Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-09-08
Buyer: Det kongelige hoff
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 32426000 | 48220000 | 48222000 | 48312000 | 72212222
Estimated value: 10000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-10-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The aim of the procurement is to establish a contract for the procurement, development, and delivery of a publication system (CMS), as well as a new design for the Royal Family's new websites. Interested tenderers must submit a tender for the design and publication system together, possibly in cooperation with sub-suppliers.
The contracting authority wants the publication system delivered as a cloud service, which involves the services provided over the internet from the tenderer's platform and associated software and storage of data.
Tenders must include all licence costs for the use of the system, operation, and maintenance, access to support and continual assistance, training site editors, delivery of a web hotel (server, lines), and registering services. Moving content, graphical design, and development of the new websites are also part of this procurement.
The offered system must be in accordance with the current requirements for personal protection and universal design.
- Option: Further development of the system, and/or development of several websites connected to the Royal Family in cooperation with DKH.
Requirement: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers: Company Registration Certificate. Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be older than 6 months from the qualification deadline.
Requirement: Tenderers must have adequate financial implementation abilities. Documentation requirement: Tenderers must present a credit rating from a reputable credit rating agency. The credit rating must not be older than 3 months calculated from the qualification deadline. DKH reserves the right to obtain further documentation and assessments on the company's financial situation and use this in the qualification evaluation.
Technical and professional qualifications: Tenderers must have experience from comparable assignments. Comparable assignments are in this context defined as assignments of a similar scope and content as the delivery DKH requests, i.e., design and development of websites and a publication system. Documentation requirement: Description of the tenderer's up to 5 most relevant assignments in the last 3 years. The description must include a statement of: 1. The contracting authority (name, telephone no. and e-mail address of the recipient). 2. The assignment's value. 3. Date (from/to). 4. Description of the service/the delivery with links, pictures, or equivalent. The deliveries must document experience with the design and development of websites and a publication system. It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. DKH reserves the right to contact the listed contact persons for references.
Requirement: Tenderers must have experience from work with universal design of websites. Documentation requirement: Description of the tenderer's 2 most relevant assignments in the the last 3 years. The description must include a statement of: 1. The contracting authority (name, telephone no. and e-mail address of the recipient). 2. Date (from/to). 3. Description of and a link to the projects that document that the tenderer has experience in fulfilling the universal design requirements. It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. DKH reserves the right to contact the listed contact persons for references.
Requirement: Tenderers must have sufficient capacity to provide the requested services and systems. Documentation requirement: An account of how the tenderer will ensure sufficient capacity for the implementation of the procurement and prioritising of resources, both related to the design and development of websites and publication systems.
Technical and professional qualifications: Tenderers must have experience from comparable assignments. Comparable assignments are in this context defined as assignments of a similar scope and content as the delivery DKH requests, i.e., design and development of websites and a publication system. Documentation requirement: Description of the tenderer's up to 5 most relevant assignments in the last 3 years. The description must include a statement of: 1. The contracting authority (name, telephone no. and e-mail address of the recipient). 2. The assignment's value. 3. Date (from/to). 4. Description of the service/the delivery with links, pictures, or equivalent. The deliveries must document experience with the design and development of websites and a publication system. It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. DKH reserves the right to contact the listed contact persons for references.
Requirement: Tenderers must have experience from work with universal design of websites. Documentation requirement: Description of the tenderer's 2 most relevant assignments in the the last 3 years. The description must include a statement of: 1. The contracting authority (name, telephone no. and e-mail address of the recipient). 2. Date (from/to). 3. Description of and a link to the projects that document that the tenderer has experience in fulfilling the universal design requirements. It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. DKH reserves the right to contact the listed contact persons for references.
Requirement: Tenderers must have sufficient capacity to provide the requested services and systems. Documentation requirement: An account of how the tenderer will ensure sufficient capacity for the implementation of the procurement and prioritising of resources, both related to the design and development of websites and publication systems.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirement: Norwegian tenderers: Company Registration Certificate. Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be older than 6 months from the qualification deadline.

Award value: 10000000