Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-08-06
Buyer: Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30200000 | 30236200 | 32400000 | 32413100
Estimated value: 700000000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: DSS is currently responsible for providing a secure and operationally stable ICT platform and ensuring user friendly services and systems for ministries on a common ICT platform. From and including 01.01.2025, the Ministries Digitalisation Organisation (DIO) will take over this function and thereby also ownership of these framework agreements. 

The aim of the procurement is to cover DIO and other included entities ́needs for computer centre and network equipment with the accompanying services.

Based on consumption in the last 4 years, the estimated total amount of the procurement is NOK 300 million during the maximum contract period (seven years). 

Due to great uncertainty connected to the future need for the project New Government Block and Joint ICT Programme/Establishment of the Digitisation Organisation (DIO), the procurement is required to have an economic framework that takes into account this uncertainty. Based on this, the procurement will be announced with a combined maximum financial framework of NOK 700 million. Nok 200,000,000 for sub-contracts NOK 1 and NOK 500 million for lot 2. Construction phase 1 (BT1) is planned to be completed and put to use by the end of 2025. Construction phase 2 (BT2) has the provisional moving date in 2029, an estimate that is considered uncertain. Construction phase 3 (BT3) can also receive deliveries under this contract if this occurs during the contract period.   

In order to ensure unified, stable and continuing deliveries through BT1,BT2 and BT 3, a contract period that extends beyond the procurement regulations ́ main rule on maximum duration of four years for framework agreements is necessary. 

Based on this, a framework agreement(s) will be signed for 2 years. The contract can be extended 5 times for 1 year, so that the maximum contract period is 7 years.
Complete annex 5 Annex 1 to the contract, per sub-contract. 

The price will be evaluated based on the total evaluation sum consisting of prices connected to (1) case and (2) hourly rates for assistance as stated in the price forms tab 2 "Summary #Case and hourly rates".
Quality

Under this criteria there are the following sub-criteria with the following weighting

• General requirements (15%)
• Product groups (40%)
o For sub-contract 1, the product groups 1,4,5 and 6 will be weighted more than the other
o For sub-contract 2, product groups 1,3 and 5 will be weighted more than the other
• Services (35%)
o Operational assistance and other consultancy services will be weighted more than the other. 
• Privacy and security (10%)
The waiting period and information on lodging appeals were given in the notification letter in accordance with provisions in the published tender documentation.
Framework agreement(s) will be signed for 2 years. The contract can be extended 5 times for 1 year, so that the maximum contract period is 7 years.


Winner: Netsecurity AS
Number of bids: 3