Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-05-24
Buyer: Hedmark Trafikk FKF
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 48481000 | 63512000 | 72212000: Platform-specific software programming services | 72416000: Application service providers | 72421000
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Hedmark Trafikk FKF and Opplands fylkeskommune [County] via Opllandstrafikk, hereafter jointly called the Contracting Authority, want to enter into a contract with Entur in order to sell their tickets through Entur's national, competition-neutral travel planner.
This does not mean that Entur is given exclusive rights to sell the tickets, but that sales through the national competition-neutral travel planner will supplement the Contracting Authority's other channels.
The contract is of low value and is therefore not subject to announcement. Regardless, we want to publish a prior information notice for the contract. The contract will be signed at the earliest 11 days after the notice date.
Hedmark Trafikk FKF and Opplands County's equivalent unit, Opplandstrafikk, are respectively the county's administrative unit for public transport.
The regional reform adopted by Stortinget [the Norwegian Parliament] means that Hedmark and Oppland counties will merge to become one county from 1.1.2020. The different administrative units for public transport will in this instance combine to become on unit.
The administrative units in Hedmark and Oppland currently have a cooperation in accordance with the Local Government Act Paragraph 27 for multiple of their electronic systems.
The administrative unit/the Contracting Authority wants to enter into a contract with Entur to sell their tickets through Entur's national, competition-neutral travel planner.
This does not mean that Entur is given exclusive rights to sell the tickets, but that sales through the national competition-neutral travel planner will be a supplement to other sales channels.
The Contracting Authority can utilise PPR [FOR] Paragraph 9-3 Letter b, No 2 to implement a procurement without a competition if, the procurement is for services that only a specific service provider can supply as competition is impossible due to technical reasons.
The prerequisite is that there are no reasonable alternatives and the lack of competition is not due to the Contracting Authority having adapted the procurement documents for a specific service provider.
Samferdselsdepartementet [the Ministry of Transport and Communication] owns EnTur outright (100 %). Entur is the only national competition-neutral system that sells tickets for all of Norway´s public transport. There are currently no comparable systems. The market has not established such a system itself, and it was only through a government project that such a channel was established.
It is also difficult to see any incentives for other service providers to develop such an offer. The intended contract will only apply to sales through two specific channels, Internet and app. A contract with Entur will not exempt the Contracting Authority's own channels or sales through other central channels, or more local channels.


Winner: EnTur AS