Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-04
Buyer: Utenriksdepartementet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73000000 | 75210000
Estimated value: 80000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2021-01-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Utenriksdepartementet (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) invites tenderers to participate in an open tender contest for the purchase of research and development services connected to Norwegian foreign policy and development policy.
A total of 8 framework agreements are announced, for which parallel framework agreements can be entered into with up to three suppliers for the individual framework agreement. Combined, 24 framework agreements can be entered into.
Framework agreement 7: Democracy, form of government, MR, constitutional government, global and regional cooperation,
The tenderer must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established.
Verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established.
The tenderer must be qualified to seek support from Forskningsrådet (the Research Council of Norway). This means that the tenderer must be approved as a research organisation by the Research Council of Norway.
https://www.forskningsradet.no/sok-om-finansiering/hvem-kan-soke-om-finansiering/forskningsorganisasjoner/godkjente-forskningsorganisasjoner/
The tenderer must provide documentation verifying that they are qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway.
Requirement: the tenderer must have sufficient capacity and competence to implement the research assignments.
This means that the tenderer must have a sufficient number of persons at their disposal with research competence, who have relevant and professional qualification in relation to the framework agreement for which tenders are submitted.
The tenderer can use cooperating partners/sub-contractors to fulfil this requirement, but must in Appendix 2 make it clear that the tenderer also disposes of persons with relevant research competence.
In Appendix 2 the tenderer must give a description of the staffing they have at disposal for the implementation of the delivery, as well as their relevant competence.
If the tenderer will submit tenders for multiple of the announce framework agreements, the same person can be listed multiple times. However, separate documentation must be submitted for each of the framework agreements.

Eligibility requirements: Requirement i) The tenderer must be registered in a company register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established. Documentation Requirement i) Norwegian tenderers: — Company registration certificate Foreign tenderers: Verification showing that the tenderer is registered in a company register or a trade register in the country where the tenderer is established. Requirement ii) The tenderer must be qualified to seek support from Forskningsrådet (the Research Council of Norway). This means that the tenderer must be approved as a research organisation by the Research Council of Norway. For more information about the requirements see: https://www.forskningsradet.no/sok-om-finansiering/hvem-kan-soke-om-finansiering/forskningsorganisasjoner/godkjente-forskningsorganisasjoner/ Documentation requirement ii) The tenderer must provide documentation verifying that they are qualified to seek support from the Research Council of Norway.

Award value: 80000000