Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-23
Buyer: Sykehusinnkjøp HF
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000
Submission deadline: 2020-11-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Readers and Consumables for Manual and Mechanical Reading of Urine Samples for Delivery to Helse Vest RHF (the Western Norway Regional Health Authority)
The contracting authority requests tenders for readers and consumables for manual and mechanical reading of urine samples.
The contracting authority would like to enter into a framework agreement for 4 years. The framework agreement for consumables is ongoing and applies as long as the instruments are in use.
The contracting authority has an exclusive right for extending the agreement for up to for a contract extension for up to 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 year. The options are activated automatically and on verbatim terms unless otherwise requested by the contracting authority. An annual assessment of the situation will be made after 4 years, prior to the option period.
The contracting authority requests tenders for readers and consumables for manual and mechanical reading of urine samples.
The readers and consumables are used for both Point of Care Testing (POCT) results and for analysis results generated from the laboratories.
The contracting makes a reservation that it may be relevant to expand the equipment fleet with the same types of instruments during the agreement period.
For further information on the objective and scope of the agreement, please see point 1.3 of the tender contest regulations, as well as Appendix 1 — Price sheet (Norwegian: Prisskjema) and Appendix 2 — Requirements specification (Norwegian: Kravspesifikasjon).
Option for entering into a service agreement for the equipment. C.f. Appendix 4 — Overview of the service agreements (Norwegian: Oversikt serviceavtaler.) Any service contracts will be signed by the end of the guarantee period, at the earliest.
Requirements concerning the tenderer's registration: tenderers must enclose documentation confirming that the tenderer is legally registered in a company register in the state where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contractual obligations. Economic and financial capacity means that the tenderer must meet the following requirements: credit rating equal to A or better, measured on AAA Soliditet's scale or equivalent score from another reputable rating company.
The contracting authority will assess the tenderer's fulfilment of the qualification requirement in the following way:
— credit rating based on the last known accounting figures (not older than 6 months from the deadline for receipt of tenders). If a tenderer has valid reasons for not presenting the documentation requested by the contracting authority, the tenderer can prove the economic and financial capacity with any other document that the contracting authority deems suitable, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations' § 16-4, including, for example, a parent company guarantee, bank guarantee, etc.

Eligibility requirements: Requirements concerning the tenderer's registration: tenderers must enclose documentation confirming that the tenderer is legally registered in a company register in the state where the tenderer is established.