Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2017-10-31
Buyer: Statens lånekasse for utdanning
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72300000 | 72400000 | 72500000 | 72510000: Computer-related management services | 72700000

Technical requirements: The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund's operational contract for IT systems expires at the end of 2018 and a project has therefore been started to procure new operational contracts. The project is expected to be split into 3 parts:
This notice is for point 2, operation of infrastructure and office suite systems (administration environment).
A prior information notice is being published so that tenderers can have the time and possibility to familiarise themselves with the procurement method that will be used in this procurement (Best Value Procurement). The notice is expected to be published at the start/middle of October 2017.
Attention is drawn to the fact that the estimated publication date for the competition notice is only an estimate and this date can be changed.
This notice is subject to errors, shortcomings and inaccuracies and there can be changes in the period before the competition is announced.
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund would like to carry out a simple market survey for the procurement of new operational contracts. The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund is interested in feedback and the market's assessment of the areas taken up in the survey and encourages all interested suppliers to participate. See the document ‘market survey’ for questions.
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund requests that responses to the market survey are sent by email to linn.cathrine.skjaermoen@lanekassen.no.
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund will use Best Value Procurement (BVP) as the procurement method for this procurement.
Tenderer who would like to submit a tender ought to familiarise themselves with the method and we recommend that central persons attend a course. Tenderers can read more about BVP on Difi's homepage.
Attention is drawn to the fact that Difi's assessments of BVP as regards the procurement rules, refer to the expired regulations, but legal assessments also stand up against the current rules.
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund currently has 6 locations in Norway. The Ministry of Education and Research has, based on recommendations from the board in the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, decided that the offices in Bergen and Tromsø will be closed down in 2023 and 2020 respectively. Data storage must always be in accordance with the current law.
Interested parties can get more details on the current operational environment by sending an enquiry to the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund's contact person: Linn Cathrine Skjærmoen by email, Linn.Cathrine.Skjaermoen@lanekassen.no
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund would like to inform about Difi's BVP seminar — experience from the first pilots, which will be held 15.11.2017. The registration deadline is 1 November.
Further information on the seminar can be found here: https://www.difi.no/kurs/2017/09/bvp-seminar-erfaringer-fra-de-forste-pilotene
The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund would like to carry out a simple market survey for the procurement of new operational contracts. The Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund is interested in feedback and the market's assessment of the areas taken up in the survey and encourages all interested suppliers to participate. See the document ‘market survey’ for questions.