Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-06-18
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Region: NO020
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34922100 | 45000000: Construction work | 45233130: Road works | 45233141: Road-maintenance work
Estimated value: 176000000 NOK
Award criteria: price, cost

Technical requirements: The works include transverse and longitudinal road markings with sprayed thermoplastic and spray plastic along national and European roads, with the accompanying cycle path network. The workers also include milling for road marking and removing road markings. Also includes cleaning before laying longitudinal and transverse marking.

The geographical area is Østfold and parts of Akershus with road references:
From E6 S1D1 up to and including Ev6 S13D1
From E18 S58D1 up to and including E18 S68D1
From Ev134 S48D1 m2400 up to and including Ev134 S49D1
National road 22 from s1d1 to national road 22 S12D1

This is a multi-year contract, and decisions on what stretches work shall be carried out and the type of work that shall be carried out on them each year, must be planned in close cooperation with the tenderer. The planning will be based on information on the need for road marking, including information on damage development and available budgets. This contract contains special provisions in chapters C3, points 2 and 3 on interaction, planning and cooperation with the tenderer on this. The work will be settled with a round sum for round sum processes, in accordance with amounts and unit prices for other processes and as maths work in accordance with hourly rates for crews and machines.
The contracting authority will choose tenders on the basis of the lowest price.
According to the Public Procurement Regulations § 7-9 (4), the award criterion in accordance with PPR § 7-9 (2) and (3) can be replaced with climate and environmental requirements if it is clear that this provides a better climate and environmental effect. 
The climate and environmental impact of this procurement is mainly related to emissions from the materials, including drop-on materials, which are used for road marking. There are currently no comparable EPDs or data that allow calculations on greenhouse gas emissions in VegLCA for this.
A market dialogue was held prior to the contracts that started in 2024, it emerged that the industry needed at least 6 months to prepare EPDs for the road marking materials. EpDs were therefore required to be delivered within six months of signing the contract. A very limited number of EPDs were received in the contracts that started in 2024. The received EPDs did not include drop-on materials. The drop-on material (material that shall ensure reflective material) is a major contributor as regards greenhouse gas emissions. 
 The existing EPDs for road marking materials are not directly comparable, which is a prerequisite for using award criteria. The reason is that they are prepared in different places without joint PCR (Product category rules - rules for what the analysis that will form the basis for the EPD shall cover).). There is a cPCR Road marking systems at the hearing with an estimated publication date set for June 2025.
In autumn 2024 a new market dialogue was held with the industry, connected to weighting climate and the environment in road marking contracts. In addition, the theme was up at the annual road marking conference. 
Market maturity
Expensive and very heavy equipment is used in the implementation phase. The equipment is used nationwide and marking can only occur during the bare ground season. The costs involved in writing down equipment are therefore high. As of now, there are no zero emission machines on the market and the industry has doubts about whether it could be relevant in the next few years. As a result of the weight of equipment and the same equipment being used nationwide for marking both the state and the counties, it is not considered appropriate to set requirements for zero emission machines now. It is connected to the availability of zero emission machines and accessibility to charging stations. It is, therefore, not suitable as an award criterion.
Based on the submitted EPDs and the dialogue with the branch, we have concluded that it is not possible to weight climate in the competitions for the life cycle modules A1-A3, C1-C4 and D in a way that ensures competition in equal vilkår.pr. Time. A decision has also been made as to whether it is possible to weight the modules A4-A5, but as of now there are no secure methods to ascertain/check that either budget or accounting are based on real values. This means that it is clear that it gives a better climate and environmental effect by using requirements as this sets a minimum level that it is uncertain if it is achieved by using the award criteria as the market is not mature.  
By setting minimum requirements in the contract, we are largely ensured a climate and environmental effect and we therefore consider the climate and environmental gains in this procurement to be better safeguarded through such a requirement position rather than the use of climate and environment as the award criteria.
• Requirement of the P-class.
Requirements are made in contract D1.1 for the use of certified road marking materials with given P-classes. The classes specify the lifetime of the materials. The P-class choice will be based on what gives the optimum lifetime of road markings.
• A budget shall be submitted for A4 and A5 when tenders are submitted for contracts starting in 2025 (C3 points 12 and C4 point 5. It will provide a basis for assessing how large differences there can be on different schemes for the execution and later weighting of CO2.
• The delivery of a complete EPD (C3-point 12) as well as additional information (C4-point 5) for each life cycle modules A1-A5, C1-C4 and D is required by the end of 2025. 
• The LCA is required to be delivered for the road marking materials (C3-point 12).
• It is open to contractors to propose alternative solutions that provide gains for climate/environment (C3-point 15).
• Euro 6 requirement for all lorries (C4-point 4)
• A minimum of 90% of all vehicles with light vehicles shall be emission free (C2 point 34).
• Waste management requirements (C2-30.5).
Tenderers are required to be certified in accordance with ISO 14001 or equivalent recognised systems, at the latest 3 months after the start of the work (C2-point 22.1).


Winner: Hot Mix Oy Finland
Award value: 51792765
Number of bids: 3