Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2023-08-24
Buyer: Direktoratet for forvaltning og økonomistyring (DFØ)
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 71621000 | 72100000 | 79411000
Estimated value: 4000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Voluntary ex-ante transparency notice - research, analysis, and consultancy services within the IT field
The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ) intends to enter into a service contract with Gartner Norge AS for research, analyses, and consultancy services within the IT field.
The aim of the contract is to get access to strategic IT consultancy and analysis services from a supplier-independent collaboration partner. The contract will include member based services, independent, and objective analyses of technology, patented research process, etc. The subscriptions will support ICT strategic advice, including management models, architectural work, risk management, choice of technology, IT operations and management models, sourcing, support for requirements specifications in procurements and implementation of efficiency and profit taking. The knowledge will be made available through consulting/publications/seminars and conferences.. The contract includes access to national and international professional and branch experts, as well as access to analysts/consultants and analyses, methodologies, templates and tools. A broad selection of professional conferences, seminars and symposiums, both in Norway and internationally is also included. The tenderer's methods must be based on acknowledged and well-defined analysis models for technology development, maturity, and dissemination based on best practices for classic challenges within IT and the organisation of IT, such as:
Furthermore, tenderers must be able to offer a member based contract with a fixed price for the different services and with well-defined deliveries such as: Role based portals, free access to analysts within the programme, free access to analyses, methods, templates, and tools that are included in the different programmes, and which are available on the internet through dedicated portals. Tenderers must be able to offer analyses on a strategic level, including reference architectures, as well as specific, tactical advice on implementation.
Tenderers must also offer: A dedicated portal with relevant content for each role, analyses, methods, and tools that address problems that occur in the different roles, a portal that is easy to configure for own needs, possibility to build a network with other members that offer similar services or that have a similar role.
Software must be offered that, amongst other things, addresses top management within IT. Coaching of both a strategic and tactical character according to a fixed pattern and when required for IT top managers and for selected IT management roles, network meetings with other IT managers from the public sector, both in Norway and the Nordic countries, and internationally, supporting the IT organisation in achieving the business' goals through efficient use of technology.
- Consultancy services for end-user organisations ('users of technology' - not suppliers) based on interviews, analyses and daily contact with other equivalent organisations, in order to prepare, amongst other things, best practice within different areas in the application of technology in the organisation.
- Monitoring actors/suppliers in different technology markets by, amongst other things, ranking suppliers within a given market.
- Monitoring technology with the identification of trends for use, analyses of the impact the technology can have in various parts of society, analyses of the various phases a technology undergoes from an idea to commercial availability in the market and in daily use in organisations.
Tenderers must offer consultancy services in close conjunction with, and based on, access to the same research and analysis material offered through the subscription services.
The contract will apply from 1.9.2023 to 31.12.2024 with an option for DFØ to extend the contract for a further one year until 31.12.2025.
The contract will have a contract value of NOK 2 million, or up to NOK 4 million if the option is taken up.
According to the PPR § 21-5, a contracting authority can, after a supplier has been chosen, announce that the contract will be signed by publishing a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice. This can be done if the contracting authority believes they have the legal basis to enter into a contract without announcing a contest in accordance with the PPR § 21-2. Based on the contracting authority's investigations and knowledge of the market, the chosen tenderer is the only tenderer that can cover the contracting authority's need and that offers a combination of subscriptions, consulting and professional conferences in ICT strategic fields. The contracting authority believes that there is a legal basis to enter into a contract with Gartner Norge AS for a subscription scheme without announcing a contest pursuant to the PPR § 13-4 (b) as Garter Norge AS is the only supplier that can offer such services.


Winner: Gartner Norge AS
Award value: 4000000