Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-23
Buyer: Kultur- og idrettsbygg Oslo KF [the Culture and Sports Building Oslo]
Country: NO
Region: Oslo
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45212000: Construction work for leisure buildings | 45212300
Submission deadline: 2016-06-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: For a more detailed description of this contract's scope, refer to Part B Work Scope and Payment and Part F Drawings.
After the contract has been signed there will be an optimalisation period of approx. 6 months in contract ‘M005 Internal construction work and technical installations’.
Contract ‘M011 Automation’ must reckon on participating in parts of this process for the coordination of progress and technical systems.
A design phase in two stages for a total length of approx. 6 months shall be carried out for contract ‘M011 Automation’ after the contract has been signed:
For a more detailed description of this contract's scope, refer to Part B Work Scope and Payment and Part F Drawings.
All risk for the completed engineering design services for the attached tender documentation will be transferred to the supplier (the turnkey contractor).
The tenderer is obliged to meet the requirements regarding payment and and working conditions in public contracts, dated 8.2.2008.
The Munch project is a Beacon Project with the aim of establishing a learning arena for apprentices in public construction projects with a focus on interaction across disciplines and ensuring good professional learning and vocational pride. The Beacon Project is established as a cooperation between Oslo municipality and Oslo Håndverks- og Industriforening. The Articles of Association for the Beacon Project will be attached to the tender documentation.
Tenderers shall ensure that during the entire contract period at least 1 apprentice is used for performing work connected to this contract. The tenderer shall document that the requirement is fulfilled by the start of the work, and otherwise upon the contracting authority's request. The apprentice requirement shall be met regardless of whether the work is carried out by a main contractor or subcontractor.
The contracting authority shall have full authority from the tenderer(s) and sub-supplier(s) for an unlimited number of times to collect information about the matters specified in the authority for collection of information about tax and duties etc., that are annexed to this contract.
The rights and obligations in the authority shall apply from when the authority is signed until six months after the contract has been completed.
The contracting authority can always check the tenderer's and any sub-suppliers' fulfilment of tax and/or duty obligations.
If the tenderer, in a not insignificant degree, breaches his tax and/or duty obligations, the contracting authority can, after the tenderer has been given a deadline to correct matters, cancel the contract. If the tenderer significantly breaches his tax and/or duty obligations, the contracting authority can cancel the contract without the tenderer being given a deadline to correct matters. The right to cancel does not apply if the demand is formally disputed with a competent authority and the tenderer can substantiate to the contracting authority that the demand is not justified.
If the tenderer's sub-suppliers, in a not insignificant degree, breach their tax and/or duty obligations, the contracting authority can, after the sub-supplier has been given a deadline to correct matters, demand that the tenderer replaces the sub-supplier as soon as possible, at no cost to the contracting authority. The right to demand a replacement does not apply if the demand is formally disputed with a competent authority and the tenderer can substantiate to the contracting authority that the demand against the sub-supplier is not justified. If the tenderer does not replace the sub-supplier that it is obliged to replace, the contracting authority can cancel the contract.
If it is beyond reasonable doubt that the tenderer has breached the Competition Act §§ 10 or 11, or equivalent provisions, the contracting authority can cancel the contract if this is deemed to be appropriate after a concrete assessment.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: Tenderers shall have their tax and VAT payments in order. Documentation requirement: Tax and VAT certificate, not older than 6 months. Foreign tenderers must provide certificates from equivalent authorities to the Norwegian authorities. Requirement: The tenderer must be a legally established company. Documentation requirement: Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate. Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register. Requirement: Tenderers provider shall have sufficient economic and financial strength to be able to fulfil the contract. Documentation requirement: The company's last 3 annual Financial Statements including notes, the Board's Annual Reports and Audit Reports, including new information of relevance to the company's fiscal numbers. A credit evaluation/rating, not older than 3 months, based on the last known fiscal figures. The rating shall be carried out by an officially certified credit rating institution. Requirement: Tenderers shall have significant experience from equivalent assignments and complexity, i.e. individual assignments with engineering design services, dimensioning and assembly and commissioning with a contract value of more than 5 000 000 NOK. Documentation requirement: A description of the tenderer's most relevant projects carried out during the last 5 years, with a signed certificate from an authorised person at the builder from at least 1 of them. The description must include a statement of the contract's value, date and recipient (name, telephone number and e-mail address). References shall be presented here and they can be contacted if needed to clarify the assignment's relevance. However, it is the tenderer's responsibility to provide a description substantiating relevance. Requirement: Tenderers shall have sufficient implementation ability and capacity. Documentation requirement: A description of the tenderer's personnel or units the tenderer has at their disposition to fulfil the contract, regardless of whether they belong to the company or not. It shall be clear whether the personnel or units belong to the company. If it is necessary to rely on other companies' capacity to meet the qualification requirements, documentation is required to show the contracting authority that the company has the necessary resources available, such as a signed commitment statement from these other companies. Requirement: Tenderers shall have a good and well-functioning quality assurance system for the services that shall be provided. Documentation requirement: An account of the tenderer's quality assurance system/management system with information on the system's name, a detailed contents list and how the system is used in practice. A copy of the system certificate issued by an accredited certification body or equivalent documentation.
Requirement: Tenderers provider shall have sufficient economic and financial strength to be able to fulfil the contract. Documentation requirement: The company's last 3 annual Financial Statements including notes, the Board's Annual Reports and Audit Reports, including new information of relevance to the company's fiscal numbers. A credit evaluation/rating, not older than 3 months, based on the last known fiscal figures. The rating shall be carried out by an officially certified credit rating institution.
Requirement: Tenderers shall have significant experience from equivalent assignments and complexity, i.e. individual assignments with engineering design services, dimensioning and assembly and commissioning with a contract value of more than 5 000 000 NOK. Documentation requirement: A description of the tenderer's most relevant projects carried out during the last 5 years, with a signed certificate from an authorised person at the builder from at least 1 of them. The description must include a statement of the contract's value, date and recipient (name, telephone number and e-mail address). References shall be presented here and they can be contacted if needed to clarify the assignment's relevance. However, it is the tenderer's responsibility to provide a description substantiating relevance. Requirement: Tenderers shall have sufficient implementation ability and capacity. Documentation requirement: A description of the tenderer's personnel or units the tenderer has at their disposition to fulfil the contract, regardless of whether they belong to the company or not. It shall be clear whether the personnel or units belong to the company. If it is necessary to rely on other companies' capacity to meet the qualification requirements, documentation is required to show the contracting authority that the company has the necessary resources available, such as a signed commitment statement from these other companies. Requirement: Tenderers shall have a good and well-functioning quality assurance system for the services that shall be provided. Documentation requirement: An account of the tenderer's quality assurance system/management system with information on the system's name, a detailed contents list and how the system is used in practice. A copy of the system certificate issued by an accredited certification body or equivalent documentation.