Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-11
Buyer: Husbanken
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72200000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72240000 | 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 160000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2019-11-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The IT services will support the digitalisation work in the Norwegian National Housing Bank. The Norwegian National Housing Bank's main offices are located in modern premises in Papirbredden in Drammen.
The digitalisation office is a total supplier of digital tools and services that contribute to the Norwegian National Housing Bank's goal achievement. The office gathers all operative digital competence in one place and is committed to development and innovative systems in close collaboration with the trade offices. The office has approx. 50 permanent man-labour years, split between 4 departments: IT development, IT management, IT architecture and IT process. In addition there are approx. 25 hired consultants at any one time.
The consultants under the framework agreement will be included in the further development and modernisation of the Norwegian National Housing Bank's digital tools and services. In addition the Norwegian National Housing Bank has a large number of installations with other public actors and joint components that must be further developed and managed. This requires good quality from the offered IT services.
The consultants will work user-centered, flexibly and inter-disciplinary, with a focus on sharing and cooperation. They will, thus, be sitting in an autonomous team across department and office boundaries. The teams will be completely responsible for providing systems that support the service area or project they are responsible for. In order to ensure professional affiliation and development, there are separate professional groups that focus on new technology and learning across the teams.
The Norwegian National Housing Bank's systems are built on a micro-service architecture and developed on modern technological frameworks such as angular, spring boot and NoSQL databases. In order to ensure flexibility and quality in the systems, there is a high degree of test automation through the use of frameworks such as Selenium and Cucumber. DevOps is used and the systems run on OpenShift, a modern container platform that is managed and further developed by a dedicated team. The development tool are, amongst other things, IntelliJ, Jira, BitBucket and Confluence.
Tenderers must be registered in a company register or trade register in the member state where the tenderer is established. As described in Annex XI of Directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member countries can be required to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex. See the tender documentation.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. Creditworthiness with no requirement for guarantees will be sufficient to meet the requirement. Documented by: credit assessment/rating based on the most recent known financial figures. The rating must be carried out by a credit rating company with a licence to conduct this service. See the tender documentation.
Tenderers must have very good experience from comparable assignments. Documentation: description of the tenderer's 3 most relevant assignments in the last 3 years — use Annex 4. The description must include a statement of the customer, contact information, as well as information on the actual delivery. It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description. See the tender documentation.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. Creditworthiness with no requirement for guarantees will be sufficient to meet the requirement. Documented by: credit assessment/rating based on the most recent known financial figures. The rating must be carried out by a credit rating company with a licence to conduct this service. See the tender documentation.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register or trade register in the member state where the tenderer is established. As described in Annex XI of Directive 2014/24/EU; suppliers from certain member countries can be required to fulfil other requirements in the mentioned annex. See the tender documentation.

Award value: 160000000