Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-08-19
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 63712210 | 72000000
Estimated value: 90000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Statens vegvesen [the Norwegian Public Roads Administration] intends to change the duration of the contract with the existing supplier of a central system for toll money collection.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration intends to change the duration of the contract with the existing supplier of a central system for toll money collection. The change will allow the Norwegian Public Roads Administration the opportunity of extending the contract for up to 12 months by changing the contract provisions concerning extension (point 4.4 of the contract). The contract expires on the 15 January 2021. The extension is made to ensure the transfer of all toll money projects to the new system solutions and to ensure the entire value chain that toll collection in Norway represents.
The current central system, CS Norge, covers the functionality from the registered passing until the invoice is paid, and is described as a monolithic system. The current solution and functionality will be replaced with a component-based architecture where each actor has their own solutions or services. In general, the vision consists of AutoPASS Kjerne, the toll companies’ operator solutions and the issuers' issuing solutions.
With the exception of the issuing solutions, it is anticipated that all of the operator solutions will be integrated with already procured and developed core components (AutoPASS Kjerne) in January 2021.
According to the issuer regulation, the issuers must be separate from the operators. With commencement of the issuer regulation, however, a separate issuer market had not been established in Norway and a transitional arrangement was therefore established where the Norwegian Public Roads Administration could grant dispensation to toll companies so that they could continue to perform issuing activity as integrated issuers through the use of the current solution. It follows from the hearing about the issuer regulations and the establishment of a private issuer market that the issuers must provide for their own systems.
It has proven to be difficult to establish a functioning issuer market and there is still a degree of uncertainty regarding when the regional toll companies will be able to divest the issuer business including the use of the existing system solution. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will have to offer system support until the integrated issues can deliver their own procured services for the issuing area. Therefore, more time is required than anticipated in order to complete all of the necessary toll projects and transfer all clients to the new components. In addition, the regional toll companies will need access to the current central system for up to 6 months calculated from the last registered passing, in order to safeguard collection based on the necessary data basis.
On this background there is a need to extend the contract with Q-Free for 12 months. This will enable SVV to ensure a system solution that covers all needs, as well as set a final deadline for when the existing central system will be phased out. This possible extension will be applied by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration changing point 4.4 in the existing contract. The change is being made in order to ensure continuity in toll money collection. It is critical the the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has access to a system for toll money collection in Norway, ensuring that the toll money collection does not stop, something that would have extensive consequences.
It is not possible to hold a competition for this extension, as no supplier, neither new or established companies, would be able to deliver a system for toll money collection for this period. Only the existing supplier is able to deliver and operate a functioning system until the new system is in place. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is therefore of the opinion that they can enter into a contract without a prior notice in accordance with the public procurement regulations § 13-4 letter b number 2.


Winner: Q-Free ASA
Award value: 90000000