Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-04-28
Buyer: Havforskningsinstituttet
Country: NO
Region: Hordaland
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48611000: Database software package | 48612000: Database-management system | 48614000
Estimated value: 1500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2017-05-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 2017/381 — Further development of software for the tagging and recapture method with RFID marking chips on herring and mackerel in order to estimate stocks.
Further development of the existing software systems for data processing, analysis and estimation for tagging and recapture of mackerel and herring with RFID tagging chips.
The Institute of Marine Research in Bergen is a leading specialist environment for monitoring and stock estimations of marine resources in Norwegian and adjoining waters. The institute has, together with Norwegian fishing organisations, carried out a project to estimate the mackerel stock by using the tagging-recapture method. We tag mackerel annually with RFID tagging chips, glass tag types ISO FDX-B 134.2 kHz, 3.85 x 23 mm, the tags are injected in the abdominal cavity of fish and then they are released into the sea to the west of Ireland. The tags are recaptured at commercial factories that receive mackerel catches, 8 factories in Norway, 3 on Iceland, 1 on the Faroe Islands and 4 in Scotland. We scan a total of 300,000 tonnes of mackerel per annum for recapture of these RFID chips. The project has had a period of development of aerial-reader systems that are specially made to tackle mackerel coming at all angles on a conveyor belt up to 50 tons per hour, or that water from ships is pumped at high speed into factories via a pipe (aerial system connected to pump pipes). Separate software and a database system have also been developed that automatically (via the internet/GPRS) monitor and process all data connected to releasing fish in the sea and recapture in factories, as well as process additional data on biology and catches. Furthermore, the software includes modules for analysing and estimating the number of fish that are released, scanned and recaptured per age group, as well as for estimating the number and biomass per age group in the sea. Everything is collected in one and same package system on the software side. See the short description of the different routines in the attached manual (FishBaseSoftwareManual.pdf )
The Institute of Marine Research shall now also start tagging herring with the same method and there is, thus, now a need for further development of the software systems during 2017.
Tax and VAT certificate, issued by Altinn, the Tax office or the Tax collection office. The certificate shall not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline.
Foreign tenderers are to provide certificates from corresponding authorities in the countries where they are registered for tax.
If the authorities in the respective countries do not issue such certificates, the supplier must provide a self-declaration on whether there are tax arrears and, if so, the size of them. The self declaration must be signed.

Eligibility requirements: Requirements: Tenderers shall have their tax and VAT payments in order. Documentation: Tax and VAT certificate, issued by Altinn, the Tax office or the Tax collection office. The certificate shall not be issued more than 6 months prior to the tender deadline. Foreign tenderers are to provide certificates from corresponding authorities in the countries where they are registered for tax. If the authorities in the respective countries do not issue such certificates, the supplier must provide a self-declaration on whether there are tax arrears and, if so, the size of them. The self declaration must be signed.

Award value: 1500000