Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-12-19
Buyer: Haugaland Kraft Nett AS
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 64214400 | 72315200: Data network management services

Technical requirements: Haugaland Kraft Nett AS (HK Nett) intends to sign a contract with Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS to cover their need for data networks for their network installations, including:
Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS has already developed such fibre infrastructure, and there is no parallel infrastructure in the area, that can meet HK Net's needs. It will therefore clearly be most cost-efficient to sign a contract with Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS.
In 1997, Haugaland Kraft AS made a general decision that the company's broadband business should develop fibre and communication solutions on behalf of the company's network operations, which the network business can utilise for the operation of the network. Construction of fibre and communications solution in relation to the named decision is implemented for HK Nett's need for operational control in the existing installation.
In January 2016, Haugaland Kraft was converted into a group and internet and broadband business was demerged into 2 individual legal entities, respectively HK Nett (org No 915 635 857) and Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS (org No 915 635 881). Both of the companies are fully-owned by the parent company.
Data communication for operational control, energy measurement, telephony, measurement of voltage quality etc. is established in a technical solution — with primarily fibre as the communications medium, where Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS owns the network components in the network installations.
HK Nett currently has a need for an operational control system in a geographic area from Fusa in the north to Skudeneshavn in the south, as well as Suldal in the east and Karmøy to the west. There are over 40 transformer stations in the area that all are connected to the operational control system via fibre. In addition, there are approx. 50 remotely controlled network stations with fibre connection.
Fibre to approx. 800 delivery points in the network company’s license area for the services of AMS meters, earth-fault warnings and other grid utilisation is under establishment.
The contract will have a duration of 2 years with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract for up to 1 year + 1 year.
The procurement occurs without a competition, based on the supply regulation § 9-3 first paragraph letter b) No 2 that says a procurement can be implemented without a competition if the competition is ‘impossible due to technical reasons’. This alternative is primarily used only when one supplier in the market can deliver a specific product or service, and if there are no reasonable alternatives. With regard to fibre infrastructure, it would be unrealistic that other supplier would want to submit a tender. This has different causes. First, it is not sufficient to have copper lines, as this will have another capacity. Haugaland Kraft Fibre is the only company that can currently offer clean fibre lines. Any solution other than fibre will also not safeguard the security aspect in a sufficient manner. It is clearly most economically advantageous for the contracting authority to award a contract to Haugaland Kraft Fibre AS. This is also supported by consideration of objective in the procurement regulations concerning efficient recourse-use.


Winner: Haugaland Kraft Fiber AS