Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-10-18
Buyer: Skien municipality [Skien municipality]
Country: NO
Region: NORGE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71240000 | 71318000: Lighting engineering services | 71400000
Submission deadline: 2016-11-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Skien municipality, hereafter called the Contracting Authority, invites tenderers to a competition for a contract for engineering design services for and development of a flood path and the accompanying green areas. As a consequence of this, a comprehensive stream opening and water system restoration shall be carried out.
The project is a stream opening as a basis for a park corridor in the urban area between Skien river and the hiking area around Hvitsteintjern, see the map.
The green corridor shall be used as a park area and transport corridor for connecting different activities and places together with each other, at the same time as functioning as green infrastructure for climate adaptation.
The landscape along the stream shall secure the town from floods, strengthen the green structure, give a better town environment and better water quality.
The green corridor shall also strengthen the natural diversity, reopen the stream for fish and be central in the development of a better town environment in the centre of the urban area Skien-Porsgrunn.
The project is being carried out in order to modernise the flood and surface water management with the help of landscape architecture. The stream that runs between the dammed up Hvitsteintjern lake, through a grey urban landscape characterised by large asphalted surfaces and a river valley partially filled with a landfill site and down to the Skien river, shall be brought out into the open air and be an attractive landscape element. This shall, through landscape elements, also function as an available green corridor for managing water, from flood regulations to treating polluted water.
The urban area lacks access to leisure areas and public parks and green areas. So that the development of the urban area is not just development, but also providing access to attractive residential and working environments, the town needs blue-green corridors and available urban leisure activities.
The development does not need to be opposed to natural diversity, water quality and a strong blue-green structure.
We need an urban structure where developed areas and blue-green areas form a strong and integrated web.
The project is being carried out as a learning arena where water management is collected from a pipe to the landscape and contributes to the development of a good urban environment. Kjørbekk is a landscape corridor and a physical answer to Skien's work with:
Flood protection, climate adaptation, better urban environment, community safety, natural diversity, better water quality, close to the town and urban leisure activities, development of green structures and open surface water management.
The project is supported with resources from the Norwegian Environment Agency for climate adaptation measures and water environment measures and it is represented at the Norwegian Water Association's annual conference for the Restoration of Water Systems and Wetlands 2016.
Skien municipality is a member of the national climate adaptation network, which was established after ‘Fremtidens Byer’. Kjørbekk- from pipe to landscape is the municipality's pilot in this network.
Foreign companies: Registration certificate in a professional register as determined by legislation in the country where the tenderer is established.
The company's annual report for the last 3 years, or recent information that is significant for the company's accounting figures. ‘Annual report’ means the report that Norwegian companies send to the Brønnøysund Register Centre.

Eligibility requirements: Company registration, tax and HSE — Obligatory and absolute requirements. Documentation: Norwegian companies: Company registration certificate. Foreign companies: Registration certificate in a professional register as determined by legislation in the country where the tenderer is established. Tax and VAT certificate, not older than 6 months from the tender deadline. Filled in and signed HSE self-declaration. Tenderers must have the finances for fulfilling the contract. Documentation requirement: The company's annual report for the last 3 years, or recent information that is significant for the company's accounting figures. ‘Annual report’ means the report that Norwegian companies send to the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Requirement: We would like companies to be certified in the Miljøfyrtårn scheme, or to fulfil similar environmental requirements. Documentation requirement: Environmental certification. Requirement: Good implementation ability. Tenderers must have sufficient technical qualifications (competence, capacity etc.) to fulfil the contractual obligations. Hereunder tenderers are required to have completed reference assignments of approx. the same type, complexity and extent. Documentation requirement: Expertise: Tenderers shall prepare a competence matrix for the engineering design group. An overview shall be given of available resources based on education and professional qualifications that the tenderer can use within each responsibility/discipline in the engineering design group. Information on which company shall carry out the assignment (use of sub-suppliers) shall be provided for each discipline. CVs shall not be enclosed. Experience from similar assignments: Tenderers shall state relevant assignments including their value, date and recipient. Tenderers must provide a name and email address for a reference person at the receiver of each of these most relevant projects. The contracting authority has the right to contact the given references, but it is not obliged to do so. Requirement: Tenderers are required, with their contract helpers, to posses or be able to obtain necessary government certifications for fulfilling the contract. Documentation requirement: Valid proof of central certification for the right to be responsible in development class 3 for SØK and PRO, or documentation that the company fulfils the requirements for local right to be responsible for the measure within the same development class and functions mentioned above. For detailed information about which requirements that must be complied with, in order to obtain such approval, see the Regulations on building matters (SAK10) Third part — Approval and responsibility. Requirement: Tenderers are required to have a well-functioning quality assurance system. Documentation requirement: An account of the tenderer's quality assurance/management system, to ensure that the assignment will be carried out in the most efficient and purposeful way. Documentation of ISO certification will be accepted (e.g. ISO 9001).
Tenderers must have the finances for fulfilling the contract. Documentation requirement: The company's annual report for the last 3 years, or recent information that is significant for the company's accounting figures. ‘Annual report’ means the report that Norwegian companies send to the Brønnøysund Register Centre.
Requirement: We would like companies to be certified in the Miljøfyrtårn scheme, or to fulfil similar environmental requirements. Documentation requirement: Environmental certification. Requirement: Good implementation ability. Tenderers must have sufficient technical qualifications (competence, capacity etc.) to fulfil the contractual obligations. Hereunder tenderers are required to have completed reference assignments of approx. the same type, complexity and extent. Documentation requirement: Expertise: Tenderers shall prepare a competence matrix for the engineering design group. An overview shall be given of available resources based on education and professional qualifications that the tenderer can use within each responsibility/discipline in the engineering design group. Information on which company shall carry out the assignment (use of sub-suppliers) shall be provided for each discipline. CVs shall not be enclosed. Experience from similar assignments: Tenderers shall state relevant assignments including their value, date and recipient. Tenderers must provide a name and email address for a reference person at the receiver of each of these most relevant projects. The contracting authority has the right to contact the given references, but it is not obliged to do so. Requirement: Tenderers are required, with their contract helpers, to posses or be able to obtain necessary government certifications for fulfilling the contract. Documentation requirement: Valid proof of central certification for the right to be responsible in development class 3 for SØK and PRO, or documentation that the company fulfils the requirements for local right to be responsible for the measure within the same development class and functions mentioned above. For detailed information about which requirements that must be complied with, in order to obtain such approval, see the Regulations on building matters (SAK10) Third part — Approval and responsibility. Requirement: Tenderers are required to have a well-functioning quality assurance system. Documentation requirement: An account of the tenderer's quality assurance/management system, to ensure that the assignment will be carried out in the most efficient and purposeful way. Documentation of ISO certification will be accepted (e.g. ISO 9001).