Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-09-03
Buyer: Tolletaten
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79100000
Estimated value: 15000000 NOK
Award criteria: price

Technical requirements: The Norwegian Customs invites tenderers to an open tender contest for the purchase of lawyer services. The framework agreement for lawyer services is divided into three sub-areas (sub-contracts), where a contract shall be signed with one tenderer per sub-area.  

As a starting point, internal lawyers are used for legal issues, but at times the agency needs consultancy, quality assurance or specialist competence within the stated sub-areas below. Participation in negotiations and meetings, as well as assistance within dispute resolution and procedure can also be relevant within the requested sub-areas. The objective of the framework agreement is, therefore, to ensure the Norwegian Customs effective access to qualitatively good lawyer services as needed, in an efficient manner and on competitive terms.  

The sub areas are as follows: 
Sub area 1: Labour law and pensions. 
Sub area 2: Business Lawyer Areas 
Sub area 3: Public law areas 

Tenders can be submitted for one or several sub areas. Each sub area constitutes a competition and it will be evaluated independently of the other sub-areas. If a tender is submitted for several sub-areas, it is a prerequisite that the tenderer fulfils the qualification and award criteria requirements for each sub area.
Sub area 1: Labour law and pensions. 
Competence area: Labour law   
There can be a need for assistance within the competence area of labour law and pensions in the following areas: 
The Working Environment Act and the Government Employees Act   
The main contract in the state 
The main tariff agreements in the state 
The government special agreements  
Administrative provisions for personnel area  
Transfer of business 
Pension question
Sub area 2: Business Lawyer Areas 

Competence area: Technology and digitalisation  
There can be a need for assistance within technology and digitalisation in the following areas: 
Security 
Privacy/GDPR 
Information Security  
Cloud Services 
Intellectual property law/IPR 
IT contracts/services  
General contract law 

Competence area: Property rights   
There can be a need for assistance within property rights in the following areas:  
Assistance when entering into, extensions and termination of leases. 
Hire and lease 
Disputes in relation to rent terms 
Purchase and sale of real estate 
Disputes in relation to access to free premises, c.f. the Public Procurement Act.  
Operation and management of properties. 
Compensation Question 
Consultancy related to development plans 
Consultancy related to ongoing rent conditions. 

Competence area: Public procurements   
There can be a need for assistance within public procurements in the following areas:  
Design/quality assurance of tender documentation and contracts 
Call to action in signed contracts/changes 
Assessment of deviations and reservations. 
IT contracts/services, including Standard Contracts (the Government Standard Agreements (SSA) and the Computer Association ́s standard agreements. 
Licensing 
Various procurement and contractual problems. 
Appeals Processes
Sub area 3: Public law areas 

Competence area: General administrative law  
There can be a need for assistance within the competence area general administrative law in the following areas: 
Administrative law 
Offentleglova 
Privacy/GDPR 
Control activities (reporting of legal basis/administrative law, criminal and civil law frames)


Winner: ARNTZEN DE BESCHE ADVOKATFIRMA AS
Number of bids: 10