Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-01-08
Buyer: Bodø Kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO071
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85300000 | 85311200 | 85312000
Estimated value: 310000000 NOK
Award criteria: quality

Technical requirements: This procurement will be carried out in accordance with the Act from 17 June 2016 no. 73 on public procurements (LOA) and the regulation 12 August 2016 no. 976 on concession contracts parts I and III (special services and health and social services). The procurement will be carried out almost the procedure rules as for an open tender contest in the public procurement regulations (FOA) part II. All interested tenderers have the possibility to submit tender offers in the competition.
The contracting authority needs to enter into service concession agreements to ensure the municipality users user controlled personal assistance (BPA). The BPA services shall be able to include both existing users in the municipality, as well as any new users who are added during the contract period. There is a political decision on free user choice in the municipality. Free choice of users means that users who have BPA individual decisions from the municipality can freely choose between private tenderers who the municipality has a service concession agreement with or municipal operations (BPA services carried out by the municipality itself). The contracting authority needs to enter into agreement with private tenderers in order to ensure the free choice of users. The tenderers who sign a service concession contract shall be equal and the user in accordance with the free choice of user choice (and any change) supplier shall be chosen. The user ́s choice shall not be subject to any limitations other than that the choice must be made between tenderers who have a service concession contract with the municipality or public services. The user shall not have to justify his choice and the choice must not be reviewed. Once a user has chosen the preferred provider, the tenderer is obliged to provide the services. The tenderers who enter into service concession agreements with shall, after an order, be obliged to provide the services within the framework of the applicable laws and regulations, the municipality ́s individual decisions on BPA and the applicable contract(s). The service user controlled personal assistance (BPA) shall be provided in accordance with: The Health and Care Services Act § 3-8 User Managed Personal Assistance The Patient and User Rights Act § 2-1 d) Right to user managed personal assistance Contracting Authority awards BPA services through individual decisions pursuant to the Health and Care Services Act of 24.06.2011.
The award of a service concession contract will only be decided on the basis of the tenderer ́s fulfilment of set qualification requirements and shall-requirements in the requirement specification. All tenderers who fulfil the set requirements in the competition, without taking significant reservations and/or deviations, will be awarded a service concession contract.

The set requirements that are subject to assessment only deal with conditions at the tenderer
(qualification requirement) and quality aspects (shall-requirements in the requirement specification). 

The requirement specifications include requirements that ensure safeguarding of the contracting authority ́s and the municipality ́s users ́needs.

The current price for the BPA service (hourly rate) is fixed and calculated from the KS Main Agreement. See Annex 4 in NS 8435-2017 - Price and price terms for further information on the fixed price model.


Winner: Aberia Omsorg AS
Number of bids: 14