Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-08-27
Buyer: Direktoratet for økonomistyring (DFØ)
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 30200000 | 30230000 | 72317000: Data storage services
Submission deadline: 2019-09-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DFØ currently provides services for approx. 90 % of all government entities within wages and accounting, with a total of more than 130 000 users who have chosen to outsource their wages and accounting services to DFØ.
DFØ is holding a negotiated procedure for a contract with one tenderer who will cover our need for a storage platform for our services. The delivery must cover 24/7/365 monitoring and support, set-up and migration from the current system, in addition to the actual storage system.
DFØ is holding a negotiated procedure for a contract with one tenderer who will cover our need for a storage platform for our services. The delivery must cover 24/7/265 monitoring and support, set-up and migration from the current system, in addition to the actual storage system.
This contest is initiated with a qualification phase. Only tenderers who fulfil the qualification requirements and who have been invited, will be able to submit a tender. Between 5 and 8 tenderers will be pre-qualified to submit a tender.
There will be an option in the contract period to assess a transition from an on-premise system to a cloud system.
Tenderers are required to be a legally established company. Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must enclose a description of the tenderer's organisation, company structure, ownership structure and business area. A company registration certificate must be attached for Norwegian companies.
Foreign tenderers must present verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Satisfactory finances are required to carry out the assignment. A credit rating is therefore required, which must include a credit rating, part judgement and historical rating. The credit rating shall be carried out by a publicly certified credit institution.
The credit rating must not be lower than score A (creditworthy) or equivalent if a different form of score is used (assessment of figures). Tenderers with a rating lower than A or equivalent (i.e. not credit worthy or credit worthy with security) will not be considered.
Tenderers shall enclose a credit rating from a certified credit institution. The credit report shall be based on the last known fiscal figures (Annual Financial Statement 2018). The credit report shall not be older than 6 months from the tender deadline.
Tenderers with a rating lower than A or equivalent (i.e. not credit worthy or credit worthy with security) will not be considered.
A short description of the general quality assurance system that the tenderer use for fulfilment of this contract.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers are required to be a legally established company. Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirements: Tenderers must enclose a description of the tenderer's organisation, company structure, ownership structure and business area. A company registration certificate must be attached for Norwegian companies. Foreign tenderers must present verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.