Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-10-25
Buyer: UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30120000 | 30232100 | 30232130 | 48773000 | 50310000
Submission deadline: 2022-11-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contest includes the delivery and establishment of 'print as a service' for the University's locations. The contract also covers other legal entities associated to UiT organisationally or operationally, as an option.
UiT the Arctic University shall replace its current system for printing and scanning and will move to a service-based delivery where the supplier undertakes the total responsibility for the entire system chain including servers, printers, paper fills, maintenance and service operations, also referred to as 'Print-As-A-Service', for all of the University's locations. The service shall ensure secure printing and scanning with follow-me functionality based on employee and student cards, with associated quota system and payment method.
Historically, the contracting authority has procured for NOK 6,000,000 excluding VAT a year in the recent years. The value can be both higher and lower, and will depend on, among other things, the contracting authority's needs, activities, budgetary situation and other framework factors.
Tenders cannot be submitted for parts of the assignment, and alternative tenders are not allowed. The contracting authority has considered dividing up the assignment in accordance with PPR, §19-4 but has decided that this is not suitable for this type of agreement.
Documentation requirement: Requirement for certificate of paid VAT, tax and social security contribution. A certificate issued by the competent authority in the tenderer's country, confirming that the tenderer has met the obligations in regard to payment of VAT, tax and social security contributions in the country where the tenderer/contractor has its headquarters the (Norwegian certificate for Tax and VAT is combined and ordered from altinn.no, RF-1507, previously RF-1244) in accordance with the legislation in the country where the tenderer is registered. The certificate must not be more than six months old.
The contracting authority is not allowed to request the certificate if he has already received it, in accordance with the regulations § 17-1(4). If you have submitted a tax certificate to the contracting authority and it is still valid at the time of the tender submission for this contract the tender submission deadline, for this contest, you are not obliged to submit a certificate now. If this is the case, state when and to whom the certificate was previously submitted. You can, however, attach the certificate voluntarily if you want.
Requirements regarding the tenderer´s economic and financial standing: The financial capacity to fulfil the contract is required (ESPD: Part IV B.58-3).
Documentation: The contracting authority will assess finances through the company and accounting information system Proff Forvalt (www.forvalt.no). The contracting Authority reserves the right to obtain supplementary information about the tenderer's finances.
Any need for support from other companies in order to fulfil this qualification requirement: If the tenderer is dependent on other companies to fulfil this qualification requirement, an account thereof shall be given below. In such cases the contracting authority will assess the finances of the supporting company in the same way. The contracting authority retains the right to collect supplementary information, bank guarantees or similar.