Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-12
Buyer: Politiets Fellestjenester
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 34710000: Helicopters and aeroplanes | 60400000: Air transport services | 60424120
Estimated value: 250000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2019-08-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Police need to establish access to helicopter capacity in North Norway, which will contribute to securing stand-by services for the police in the region. This can be for both acute and planned assignments. The service primarily comprises helicopter capacity that is available 24 hours a day, with a one hour response time, year round, for transporting personnel from the police with equipment over the mainland, day and night. Other helicopter services, such as planned and general assignments, simple searches and rescues that are part of police activities, and the use of avalanche searches, can be required. See the tender documentation for further information on the scope of the procurement.
The contract will be valid for 4 years, with an option to extend for 1+1+1 year, up to a total 7 years (84 months).
The selection of which tenderers will be invited to submit tenders will be based on the degree of fulfilment of the following qualification requirements:
— tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract (weighted 20 %).
Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established.
Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.
Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contract. Capacity that implies that the tenderer has good solidity and good credit worthiness will be sufficient to fulfil the requirement.
Credit rating based on the last known fiscal figures. The Contracting Authority might also consider obtaining their own credit rating of the tenderer, including a rating, all accounting information and the key figures that the Contracting Authority deem to be necessary. The Contracting Authority uses the credit rating company Bisnode for obtaining such information.
If a tenderer has valid reasons for not being able to provide the documentation requested by the Contracting Authority, the tenderer can prove his economic and financial capacity with any other document that the Contracting Authority deems suitable.
A. The operator must have a valid Air Operator Certificate (AOC) in accordance with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Part commercial air transport operations (CAT).
B. Tenderers must have experience from comparable assignments. For example, transporting personnel under arctic/climatic conditions that are equivalent to those in North Norway, day and night, over the mainland, or similar.
Description of up to 3 of the tenderer’s most relevant/comparable assignments during the last 3 years. The list must include a statement of the assignment's value, date and recipient (name, telephone number and e-mail address). It is the tenderer's responsibility to document relevance through the description.
— tools, material and technical equipment that the tenderer can use for the contract (including, amongst other things, type and number of helicopters),
— technical and administrative resources/facilities, (including, amongst other things, base and hangar facilities/locations, maintenance resources, facilities for crews, possibly other relevant resources for the fulfilment of the contract),

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established. Documentation requirements: Norwegian companies: company registration certificate. Foreign tenderers: Verification that the tenderer is registered in a company register, professional register or a commerce register in the country where the tenderer is established.

Award value: 250000000