Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-20
Buyer: Oslo kommune v/ Helseetaten
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71317210 | 71621000 | 72000000 | 72222300: Information technology services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 21000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2020-12-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework Agreement for the Procurement of Consultancy Services for Work Connected to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The aim of this procurement is to cover Oslo Municipality, c/o the Health Department's (the contracting authority) need for strategic, administrative, and operative support for work on the Covid-19 pandemic. This procurement will ensure that the contracting authority has access to consultants who can assist the contracting authority with, for example, the follow-up and improvement of the department's planning work, and who can assist in the implementation of Oslo Municipality's TISK strategy (test, isolation, infection tracing and quarantine).
The Health Department will aim to have its own employees in as many of the roles as possible in the project work, but will try to staff the roles so that there is one employee and one hired person working side by side in most positions. This is so as to ensure good professionalism, capacity, and continuity. There can also be a need for the consultant to provide assistance with the line organisation when there are internal capacity shortages due to the reallocation of permanent employees to Covid-19 activities. The need for such assistance will be within the areas described above.
It is not possible to predict the development of the Covid-19 pandemic or assignments in the wake of it. The total scope of the contract is therefore very uncertain. The total financial limit, including the option, is estimated to be between NOK 15 million and NOK 21 million excluding VAT. The estimate is based on approx. 8 consultants, with some being full time and others working part time.
The Health Department envisages that the need over time will probably be approx. eight consultants in varying degrees of employment. The need can vary in line with the swings in the pandemic, but it can decrease over the contract period.
The contracting authority has an option to extend the contract for a further up to 12 months on unchanged terms. There can be a call-off for the option for the entire twelve months, or the option can be split into several call-offs. The contracting authority must, at the latest 2 weeks before the contract expires, give the tenderer written notification of whether the option will be taken up.
Foreign tenderers: verification that the company is registered in a trade index or a register of business enterprises as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.
This point will be subject to assessment of turnover, annual results, as well as key figures in the balance sheet.
The company's last annual financial statements including notes, the board's annual report and audit report, as well as new information of relevance to the company's fiscal numbers.
Similar deliveries means deliveries of consultancy services for organisations of a certain size and complexity.
It is sufficient that the tenderer's deliveries combined document sufficient experience from comparable deliveries.
A short description of up to the three most important deliveries in the last 3 years. This includes information on:
• contact information for the recipient: name of the contact person, telephone number and email address;
• a short description of the content of the delivery, including the delivery scope, the contract's value in NOK and the date/period.

Eligibility requirements: Qualification requirements: Tenderers must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate Foreign tenderers: verification that the company is registered in a trade index or a register of business enterprises as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.

Award value: 21000000