Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-09-14
Buyer: Grimstad kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45220000 | 71200000 | 71210000 | 71220000 | 71221000
Estimated value: 120000000 NOK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The service must cover the contracting authority's total need for technical consultancy services for municipal activities. The service must cover the contracting authority's ongoing need for expert consultancy services in the contract period.
The contract will be signed in accordance with NS 8402:2010 'General contract provisions for consultancy assignments remunerated according to hours worked', with the additions and changes that are specified and stated in the general contract provisions and the contract documents in this contract. The service must cover the contracting authority's total need for technical consultancy services for municipal activities. The service must cover the contracting authority's ongoing need for expert consultancy services in the contract period. The service includes all disciplines that are required in order to assist the contracting authority in the contract period. The service includes: buildings, property, roads, water and sewage, land use, and other technical consultancy services for municipal activities. The list is not exhaustive, but it illustrates the breadth of possible areas that are included in the service. The service covers different projects of a varying nature, size, cost, duration, and degree of difficulty in the contract period. Dates will be given for the individual services in the call-offs. The consultancy services will mainly be according to hours spent. The contracting authority will clarify the disciplines, services, scope, amounts and limits that are to be provided by the Tenderer in each call-off. The Tenderer must provide all of the disciplines stated in the price sheet. See the attached tender documentation for a detailed description of the service.
The scope if uncertain and it can vary a lot in the contract period. A significant part of the uncertainty can be connected to any future assignments that are currently unknown or are awaiting a final decision. The expected annual market value can, for example, vary from NOK 7 000 000 to NOK 30 000 000 a year. The procurement's total value is estimated to be up to NOK 120 000 000 over a 4-year period.
If the service requires the use of other and special disciplines to the solve the concrete assignment, which the tenderer does not have, the tenderer must provide these services through hiring in personnel in accordance with the mark-up stated in the price sheet.
The contracting authority will have the full right to go outside this framework agreement and hold independent contests for individual projects that altogether, including architectural and consultancy services and complete execution and contract work, are estimated to exceed NOK 1 000 000 excluding VAT. The tenderer will be able to participate in the contest for such assignments. Any procurement of the service from the tenderer would have to be adapted to existing and current contracts that the contracting authority is bound by. The announced and estimated total value of the procurement is very uncertain. Extraordinary measures can be put into place in order to stimulate trade during and after the corona situation (Covid-19). Particular attention is put on the fact that the framework agreement's estimated volume can be considerably reduced if extraordinary measures are not started.
Any appeals can be brought before the contracting authority within the waiting period, which will be announced when the contract is awarded. The contracting authority will then consider the appeal. If an appeal is not successful, the tenderer will be free to appeal to the Appeals Board Secretariat, or bring the matter before a Norwegian court of law.


Winner: Rambøll Norge AS - Bygg og Arkitektur
Award value: 120000000
Number of bids: 7