Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-12-23
Buyer: Direktoratet for forvaltning og økonomistyring (DFØ)
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48218000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 50000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-01-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
DFØ is the government's professional body for financial management, good decision bases, organisation and management in the government, and procurements in the public sector. DFØ is also a provider of joint services for administration within wages and accounts.
DFØ needs to enter into a framework agreement for the purchase of Microsoft licenses, etc. The purpose of the framework agreement is to ensure that DFØ manages their contracts with Microsoft in an expedient and economically efficient manner. A framework agreement will be entered into with one tenderer that can act as DFØ's Licensing Solutions Provider (LSP) during the contract period.
The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Managemen [Direktoratet for forvaltning og økonomistyring (DFØ)] needs to enter into a framework agreement for the purchase of Microsoft licenses, etc. The purpose of the framework agreement is to ensure that DFØ manages their contracts with Microsoft in an expedient and economically efficient manner. A framework agreement will be entered into with one tenderer that can act as DFØ's Licensing Solutions Provider (LSP) during the contract period.
DFØ currently has an Enterprise Agreement (EA) for the management and purchase of licenses that runs until 30.04.2023. The tenderer must be able to handle ordering licenses within the entire Microsoft contract portfolio, including EA, MPSA and MCA contracts, and assist the contracting authority with services related to license management. Furthermore, the tenderer must assist as needed with renegotiating existing contracts and entering into or creating other Microsoft contracts such as MPSA and MCA.
Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Updated Company Registration Certificate. DFØ will obtain the relevant information itself from the company register.
Verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register, trade register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Credit rating based on the last known accounting figures, not older than three months. The rating must be carried out by a credit rating company with licence to conduct this service.
Comparable assignments means assignments for public contracting authorities wherein the tenderer is an LSP.
An overview of the tenderer's up to three most relevant assignments in the last three years. The overview must include a description of the assignments and information on the contract's value, date of delivery, and a contact person (name, telephone number, and email address).
It is the tenderer's responsibility to confirm relevance through the description. Tenderers can document experience by referring to the competence of personnel at disposal for this assignment, including experience that has been acquired while personnel performed services for another supplier.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Norwegian tenderers: Updated Company Registration Certificate. DFØ will obtain the relevant information itself from the company register. Foreign tenderers: Verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register, trade register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 50000000