Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-09-07
Buyer: Statsbygg
Country: NO
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45111200 | 45212000: Construction work for leisure buildings | 45212310 | 45220000

Technical requirements: 1011303 UiO VTM — Prior Information Notice K202 Contract for Protecting and Moving the Viking Ships and Large Exhibition Objects
011303 UiO VTM — Prior information notice K202 contract for protecting and moving the Viking ships and large exhibition objects.
The New Viking Age Museum project at Bygdøy in Oslo includes protecting and moving the large exhibition objects in the current museum, which are three Viking ships and three alum-preserved sledges and possibly a carriage. Statsbygg plans to contract one or more tenderers to carry out the work. The contractor for the building and construction work will be contracted in a separate contract.
Interested parties who would like to have a meeting with the project are asked to contact Ivar Thomassen (epost: Ivar.Thomassen@statsbygg.no).
Statsbygg is interested in having a dialogue with relevant contractors before the contest. Contractors with relevant, transferable experiences/references within construction protection, vibration protection and/or moving large objects are encouraged to contact Statsbygg for 1-to-1 meetings where they can get more detailed information, the opportunity to present their references/solution ideas and provide feedback on the execution, contest and contract format.
The assignment will include a joint engineering design phase together with the museum conservators at the Cultural Historical Museum (KHM) and Statsbygg's special advisors, which will produce an implementation plan that must be approved by UiO/KHM. The execution will consist of the construction and testing of rigging for the protection and removal of the objects, assembly of the rigging at the museum, moving the objects on the rigging before and through the construction project and disassembly of the rigging in the completed new building. The rigging must protect the objects from decomposition and damage throughout the construction project.
The objects are very fragile and there will be strict requirements for several factors, including, amongst other things, handling, vibration isolation between the building and rigging, decomposition in the rigging, climate, etc. The plan is that the objects are protected in the existing building and moved over to the new building's framework before the building has been completed. The objects must then be protected in the final location in the new building whilst the building is completed. Osebergskipet is approx. 24.5 m long and approx. 5 m wide, with a weight of approx. 5 tonnes. The sledges, without their display cases, are approx. 2.3 m long, 1.1 m wide and 0.8 m high, with an estimated weight of approx. 150 kg.
The engineering design phase will start immediately after the contract has been signed. The physical work with the rigging at the museum is planned from August 2021, but the production of the rigging must start well before this. The objects must be completed protected in the current museum by 1 January 2022. The move to the new building is expected to be carried out in mid 2023 and the museum must be completed in December 2025.
The contest will be announced on Doffin in mid October, with the tender deadline in mid November 2020. The qualification requirements and award criteria in the enquiry will be relevant experience and reference projects, assignment comprehension, CVs for central employees, hourly rates and mark-up percents, and possibly other things.