Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-04-17
Buyer: Havforskningsinstituttet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71240000 | 71300000 | 71318000: Lighting engineering services | 71333000 | 71336000
Submission deadline: 2018-05-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The background for this procurement is that the government has decided to allocate money to the design and construction of a new coastal research vessel in the national budget for 2017/2018. This is part of the follow up of Havforsknings instituttets [the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research’s] report nº 17/2015 — Review of.
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research’s future infrastructure need for the collection of marine data, where the need for a new coastal research vessel is highlighted as one of the needs.
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research has received the task of initiating and implementing the procurement of a new coastal research vessel.
It has been decided that the procurement of a new coastal research vessel shall be divided into 2 procurements, 1 procurement for design (design contract) and 1 procurement for construction, equipping, testing and delivery of the vessel (Ship Building Contract). This procurement comprises only procurement of design / engineering design of a new coastal research vessel.
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research shall procure the design / engineering design of a new coastal research vessel.
The objective of the procurement is to develop a design (initial design) for a new coastal research vessel in accordance with set requirements in the prepared functional requirement specification, cfr. Annex 1: Functional Requirement Specification.
“Initial design” means the vessel arrangement, dimensions, form, type and construction and which describes the vessel in sufficient detail that the shipyard can calculate the price and delivery time, and submit binding offers on construction, building, equipment, testing and delivery of a new coastal research vessel.
Thus the procurement concerns preparation of design up until the Notice of a competition for the procurement of a ship building contract with a shipyard, including:
— preparation and further development of General arrangement based on Annex 1: Functional Requirement Specification,
— preparation of detailed building specification in accordance with SFI group system, based on Annex 1: Functional Requirement Specification, where characteristics, capacities and other requirements of the vessel are specified,
— definition of “construction documentation”, i.e. specification of the scope of the drawing deliveries and other design documentation that the tenderer is obligated to prepare and deliver in the role of a subcontractor to the the shipyard in accordance with a separate contract between the tenderer (designer) and the shipyard. The construction documentation (design delivery), that shall be delivered by the tenderer to the shipyard under a separate contract, shall include all drawings and technical documentation that is necessary for construction, building, furnishing and equipment of a new coastal research vessel, refer to the attached tender documentation.
The prepared design as stated above will be part of the tender documents for the Notice of a competition for the procurement of a contract for building, equipping, testing and delivery of the vessel (Ship Building Contract).
The above given start and end dates are tentative dates for contract award notification and contract signing. The contract applies from signing of the contract until the parties have honoured all of their obligations in accordance with the contract, see the tender documentation Appendix 3 — Standard Contract with Annex.
There is an option for the implementation of model test, see the attached tender documentation. The Contracting Authority is free to decide exercising of the above named option.
Mandatory Requirement: the tenderer must have submitted tax imposed duties to the tax authorities and paid VAT, tax and employer contribution. It is a requirement that the tenderer must not have arrears for payments of VAT, tax and employer contribution. If the tax certificates show arrears, justification must be enclosed, as well as an approved repayment plan authorised by the tax authorities.

Eligibility requirements: Tax certificate: Mandatory Requirement: the tenderer must have submitted tax imposed duties to the tax authorities and paid VAT, tax and employer contribution. It is a requirement that the tenderer must not have arrears for payments of VAT, tax and employer contribution. If the tax certificates show arrears, justification must be enclosed, as well as an approved repayment plan authorised by the tax authorities. Documentation requirement: — the selected tenderer shall deliver a tax certificate for VAT and a tax certificate for tax, issued via Altinn, the Tax Office or the Tax Collection Office. This requirement only applies to Norwegian tenderers, — the tax certificate shall not be more than 6 months, from the tender deadline. Company Registration Certificate: The supplier shall be a legally established company and registered in a trade register, commerce register or company register as mandated in the law in the country where the supplier is established. Documentation requirement: — norwegian companies: company registration certificate from the Register of Business Enterprises, — foreign companies: verification that the company is registered in a trade index, commerce register or business register as specified in the legislation of the country in which the company is established.