Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-06-10
Buyer: Ålesund kommune
Country: NO
Region: NO0A3
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services
Award criteria: quality

Technical requirements: The procurement shall be carried out in accordance with the Public Procurement Act dated 17 June 2016 (LOA) and
public procurement regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974. part I and part IV. The contract award will
be undertaken after the procedure open tender contest cf. FOA § 8-3.

The contracting authority plans, as a starting point, to carry out the competition without having a dialogue with tenderers that go further than clarifications/corrections. The contracting authority will make a final decision regarding dialogue after the tender deadline has expired. Dialogue through negotiations can therefore be carried out if the contracting authority, after the tenders have been received, considers it appropriate. Emphasis is put on the fact that no tenderers can expect a dialogue on their tender and must, therefore, submit their best tender.

Call-offs on the framework agreement will be made during mini-competitions.
The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into parallel framework agreements with qualified tenderers, with the intention of covering the customers ́needs for the procurement of doctors to the health and welfare sector in participating municipalities, in accordance with the requirement specification.

The temporary staff services shall cover the municipalities ́ extraordinary need, where the municipalities themselves are unable to provide temporary staff.

The following municipalities participate in the agreement: Ålesund, Sula, Giske, Haram, Sykkylven, Stranda, Fjord, Vestnes, Vanylven, Volda, Ørsta and Herøy.
Call-offs on the agreement will be made via mini-competitions, where both price and quality will be evaluated in accordance with the need for each assignment. In addition to the quality of each assignment, it is important for the contracting authority that the tenderer has a robust organisation, with suitable routines for safeguarding the obligations included in this agreement. The contracting authority will therefore evaluate the tenders on the basis of the tenderer ́s description of the following points: 
- What routines the tenderer has for quality assurance of temporary staff.
- What routines the tenderer has for following-up temporary staff.
- What routines the tenderer has for administration of assignments.
- What routines the tenderer has for receipt and follow-up of deviations.
- The tenderer's quality assurance system.

Tenderers shall describe how they comply with the requirement specifications ́ requirements for quality assurance and follow-up of temporary staff, cf. the requirement specifications points 3.3 and 3.4, what routines they have for administration of assignments and reception and follow-up of deviations, cf. the requirement specifications 3.2 and 3.3. Tenderers shall describe their quality management system. If a tenderer uses a third-party certified system, it is sufficient to enclose a system certificate. 

Evaluation: 
The award criteria will be assessed based on the tenderer ́s description of the award criteria. A total procurement assessment of the described system will be carried out during the evaluation.
The contracting authority uses the exclusionary provision in the PUBLIC Procurement Regulations § 7-9, and does not prioritise climate and environmental considerations in accordance with the third section. An assessment is made that the procurement has a climate footprint and an environmental impact that is immaterial. In DFØ ́s guidelines on climate and environmental considerations in public procurements, refer to various examples of procurements that typically have such low climate intensity that the small one is considered immaterial. A central theme is whether the main performance "according to nature" leads to climate footprint or environmental impact that is not immaterial, or that the main service has direct consequences for a final product that, in its nature, has climate footprint and/or environmental impact that is not immaterial, for example, consultancy consultancy services in the construction industry.

In the relevant procurement, the contracting authority assumes that the procurement has a climate footprint and an environmental impact that is immaterial. We point out that the service mainly consists of desk work and examinations of patients in suitable local areas. The main performance is the temporary staff ́s work efforts. We cannot see that the work will form the basis for any physical final product that provides climate footprint or environmental impact. The contracting authority therefore finds exceptions from the main rule for setting up climate and environmental considerations as the award criteria in the competition.


Number of bids: 19