Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-10-29
Buyer: Oslo municipality at/ Utviklings- og kompetanseetaten
Country: NO
Region: NO081
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72212000: Platform-specific software programming services | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services
Estimated value: 360000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-12-01
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Is the tenderer in a bankruptcy situation? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers in such a situation is obligatory in accordance with the current national law with no exceptions, when the tenderer is still able to carry out the contract.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, in the event a enforceable verdict has been convicted of corruption by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Corruption as defined in Article 3 of the Convention on Combating Corruption, Involving European Communities or European Union Member States (EUT C 195 of 25.6.1997, s. 1), and in Article 2, point 1, in the Council ́s framework decision 2003/568/RIA of 22 July 2003 on combating corruption in the private sector (EUT L 192 of 31.7.2003,  p. 54). This rejection reason also includes corruption as defined in national law for the contracting authority or supplier.
Is the supplier in a situation where he has been forced debt arrangement? Specify why, under the mentioned circumstances, one is able to carry out the contract, considering the current national provisions and measures for continuing the business activities? It is not necessary to provide this information if rejection of tenderers in such a situation is obligatory in accordance with the current national law with no exceptions, when the tenderer is still able to carry out the contract.
Is the tenderer himself or a person, who is a member of the tenderer's administration, management or supervisory body or has the competence to represent or control or make decisions in such bodies, at the time a legally convicted verdict of participation in a criminal organisation by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of the Council ́s framework decision 2008/841/RIA of 24 October 2008 on combating organised crime (EUT L 300 of 11.11.2008, p. 42).
Has the tenderer entered into agreement(s) with other tenderers with the intention of turning the competition?

Eligibility requirements: The tenderer shall be a legally established company.
                Documentation requirements:
                Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate

Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract.
                Documentation requirements:
                The contracting authority will obtain a credit rating from Experian on its own initiative.

The Contracting Authority reserves the right to obtain the company's last Annual Financial Statements including notes, the Board's Annual Reports and Audit Reports, as well as new information of relevance to the company's fiscal figures.

If a tenderer has a justifiable reason (e.g. newly started company) of not submitting the documentation that the Contracting Authority has required, he can document his economic and financial capacity with any other document that the Contracting Authority deems suitable.
Tenderers shall have a relevant quality assurance system for the content of the contract.
                Documentation requirements:
                A description of the tenderer's quality assurance measures.

Alternatively: Certificate for the company's quality assurance system issued by independent bodies that confirms the tenderer fulfils certain quality assurance standards, for example ISO 9001:2015.
Tenderers shall have experience from comparable contracts.

Comparable assignments means the delivery of

- Development, operation and further development of support systems and integrations within joint systems and joint services.

- Operation and ongoing maintenance of infrastructure and running environment, including monitoring, patching and error recovery in close cooperation with the contracting authority ́s system operation agreement supplier. 

- Development, operation and further development of web based applications, APIs and micro services. 
                Documentation requirements:
                Short description of the three most important deliveries in the last three years, including information on the contract ́s value, date of delivery, as well as the name of the contracting authority and a description of the assignment ́s content.
The tenderer must have good capacity to carry out the contract.
                Documentation requirements:
                A description of the tenderer's average workforce, including the number of consultants and the number in the administration and management as of 1 November 2025.

Documented by the completed document &quot;DEL I Annex 3 Capacity&quot;.
Cooperation with the contracting authority and supporter in the digitalisation work.
Recruitment and quality of the assignment
Competence of named consultants
As the procurement concerns a service procurement where the Contracting Authority procures human resources to carry out an assignment, the Contracting Authority considers that the procurement is of its nature has a climate footprint and an environmental impact that is immaterial and therefore has not stated award criteria or requirements regarding climate and environment in accordance with PPR § 7-9. This is justified by the fact that any climate footprint and environmental impact associated with this procurement are beyond what can be seen as the nature of the procurement, and the nature of the procurement creates an immaterial climate footprint and an immaterial environmental impact.
Purpose

The agreement shall ensure that Oslo municipality has access to the correct competence and capacity to develop, manage and further develop digital services of high quality for inhabitants, employees and businesses. The agreement shall support the municipality ́s technological development and contribute to meeting future needs. The services provided in the contract period will be characterised by a high rate of change within technology. There are, therefore, requirements for flexibility, innovation and continual improvement.

This contract shall mainly safeguard consultancy services within system development, microservice architecture and running environment. There can also be a need for resources to support the municipality ́s strategic work for the further development of the municipality ́s microservice architecture with the accompanying infrastructure, and running environment with the accompanying framework and methodology. When large projects are run in the municipality, there may also be a need for technical project coordinators between the project and the development environment. In periods with high working pressure, personnel in more administrative roles can also be required who relieve the Contracting Authority and who support the development teams in their implementation. The contracting authority would like to use top competence where appropriate and would like this to be proactively promoted by the Tenderer as needed.

Extent

The agreement area includes the need for consultancy services for the development and management of digital services for Oslo municipality. The contract area as a whole will be announced as two different competitions and two different contracts.

Contract 1, this agreement: This contract shall mainly cover Digitaliseringsetaten ́s needs and a framework agreement shall be signed with one tenderer. Other entities in Oslo municipality can use this contract if the need is connected to Oslo municipality ́s central operating environment, it will be the Digitalseringsetaten who will make any call-offs on behalf of them. Digitaliseringsetaten is obliged to use the contract for needs connected to central operating environments.

See the attached tender documentation for further details.