Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-24
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48210000 | 48219000 | 48732000: Data-security software package
Estimated value: 5400000 NOK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Direct Procurement of VMware VDI Licenses, Helse Nord IKT HF [the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority ICT]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Helse Nord RHF [the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority] decided to implement immediate measures so that all employees who can, will work from home in order to protect the health workers who must work at the hospitals. It was therefore critical to quickly establish infrastructure and solutions for the increased quantity of home users in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. A delay due to conducting procurements in the normal way may be to the detriment of human life and health.
As a result of an expanded need for home offices, the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority ICT has procured VMware VDI licenses. The same system is already in operation in another health region. In the evaluation of the purchase, emphasis has been placed on the fact that the solution is proven, safe and known and that it can be deployed quickly.
A decision was made in Helse Nord that, due to the corona epidemic, home offices must be used for a large number of employees. The Northern Norway Regional Health Authority ICT therefore had to make an urgent procurement of VDI licenses in order to implement this decision. The contract value indicates that the procurement is subject to competitive tendering in accordance with the rules in the Public Procurement Regulations (PPR) Part III. Permissible procurement procedures in accordance with PPR Part III pursuant to PPR § 13-1. In accordance with PPR § 13-4 letter (a), the contracting authority can implement a direct procurement without a competition if it is impossible to implement a competition with negotiations without a prior notice in accordance with PPR § 13-3. The term ‘impossible’ means that the exception must be strictly interpreted, in the sense that it must be objectively impossible to implement a competition. In the Ministry's guidelines for public procurement regulations point 18.3.2, amongst other things, examples are given of when the provision in PPR § 13-4 may be used: ‘A particularly relevant example of this is when the contracting authority does not have time to implement a procurement with negotiation without a prior announcement according to § 13-3 letter (e), due to unforeseen conditions such as natural disasters, epidemics, etc. The current Corona virus epidemic makes it necessary to procure directly from a supplier, i.e. Without implementing a competition in accordance with § 13-3 letter e, as any delay can be detrimental to people's lives and health.’ There is no framework agreement for the purchase of VDI solutions. A normal procurement duration for the required VDI solution from VMware is estimated to take approximately three months.
The duration of the contract is 18 months. Helse Nord [the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority] will announce a national competition for home office solutions as the expiry of the contract approaches.


Winner: Dustin Norway AS
Award value: 5400000
Number of bids: 1