Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-11-09
Buyer: Bergen kommune - Innkjøp konsern
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48190000 | 72260000: Software-related services
Submission deadline: 2022-12-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bergen Municipality shall procure a programme for reading and writing support for the primary and lower secondary education at the Bergen schools The software must be accessible for students and adults connected to the education institutions. Bergen schools have approx. 7,000 employees and 30,000 students. Of which approx. 10,000 students speak foreign languages.
The agreement applies to software delivered as a service over the Internet and covers establishment, training, administration and user support.
Bergen municipality has made it possible for the actors in the Bergen Schools to experience good and relevant use of digital support systems. The purpose of the procurement is to improve children's and studens' learning results by supporting them in their learning process from the first to tenth year. To contribute to early intervention for the youngest children, to support the learning process throughout primary and lower secondary school and to strengthen the oldest students' learning outcomes before they transfer to sixth form college.
Bergen Municipality has a large and increasing group of students speaking foreign languages. Audio support for everything available on the computer screen, for example for images, text, mathematical formulas, various text formats, internet formats and icons is therefore important. It is important that the system supports learning strategies where auditory learning ability is stimulated and activated and where students receive support in the writing process is important.
Bergen municipality, c/o byrådsavdeling for barnehage, skole og idrett is the contracting authority to the agreement. The system shall be a group system in Bergen municipality, Etat for skole will be the system owner when the system is established,
The minimum agreement period is three (3) years, then ongoing until one of the parties terminates the agreement in accordance with the agreement's provisions on contract period and termination. The agreement period is maximum seven (7) years.
Language packages for specified additional languages are included as an option on the agreement. However, this do not represent a purchase obligation for Bergen municipality.
The language packages shall be priced in a separate annex which is not included in the price evaluation.
Documentation: Tenderers registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises do not need to enclose documentation. The contracting authority will control the registration by using the organisation number provided in the tenderer's Mercell profile. For tenderers that are not registered in the above-mentioned register, the tenderer must provide certificates or confirmation of registration (equivalent to a company registration certificate) in a trade register or company register as described in the legislation in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline.
In regards to any other economic and financial requirements stated in the tender notice or in the procurement documents, the tenderer must verify:
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. The required financial capacity will be assessed in relation to the contract's value, services, risk and length. Documentation for Norwegian tenderers: The contracting authority will check tenderers' financial situation from DIFI's eBevis, Proff Forvalt (https://forvalt.no/) and/or via information given by Creditsafe (https://www.creditsafe.com), and can obtain further information from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Note that the tender documentation includes guidelines on how tenderers can supplement available information if wanted. Documentation for foreign tenderers: Tenderers must, upon request, submit a credit rating report from a company that has a licence from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to operate a credit information company in Norway, possibly from a company with the equivalent certification in a member country of the EU/EEA. The credit rating report must be based on updated accounting information.
Only for services: During the reference period, the tenderer has carried out the following important goods deliveries of the requested type, or the following important services of the requested type. The contracting authority can require up to three years' experience and can take experience from the period before the last three years into consideration.
Tenderers must have substantial and relevant experience. The experience shall include deliveries of a similar type as requested in this invitation to tender. I.e. software, establishment, training, management and user support.
Documentation requirement: Relevant experience must be documented by stating a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of three (3) reference projects from the last three (3) years. The references are to be entered directly in the Mercell system. Only the first three reference projects will be assessed if more than three reference projects are listed.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation: Tenderers registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises do not need to enclose documentation. The contracting authority will control the registration by using the organisation number provided in the tenderer's Mercell profile. For tenderers that are not registered in the above-mentioned register, the tenderer must provide certificates or confirmation of registration (equivalent to a company registration certificate) in a trade register or company register as described in the legislation in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate must not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline.