Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-06-26
Buyer: Politiets fellestjenester
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48422000 | 48517000 | 48611000: Database software package
Estimated value: 90000000 NOK

Technical requirements: Norwegian Police Shared Services has on behalf of the Norwegian Police ICT Services awarded a contract for license and maintenance services on the Genus platform to Genus AS. The agreement also covers the possibility to buy consultancy services in regards to daily maintenance, management and further development of our Genus Applications. The duration of the agreement is 2 years.
The customer has the option to prolong the agreement with regards to license and maintenance services for up to 4 additional years (1 + 1 + 1 + 1), making the maximum possible duration of the contract 6 years. Please note that there is no option to prolong the agreement with regards to consultancy services.
The Norwegian police have developed several IT solutions as applications based on the Genus low-code platform. Our Genus applications are dependent on the Genus platform to function properly. This entails that the Norwegian police must possess a valid license, and such license is only sold as a non-perpetual subscriptions. Our existing subscription will expire at the end of June 2019. If the subscription is not renewed, it will not be possible to carry out some of the daily operational tasks performed by the Norwegian police.
The Genus platform is developed by Genus AS, and Genus AS holds all intellectual property rights to the software. Hence, license and maintenance services on the Genus platform can only be delivered by Genus AS. The terms laid down in the Norwegian Regulations on Public Procurement (Procurement Regulations) § 13-4, Letter b, Alternative 3, is fulfilled. This provision states that a contract may be awarded to a particular economic operator after procurement without competition if the contract comprises deliveries that only the specific particular economic operator can provide due to exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights.
In addition to a licence subscription and maintenance, the Norwegian police have a need for technical assistance with daily management and further development of our Genus applications. This includes expertise and user support on the Genus platform. Only Genus AS has expertise on the Genus platform. Such expertise includes knowledge regarding daily management and further development of Genus applications. Hence, it is not practically possible to carry out a competition on consulting services on the platform. The terms stated in the Procurement Regulations § 13-4, Letter b, Alternative 2, is fulfilled. The aforementioned provision states that a contract may be awarded to a particular economic operator without prior publication of a Contract Notice if there exist technical reasons which render it impossible to carry out a competition. The parties has included provisions in the contract regarding a joint effort to develop a market for consultancy services both within the Genus platform as well as the Norwegian police's Genus applications. As a consequence, the agreement is limited to 2  year duration for consultancy services.


Winner: Genus AS
Award value: 90000000