Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-09-20
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 18424000 | 18424300 | 18930000 | 22000000 | 24000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer. The chosen tenderer must be able to deliver all the requested products in the price form, and must have a satisfactory assortment of other products that are included in this range of products.
We reserve the right to purchase special products that are not in the tenderer's catalogue/range from other suppliers.
Dispensers for new buildings or when completely renovating entire buildings can be purchased outside of this agreement.
A list of user sites is attached to the tender documentation. The agreement will cover all participating municipalities/companies in their entirety, and more user sites may therefore be added during the agreement period.
The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer. The chosen tenderer must be able to deliver all the requested products in the price form, and must have a satisfactory assortment of other products that are included in this range of products.
- cleaning products and equipment - hand soap/disinfection - paper/plastic - catering - light sources - batteries - different types of disposable gloves
We refer to the competition "Consumables (including catering products) 2023 (2)". The contest is now cancelled pursuant to the Public Procurement Regulations (PPR) § 25-4 (1).
Pursuant to PPR § 25-4 (1), the Contracting Authority can cancel the tender contest with immediate effect if there are justifiable reasons.
It has been determined through practice that a contracting authority is obliged to cancel a contest if an error has been made that can have affected either participant interest or the outcome of the contest, and this error cannot be corrected in any other way than by cancelling the contest, see, amongst others, HR-2019-1801-A, section 85, and the EFA law court's statement in case E-16/16, section 106.
Two days before the planned tender deadline, a notice was sent out that the tender deadline had been changed. According to the notice, the deadline was moved from Thursday 14 September 2023 to Thursday 21 September 2023. This deadline extension had to be withdrawn because the tender management system requires at least 3 business days to ensure that the translated announcement reaches the TED database in time. The tenderers were not notified that the deadline had been cancelled until several hours had passed. This caused tenderers to make arrangements for the wrong tender deadline shortly before the tenders had to be submitted.
The uncertainty surrounding the deadline may have affected the outcome of the contest. The contracting authority that this gives us a justifiable reason to cancel the contest.
An error of this nature can only be corrected responsibly be cancelling the tender documentation and holding a new contest. There is a justifiable basis to cancel the contest with immediate effect.
We hope that there is understanding for our decision. The contracting authority apologises for the inconvenience for interested parties. Only minor changes will be made to the tender documentation, and the contest will be republished shortly.