Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-02-14
Buyer: BIR AS
Country: NO
Region: NO0A2
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72212517 | 72212730 | 72212732
Estimated value: 30000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-03-18
Award criteria: cost, quality

Technical requirements: Is the supplier in a situation where he has been forced debt arrangement?  Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer in a bankruptcy situation? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, in the event a enforceable verdict has been convicted of corruption by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Corruption as defined in Article 3 of the Convention on Combating Corruption, Involving European Communities or European Union Member States (EUT C 195 of 25.6.1997, s. 1), and in Article 2, point 1, in the Council ́s framework decision 2003/568/RIA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (EUT L 192 of 31.7.2003,  p. 54). This rejection reason also includes corruption as defined in national law for the contracting authority or supplier.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, at the time a legally convicted verdict of participation in a criminal organisation by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of the Council ́s framework decision 2008/841/RIA of 24 October 2008 on control of organised crime (EUT L 300 of 11.11.2008, p. 42)
Has the tenderer entered into agreement(s) with other tenderers with the intention of turning the competition?

Eligibility requirements: The tax certificate shall not have significant arrears/amount owed that cannot be explained due to postponements granted by the norwegian tax authorities.  
The certificate must not be more than six months old. 
The certificate must not be older than 6 months calculated from the deadline for receipt of tenders. Foreign companies shall present certificates from equivalent authorities to the Norwegian authorities.

Description/documentation explaining any arrears.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. 
 
Tenderers must as a minimum be credit worthy.

Tenderers who have significant remarks/clarifications from the auditor on their credit rating can be rejected from the competition. Significant remarks/clarifications are defined as breaches of Norwegian law.

• A credit rating based on the most recent financial figures. The rating shall be carried out by a company licensed to provide credit information. 
• The contracting authority reserves the right to carry out a credit assessment. 
• If a tenderer has a justifiable reason for not submitting the documentation required by the contracting authority, he can document his economic and financial capacity by presenting any other document that the Contracting Authority deems appropriate.
Norwegian tenderers: Company Registration Certificate.
Foreign tenderers: 
Registration certificates in professional registers as determined by legislation in the countries in which the tenderer is established.
Tenderers shall have a satisfactory quality assurance system that manages how the company safeguards quality.
Description of the tenderer's quality assurance system. The description does not need to show that the tenderer ́s system would satisfy an official certification, but show that the system is adapted to the tenderer ́s activities according to the contracting authority ́s needs.

The qualification requirement will also be seen as fulfilled if the tenderer can present certificates issued by independent bodies as documentation that the tenderer fulfils the recognised quality assurance system or standards. In this case it is not necessary to describe the quality assurance system.
The contracting authority will evaluate which tender has the lowest total cost excluding VAT, based on the prices described in chapter 13. 

Total cost consists of the following elements:

• All costs described in chapter 13.
• Any costs for deviations that the Contracting Authority can price.
The framework agreement is complex and contains a number of different disciplines. Refer here to the description in chapter 9.1. It is important for the Contracting Authority that the Tenderer can show that they have a strong organisation that can cover the different disciplines as specified. It is necessary to have several resources in each discipline as this is a framework agreement and tenderers must have the necessary personnel in call-offs as personnel can be bound up in other agreements at the time of the call-off. If a Tenderer does not have all the necessary personnel, the Tenderer can use sub-suppliers to cover different disciplines. This must be described and a commitment statement must be enclosed with sub-suppliers who show that the tenderer has the right to use the available resources from the sub-suppliers.
The quality criterium U2 is divided into a number of elements, M1 to M6. These elements represent different disciplines that the Tenderer shall offer key personnel to. The key persons offered under the different elements are the resources that are initially intended to solve different call-offs from the contracting authority and these will be connected to the framework agreement.