Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-09-12
Buyer: Statens vegvesen
Country: NO
Region: NO083
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 45310000 | 55000000 | 63712000 | 65300000: Electricity distribution and related services | 65320000: Operation of electrical installations
Estimated value: 31500000 NOK
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The contracting authority invites tenderers to a competition for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a 24 hour resting place for heavy transport in E134 in the Seljord area. The driving distance from the E134 to the entrance for the actual 24 hour resting place shall be a maximum of 1 km. Driving distance is measured from the exit from the E134. 

The 24 hour resting place shall contain sanitary installations with toilets/showers and charging stations, and it shall have 20-25 parking places. Otherwise, the 24 hour resting place shall fulfil the shall-requirements listed in point 3.1. 

The 24 hour resting place shall be ready for opening by 01.11.2026 at the latest and applies for 10 years from the opening hours. The contracting authority has the option to extend the contract for 1+1 year, so that the total possible lease period is 12 years.
The 24 hour resting place shall be located along the E134 in the Seljord area. The driving distance from E 34 to the entrance for the actual 24 hour resting place shall be a maximum of 1 km.
Tenderers shall enclose a completed price form, cf. annex 1.
The evaluation of quality is based on an assessment of the responses to deliveries that the contracting authority wants (ought-requirements), cf. the requirement specifications point 3.2.

The sub-criteria in the award criteria quality:
1. Request for more charging stations than the minimum requirement (point 3.2 letter a).
2. Request for earlier opening of the 24 hour resting place than the minimum requirement (point 3.2 letter b)
3. Request for service for the users of the 24 hour resting place (point 3.2 letter c)
4. Request for service for the vehicles (point 3.2 letter d)
5. Request for solar panel installations (point 3.2 point e)

Documentation requirement:
Tenderers shall fill in the "Response form for shall-requirements and ought-requirements", cf. annex 2.
There is no requirement for 30% weighting of climate and environmental considerations. The contracting authority can replace climate and environmental considerations in the award criteria with climate and environmental requirements in the requirement specification, if it is clear that this gives better climate and environmental effect.

Several different requirements are made in the requirement specification, including:
- All areas that must be developed shall have an asphalt-EDP that is lower than 50 kg/tonne in accordance with NS-EN 15804+A2:2019.
- Charging stations shall be established for electric lorries. 
- Cleaning shall be carried out with environmentally friendly products.

It has been considered that the effect of setting these requirements (especially the first two hyphenated points) gives a better effect than a possible achievement, if they were used as the award criteria. The requirements and effectiveness of the above requirements are, in our opinion, sufficient to use the exception in PPR § 7-9 (4). 

We would, however, like further focus on the environment in this procurement and in the award criterion quality have stated that more charging stations are wanted than the minimum requirement in the requirement specifications, as well as solar cell installations in connection with the 24 hour resting place. The award criteria is weighted with 35% in total and charging stations and solar panel installations are respectively prioritised as numbers 1 and 5 in the award criteria quality.


Winner: Døgnhvile AS
Award value: 31500000
Number of bids: 3