Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-10-03
Buyer: Kommunal- og distriktsdepartementet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Other single
CPV classification: 72316000: Data analysis services | 73000000 | 73200000 | 73210000 | 73220000
Estimated value: 1500000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-05-30
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: New knowledge on the area management ́s influence on climate change and a loss of nature leads to a need for new practices and new systems for area planning. When new development shall to a greater degree occur through the sealing and reuse of already developed areas, in many cases the complexity and degree of difficulty of planning goes up. Increased degree of densification, transformation and reuse challenge both practice and rules. The shift to a more sustainable and circular use of the areas affects how regional plans, municipal plans, zoning plans and building cases affect both municipalities, landowners, developers and individuals.

KDD will strengthen knowledge and guidance in the use of the Planning and Building Act in order to ensure more efficient utilisation of developed areas and existing buildings through sealing, reuse and transformation. The assignment shall i.a. clarify the legal scope, planning tool and possibilities in the planning processes in order to ensure sealing.
Completed Annex 5 to the Contract, Price and Price Terms.

Points will be awarded under this award criteria after comparing the tenders ́ total price for
assignment, cf. annex 5 to the contract.
Documentation requirement: Complete annex 4 to the contract, Administrative provisions.
Up to 10 CVs for offered personnel with a description of the most relevant assignments for each of the offered resources as well as the function the tenderer had in the assignments. CVs shall not exceed 3 A4 pages per offered resource.

Points will be awarded under this award criteria after comparing the competence of the offered personnel. 
The following elements will be particularly emphasised:
• Degree of competence and experience with the preparation of plans/planning in accordance with 
the Planning and Building Act, including use of and preparation of the knowledge basis. 
for planning
• The degree of legal competence and experience with the Planning and Building Act
• Degree of competence in and experience with climate and nature, densification, transformation, 
Re-use and architecture
• The degree of competence and experience with relevant methods for quantitative and 
qualitative analysis, use of databases and methods for collecting data.
• Composition of a multi-disciplinary team with different practices and competence within 
relevant disciplines
• To what degree the proposed resource distribution is assessed as suitable as regards covering 
capacity and competence need in the assignment. More emphasis will be put on resources 
with the highest percentage contributions in the assignment. Connection between the offered 
Competence and intended roles for the offered personnel in the assignment will also be weighted.
Documentation requirement:
Completed Annex 2 of the contract, the Tenderer ́s specification of the assignment. 
The assignment comprehension shall not exceed 10A4 pages.
Completed annex 3 to the contract, Project and progress plan.

Points will be awarded under this award criteria after comparing the tenders ́ responses to the contracting authority ́s description of the assignment, cf. annex 1 and the suitability to fulfil the objective of the assignment. 
The following elements will be particularly emphasised:
• To what degree the tender shows a good understanding of the problems that are wanted 
Lit
• To what degree the tender ́s proposal for the method and the justification for choosing it are 
suitable for resolving the stated purpose
• Any proposals for other relevant, adjoining problems that will be highlighted in the tender offer. 
and the justification for this
• To what degree the progress plan seems suitable for deliveries by the deadline


Winner: SINTEF AS
Number of bids: 6