Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-02-11
Buyer: Riksrevisjonen
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48211000 | 72000000 | 72261000: Software support services | 72266000: Software consultancy services
Estimated value: 5000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-03-19
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Is the supplier in a situation where he has been forced debt arrangement?  Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer in a bankruptcy situation? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers made mandatory in accordance with the current national law without the possibility for exceptions.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, in the event a enforceable verdict has been convicted of corruption by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Corruption as defined in Article 3 of the Convention on Combating Corruption, Involving European Communities or European Union Member States (EUT C 195 of 25.6.1997, s. 1), and in Article 2, point 1, in the Council ́s framework decision 2003/568/RIA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (EUT L 192 of 31.7.2003,  p. 54). This rejection reason also includes corruption as defined in national law for the contracting authority or supplier.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, at the time a legally convicted verdict of participation in a criminal organisation by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of the Council ́s framework decision 2008/841/RIA of 24 October 2008 on control of organised crime (EUT L 300 of 11.11.2008, p. 42)
Has the tenderer entered into agreement(s) with other tenderers with the intention of turning the competition?

Eligibility requirements: Requirement: Tenderers shall have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract.

Documentation requirement:
• A credit rating based on the most recent financial figures. The rating shall be carried out by a credit rating company with licence to conduct this service. 
• The contracting authority reserves the right to obtain further credit ratings or other financial information that, but not limited to, annual accounts including notes, the board's annual reports and auditor's reports.
Requirement: Tenderers shall be registered in a company register, professional register or registered in a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.

Documentation requirement:
• Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate.
• Foreign companies: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Requirement: The tenderer shall have experience from assignments of equivalent nature. Equivalent assignments means the delivery of Software for MFT with assistance with set-up, configuration and introduction to a business where the Software is integrated with other software. Limited emphasis will be put on the scope/value of the assignments.

Documentation requirement:
Description of up to 3 of the tenderer's most relevant contracts in the course of the last 3 years. The description must include a statement of the contract ́s value, date and recipient (name, telephone number and e-mail address). It is the tenderer ́s responsibility to document relevance through the description. Tenderers can document their experience by referring to competence of the personnel he has at his disposal and can use this assignment, even if the experience has been worked up while the personnel have served another service provider. 
Tenderers shall use annex 1 of the tender documentation: Template for references to document the technical and professional qualifications that are submitted simultaneously with tender offers.
Combined price for licences and maintenance (four years) as well as the establishment of the system and an annual number of hours of 60 hours divided by an equal share per consultancy category based on the hourly rates described in SSA-R annex 5. Emphasis is put on the fact that hours are estimates for evaluation purposes.
Compliance with requirement specifications, requirements labelled 'ought'.
The Contracting Authority requests, collects and shares a large number of files with other public and government entities in connection with the execution of its audits. In order to safeguard good information management, this shall be done in a secure, managed and monitored manner that can be carried out by each auditor. 
The aim of the procurement is to procure a ready developed software for secure sending and receiving data from and to the contracting authority, a software for the so-called MFT - Managed File Transfer. The software for managed and secure file transfer will run on separate servers at the Contracting Authority and it will be protected by the Contracting Authority's perimeter security. The contracting authority envisages that the Software should also have functionality in order to store data at storage locations both on-premise and in a future cloud system/platform.
One year further length