Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-11-19
Buyer: Bærum kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 22111000 | 22112000 | 22113000 | 48190000 | 48218000

Technical requirements: Invitation to Participate in a Market Dialogue for the Procurement of Digital Teaching aids in Bærum Kommune [Bærum Municipality]
Bærum kommune [Bærum municipality] has introduced tablet PCs for all students in all levels from first to tenth class. We are also working with making tablet PCs available for use in nursery schools. In order to fully utilise this investment, the municipality needs multiple and more advanced digital teaching aids.
The contracting authority will make a large procurement of digital teaching aids. In this connection, we want to trial a new price model in a minor area. We now extend an invitation to participate in a supplier dialogue concerning design of this trial.
Bærum municipality wants to give students the best possible personal and professional benefit of schooling. One part of this is to procure digital teaching aids for nursery schools and primary and lower secondary schools in all stages from first class to tenth class. An important goal is to give students and teachers access to a wide variety of teaching materials so that they can use the teaching material that is most suitable in the learning work they are involved in at any given time.
The procurement will support the objective of the government's digitising strategy for the primary and lower secondary school:
— students have access to a wide range of learning resources and digital tools in all subjects. The learning resources and the tools are adapted to the different subjects and the students needs and levels. The resources support collaborative learning and collaboration among students and contribute to good dialogue between students and teachers. Teaching aids based on the learning analysis contribute to the education adapting to the student need and prerequisites,
— the teachers play a central role in the assessment and selection of teaching aids that can be adapted to the student group and the individual student.
Bærum municipality is in a process of change where schools are moving towards having digital teaching aids as the main solution while supplementing with printed teaching materials as needed.
The contracting authority has a long-term goal to give students and teachers access to all teaching aids in the market that satisfied a set of minimum requirements to i.a. Universal design, information security and data protection. Payment will be based on use, and in an ecosystem that ensures adaptiveness across the suppliers products. In that way, we want to create a well-functioning market with innovative and updated teaching aids. In addition, teacher will get a tool that makes it possible to offer each individual student custom education, at the same time as teachers free up time for good class management and more individual and group based guidance.
The procurement is intended to be the first step on the journey. The primary part of the procurement will be focused on procuring teaching aids in accordance with the current license model (annual licence with price per student, class or school).