Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-12
Buyer: Bergen Kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72260000: Software-related services
Estimated value: 150000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2019-10-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bergen Municipality would like to join up with a licence partner for the procurement and hire of licences for the municipality's software, servers and services, which are currently provided by Microsoft. This includes, amongst other things, a maintenance contract (software assurance) for existing licences, options to procure new licences and the hire of licences. The current licence contracts between Bergen Municipality and Microsoft expire on 31.12.2019, and the new contract must be valid from 1.1.2020.
The procurement will be made in accordance with the public procurement regulations Part III) for contests above the EEA threshold.
Read more about the background and purpose of the procurement in the attached contract Annex 1 — The contracting authority's requirements specification.
The delivery must function together with the contracting authority's existing technical platform, which is described in Annex 3 — The contracting authority's technical platform.
The contract will be based on the government's standard contract for the procurement of software and equipment, SSA-K.
All the requirements and all the award criteria must be answered. Read the attached annex and contract carefully and contact the contracting authority if anything is unclear, or if you have other questions.
The contract period will be 3 years from the contract date, with a unilateral option for a further 3 years.
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.
In regards to any other economic and financial requirements stated in the tender notice or in the procurement documents, the tenderer must verify.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. The required financial capacity will be assessed in relation to the contract's value, services, risk and length.
Documentation for Norwegian tenderers: the contracting authority will check tenderers' financial situation from DIFI's eBevis, Proff Forvalt (https://forvalt.no/) and/or via information given by Creditsafe (https://www.creditsafe.com) and can obtain further information from the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Note that the tender documentation includes guidelines for how tenderers can supplement available information if they wish to do so.
Documentation for foreign tenderers: tenderers must, upon request, submit a credit rating report from a company that has a licence from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to operate a credit information company in Norway, possibly from a company with the equivalent certification in a member country of the EU/EEA. The credit rating report must be based on updated accounting information.
Tenderers must have a sufficient partner level at Microsoft in order to be able to offer licences for the enterprise agreement and campus/academic licences.
Documentation requirement: tenderers must document that they are a Licence solution provider (LSP) and/or Large account reseller (LAR) at Microsoft.

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.

Award value: 150000000