Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2016-08-26
Buyer: Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment)
Country: NO
Region: Akershus
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31500000 | 32321200 | 32321300 | 39130000 | 39153000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Announcement of tender competition 009-2016 framework agreement for the purchase of furniture and fixtures for Kinnarps.
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has received appeals on the awarding of the framework agreement to Kinnarps.
The appeals are based on the two submitted tender offers from the different tenderers being based on a different understanding of the attached price form. This resulted in the submitted prices not being comparable.
The executed competition is an open tender competition without the possibility of negotiations (see the tender documentation article 2.1). The possibility to collect explanations/information from the relevant tenderers is limited by the Regulation on Public Procurements (PPR) § 21-1. The ban on negotiations with tender competitions. FFI determined that it is not possible to correct the error without receiving further information from the tenderers about how they have interpreted the price form. Correcting errors by clarification from the tenderers would result in a breach of the ban on negotiations.
After the award, FFI received information from appeals meaning that the competition could have had a different outcome if the price form had been designed differently.
Since the error cannot be corrected without negotiating, and that the complaintant could possibly have been awarded the contract, FFI has chosen to the cancel the competition in accordance with PPR § 22-1. Cancellation of competition and total rejection (1) and (2).
Announcement of tender competition 009-2016 framework agreement for the purchase of furniture and fixtures for Kinnarps.
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has received appeals on the awarding of the framework agreement to Kinnarps.
The appeals are based on the two submitted tender offers from the different tenderers being based on a different understanding of the attached price form. This resulted in the submitted prices not being comparable.
The executed competition is an open tender competition without the possibility of negotiations (see the tender documentation article 2.1). The possibility to collect explanations/information from the relevant tenderers is limited by the Regulation on Public Procurements (PPR) § 21-1. The ban on negotiations with tender competitions. FFI determined that it is not possible to correct the error without receiving further information from the tenderers about how they have interpreted the price form. Correcting errors by clarification from the tenderers would result in a breach of the ban on negotiations.
After the award, FFI received information from appeals meaning that the competition could have had a different outcome if the price form had been designed differently.
Since the error cannot be corrected without negotiating, and that the complaintant could possibly have been awarded the contract, FFI has chosen to the cancel the competition in accordance with PPR § 22-1. Cancellation of competition and total rejection (1) and (2).
Announcement of tender competition 009-2016 framework agreement for the purchase of furniture and fixtures for Kinnarps.
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has received appeals on the awarding of the framework agreement to Kinnarps.
The appeals are based on the two submitted tender offers from the different tenderers being based on a different understanding of the attached price form. This resulted in the submitted prices not being comparable.