Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-03-03
Buyer: Folketrygdfondet
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30100000 | 30200000 | 30210000 | 30213000
Estimated value: 44000000 NOK
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: The procurement will be made in accordance with the Public Procurement Act dated 17 June 2016 no. 73 and the public procurement regulations dated 12 August 2016 no. 974 (above the EEA threshold value). The procurement shall be carried out in accordance with the negotiated procedure after the prior notice, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations § 13-1(2). After this procedure, all interested tenderers can submit a request for participation in the competition. The tender contest starts with a qualification phase and the Contracting Authority will prequalify the tenderers. Only tenderers who fulfil the qualification requirements and who have been invited by the Contracting Authority will be able to submit a tender. The contracting authority plans to invite three to five tenderers to submit tenders for the competition, provided that a minimum of five requests are received to participate in the competition. The decision on which tenderers are invited to submit a tender will be based on the selection criteria in point 5. All invited tenderers will have their tenders evaluated based on the award criteria stated in point 6. The contracting authority reserves the right to reduce the number of tenderers so that tenderers with the three- five best tenders after the initial evaluation will be invited to negotiations. After the first round of negotiations, two to four tenderers will be able to submit revised tenders before the second round of negotiations. Two or three tenderers will have the opportunity to join the Due Diligence system and thereafter have the opportunity to submit a final tender. Reference visits will be made at the remaining tenderers in the final phases of the competition. After the final tender has been submitted and a reference visit has been made, the evaluation of the tenders will be made and the contract will be awarded. Attention is defined that tenders that include significant deviations from the procurement documents shall be rejected in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations § 24-8(1) b. The competition documents will be published in the DOFFIN database and in the TED database.
In spring 2024, Folketrygdfondet ́s board of directors decided to turn the fund ́s ICT operational model from internal operations with the hire of individual consultants for support in individual assignments, to the purchase of full service responsibility from an operational partner. This initial procurement includes services for digital workplace and user support, infrastructure operation, network operation as well as 24/7 operations including MDR for cyber security. The establishment will involve standardising the Fund's PC park, moving the computer centre and hardware replacement on most of the current network equipment. Folketrygdfondet would like to enter into a contract for general operation of Folketrygdfondet ́s ICT platform, which includes five service towers as indicated in the figure below. Note that application management, data management and analysis management service towers are not included in this procurement. See Annex 1 for detailed requirements for the service towers, as well as for the establishment and completion of the services.
For this criteria, emphasis will be put on quality in the service towers: - User support, - Digital workplace, 24/7 operation, - Hybrid Infrastructure, - Hybrid Network As well as quality in: - The establishment project As well as quality across the towers: - Documented and relevant references - Industry experience, financial sector - Standardised and industrialised services - Continuous modernised and improved services - the tenderer's business model and corporate structure - Correct division of responsibility offered in the services and full responsibility for the deliveries - the tenderer's management systems and audit reports - Anchoring at the tenderer's management.
For this criteria, emphasis will be put on the tenderer ́s account of the following points: - Sustainability of the services for digital workplaces, including life cycle management of hardware. - Sustainability in the services for infrastructure, including a sustainable data centre. - Sustainability of the services for networks, including life cycle management of network hardware. - Management system and the tenderer's ambition for sustainability. Reporting, including the tenderer's climate footprint and the contracting authority ́s climate footprint through the services.
Total price for the offered services that include: - Ongoing prices (typically invoiced on a monthly basis) for all services in ordinary operations (which are not additional services). - The price for cancellation in ordinary operations - the price for the establishment. - The price for cancellation in the establishment phase. - The contracting authority ́s estimated amount of additional services.


Winner: Orange Business Digital Norway AS
Number of bids: 5