Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-10-19
Buyer: Namsos Kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 32324600 | 64215000 | 72400000
Estimated value: 5700000 NOK

Technical requirements: Since 2016 Namsos Municipality has had a contract with NTE Marked for the delivery of a total system via fibre for all municipal residences/flats, welfare centres, and flats, as well as health institutions that covers the need for TV, broadband and telephony in each flat and in some communal rooms.
TV, broadband and IP telephony is offered to all residents in municipal housing and flats, welfare centres and institutions in Namsos and Namdalseid. Namsos Municipality currently has a delivery via fibre in each residential unit that enables the delivery of a basic TV package, with an option to purchase additional packages. Wireless broadband for each residential unit, with an option to purchase higher speed. Broadband telephony as an option. Distribution of local information via the TV system in a separate portal. The agreed speed for the new delivery is: 50/50 mgbit/s.
Namdalseid Municipality was merged with Namsos Municipality with effect on 1 January 2020, and had a similar contract with the same supplier.
Namsos Municipality would still like delivery via fibre to each residential unit that enables the distribution of equivalent systems for TV, internet, and telephony.
Current status: Namsos Municipality currently has 349 residential units (houses, flats, and welfare centres and flats), as well as 153 residential units including communal rooms in institutions.
Any objections to signing the contract must be received by 26 October 2020 at 12.00. The contracting authority intends to sign a contract after this date with NTE Marked AS. See the attached description for further information.
In 2016 Namsos Municipality published a prior information notice with an invitation to interested suppliers to a dialogue meeting. The dialogue meeting was held with the suppliers that registered their interest after the prior information meeting. Based on the feedback after the dialogue meeting, it appears, to the contracting authority's best judgement, very likely that there is only one supplier that can deliver a fibre based TV and broadband system in accordance with the drafted needs in the locations. This is due to infrastructure that is already established in large parts of the area in question. Based on this, a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice was published for the current contract. This voluntary ex-ante transparency notice is now for an extension of this contract.
Continued use of fibre in each residential unit is considered to be very important as the basis for new and more information-sensitive welfare technology systems in the future. Namsos Municipality deems an internet connection that does not have restrictions on the amount of data very important for the subscription that is offered to residents in municipal residential units.
The contracting authority therefore intends to enter into an extension of the contract with NTE Marked AS for continued delivery of a fibre-based TV and broadband system in municipal residential units for 3 new years.


Winner: NTE Marked AS
Award value: 5700000