Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-10
Buyer: Bærum Kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114400: Vans | 60000000 | 60100000 | 60112000 | 60120000
Estimated value: 65000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2020-04-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bærum Municipality, c/o nursing and welfare, health and social services, as well as child development, nurseries, hereafter called the contracting authority, invites tenderers to an open tender contest for a framework agreement for the procurement of transport services. The tenderer must transport users in Bærum Municipality to different work, school and activities, as well as nurseries, preferably within the municipality's borders. The adult user group has reduced mental and/or physical abilities. The children receive special educational help in nurseries.
The contracting authority intends to enter into a framework agreement with a tenderer that can cover all three areas.
The municipality's entities will be obliged to procure from the tender with whom the framework agreement is entered into and the selected tenderer will, after orders are placed by the individual organisations, be obliged to deliver in accordance with the framework agreement.
This procurement does not cover transporting users in day centres at municipal residential and treatment centres that the municipality currently has its own contract for.
In addition, the contracting authority will have an option to extend the contract for a further 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 year on the same terms, so that the maximum contract period is until 31 January 2027.
Foreign companies: proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the tenderer is established.
Finances — tenderers are required to be financially solvent, which gives the contracting authority the security that the tenderer will be financially viable throughout the entire contract period. A creditworthiness of score A (creditworthy) is required to be eligible for participation in the contest. Tenderers with a lower rating may be rejected.
Documentation requirement: extended credit rating/report, not older than 3 months, from a publicly certified credit rating company, which includes a credit rating of the tenderer — typically given by a letter, grade or a brief text, as well as an explanation of this. The report must be based on the last known fiscal figures. The date must be clear.
Companies without adequate credit rating, newly started companies with a credit score of AN, individual foreign companies or companies without reporting obligation to the Brønnøysund Register Centre will not always be able to document that the requirement is met. In such instances, they will be able to compensate with a satisfactory credit rating which provides an equivalent security for implementation ability. These alternative documents must be included with the tender.
If a tenderer has valid reasons for not being able to provide the documentation requested by the contracting authority, the tenderer can prove his economic and financial capacity with any other document that the contracting authority deems suitable.
Tenderers are required to have an organisation that has the capacity to fulfil the contract (for all three areas).
— an overview of minibuses, wheelchair vehicles and employees (including drivers) that can be used on the date the tender is submitted (including reserve material).
In addition documentation must be provided that the capacity can be increased if the tenderer is awarded the contract.
This documentation must be delivered with the tender to give the contracting authority security that the requirement has been met.
Experience: tenderers must have relevant and broad/comprehensive experience from equivalent assignments in the last 3 years.

Eligibility requirements: Company Registration Certificate — tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian companies: company registration certificate. Foreign companies: proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 65000000