only electric machines on the contract will complicate the execution and grow the project without it giving any gains for climate or the environment. On some bridges in the contract, where there is a shorter distance to charging points, we have considered setting requirements for 100% use of electric machines, but as the environmental gains of this will nevertheless be insignificant, we have walked away from this. At the same time there are strict requirements for emissions from used machines and vehicles that will give a gain for climate and the environment. All diesel driven vehicles and machines used in the contract shall, at a minimum, have EURO 6 and STEP 4 approval in accordance with C4 point 6.3 Transport of personnel and equipment that the Norwegian Public Roads Administration requires in each of the years in the contract, at least 90% of all vehicles with light vehicles shall be emission free, i.e. motor vehicles that have progress based on all electric or hydrogen. Light vehicles means in this provision: Passenger vehicle (M1/M1G), light goods van (N1/N1G). This means that the contractors can in reality only compete for 10% of the vehicles, which makes up so little that it will not affect the outcome of the competition. The rest of the requirement is taken care of in chapter C2 Special Contract provisions, points 30.2 and point 34. The requirement is, therefore, already so strict that the award criteria connected to this point will not affect the outcome of the competition and that by setting award criteria it will risk that systems with greater climate and environmental impact are used. The requirement is now to comply with what is possible for the market to deliver and by setting requirements, the contract is ensured a climate and environmental gains waste management Waste management makes up a very small part of the contract and the tender sum. In reality, calculation of mark-up related to waste management will not affect the outcome of the competition. As a result the environmental footprint will be best minimised by having contractor requirements in the contract. There are mainly strict requirements for external environments and emissions when performing bridge maintenance through regulations, that it would not be appropriate to do so as a part of the award criteria. By setting minimum requirements in the contract, we have largely ensured as few climate and environmental impacts as a minimum, and we therefore consider the climate and environmental gains in this procurement to be better safeguarded through such a requirement position rather than the use of climate and environment as the award criteria. The point is taken care of in chapter C2 Special Contract provisions, point 30.4 Recycling and recycling and point 30.5 Waste Management. Tenderers shall, in their quality plan, account for procedures that cover follow-up of the contract ́s requirements and follow-up of the current regulations for their activities. The contractor shall avoid as well as minimise the consequence of the discharge Concrete concrete that is used shall as a minimum be Low carbon concrete class B or higher where special quality requirements do not prevent this. Conclusion We find based on the above mentioned justification that it is clear that it will be the better climate and environmental effect by setting climate and environmental requirements in the requirement specification than using climate and environment as an award criterion that is weighted by 30%.


Winner: BMO Entreprenør AS
Award value: 51846813
Number of bids: 3