Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-05-14
Buyer: UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Country: NO
Region: NO072
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72243000 | 72260000: Software-related services | 72267000: Software maintenance and repair services
Estimated value: 16000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-06-16
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgement for corruption, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the convictions to be applicable? As defined in Article 3 of the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union, OJ C 195, 25.6.1997, p. 1, and in Article 2(1) of Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (OJ L 192,  31.7.2003, p. 54). This exclusion ground also includes corruption as defined in the national law of the contracting authority (contracting entity) or the economic operator. "
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgement for fraud, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the convictions to be applicable? Within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests (OJ C 316, 27.11.1995, p. 48).
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgement for money laundering or terrorist financing, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the convictions continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 1 of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing (OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 15).
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgement for participation in a criminal organisation, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable? As defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA of 24 October 2008 on the fight against organised crime (OJ L 300, 11.11.2008, p. 42).
Has the economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein been the subject of a conviction by final judgement for terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activities, by conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the convictions continues to be applicable? As defined in Articles 1 and 3 of council framework decision of 13 June 2002 on combating terrorism (OJ L 164, 22.6.2002, p. 3). This exclusion ground also includes inciting or aiding or abetting or attempting to commit an offence, as referred to in Article 4 of that Framework Decision.

Eligibility requirements: Supplier shall have sufficient financial capacity to perform the contract. The minimum requirement is rating A or equivalent.
Supplier shall be registered in a company register, register of business enterprise or trade register kept in the State of its establishment.
Supplier must have experience with similar contract performance/deliveries, especially regarding the nature and the scope of the procurement.
Price will be evaluated based on the price per hour.
The quality of the offered service will be evaluated based on the relevant competence of those who will work with the existing code.

The assessment of competence will focus on two key areas: DevOps and Code Maintenance
This procurement concerns maintenance of code and various IT services for the Divvun group, in support of their work to provide language technology tools and services to the Sámi community.