Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-05-14
Buyer: Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72222300: Information technology services | 72246000 | 72250000: System and support services | 72260000: Software-related services
Submission deadline: 2021-06-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contest is for the provision of personnel to strengthen the municipality's IT competence and user support.
Ullensaker Municipality has established a new IT platform on Microsoft Azure. The platform is built as a code, according to the best practice in the market. A number of Microsoft components such as M365 with information barriers, Microsoft Indentity manager, Intune, etc., are used. Furthermore, Citrix is used as a publication tool for some applications. Ullensaker has a cloud first strategy for all components and applications. The network is bought as a service with an option for SD-wan.
In order to ensure redundancy in the new IT service, the municipality needs to get relevant competence as soon as possible. This can be competence areas that cover the entire IT service.
The procurement is estimated to be over the EEA threshold value. The estimated value is not binding for the contracting authority. The contracting authority estimates the volume will be approx. NOK 1 500 000 excluding VAT, but the need is uncertain. The volume can be both higher and lower, and will depend on, amongst other things, the contracting authority's needs, activities, budgetary situation and other framework factors in the contract period.
Tenders can be submitted for one or several groups. Sub-tenders and alternative tenders cannot be submitted for individual groups, nor alternative tenders.
The contracting authority retains the right to divide the contract between multiple tenderers and to assume all or parts of a tender.
The assignment will be regulated by the attached framework agreement with the accompanying standard agreement terms.
The framework agreement will be valid from and including 1 July 2021 until and including with an option for the contracting authority to extend for up to years, months at a time.
The contracting authority expects that the tenderer studies the contractual terms and makes the required internal clarifications in such a way that a contract can be signed if awarded.
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. The certificate must not be more than 6 months old.
The contracting authority is not allowed to request the certificate if he has already received it, in accordance with the regulations, section 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 in order to fulfil this qualification requirement, the required documentation for this must be presented. The contracting authority retains the right to collect supplementary information, bank guarantees or similar.