Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-06-17
Buyer: Stiftelsen Tradebroker
Country: NO
Region: NO084
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 09310000 | 66140000
Estimated value: 7000000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2025-08-22
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: Tenderers shall have their tax and VAT payments in order.
                Documentation requirements:
                Tenderers shall submit a valid tax and VAT certificate, not older than 6 months.
The tenderer shall be a legally established company.
                Documentation requirements:
                Tenderers shall submit a valid Company Registration Certificate, not older than 6 months.
Tenderers shall have sufficient economic and financial capacity to fulfil the contractual obligations and be robust enough to tole fluctuations in currency, electricity prices, interest rates and the delivery situation. The intention is to give the contracting authority security that the tenderer will be financially viable throughout the period of the agreement.
                Documentation requirements:
                Tenderers shall, at a minimum, have an annual turnover of NOK 500 million alone, or alternatively through a parent company. If tenderers use the capacity of another company in this manner to fulfil the requirement, Tradebroker requires that they are joint and severally liable for the execution of the contract, cf. FYF § 12-5 (4).
Financial considerations
Qualitative considerations
Tradebroker has carried out market surveys with several tenderers in this procurement in order to map possible environment criteria, as well as carried out dialogue with DFØ. Furthermore, refer to the newly settled case KOFA 2024/1422 between Fjordkraft and the University of Bergen, section 43:

"All of the assignments that shall be carried out under the contract are assignments that are carried out by one or several employees in an office with access to the right tools. The main performance that the employee makes is to assess which purchases make sense to the customer and then carry out these. Administrative assignments will also be carried out for the purchases and execution of the contract" cf. KOFA 2024/1422 section 43. The conclusion to KOFA in the mentioned case, cf. section 44, is that the execution of the assignments has a small climate and environmental impact. The mentioned case includes the same products and services as the procurement for Tradebroker concerns.

Furthermore, there are consultant and analysis services that shall be procured here on DFØ ́s overview of procurements that are considered to have a climate footprint and an environmental impact that is immaterial:

https://anskaffelser.no/verktoy/veiledere/veileder-til-regler-om-klima-og-miljohensyn-i-offentlige-anskaffelser/7-anskaffelser-som-etter-sin-art-har-uvesentlig-klimaavtrykk-og-miljobelastning

Tradebroker has, based on the reviewed, concluded that the procurement has, in its nature, a climate and environmental impact that is immaterial, cf. the Supply Regulations § 7-9 (5). The environment will therefore not be weighted in this procurement.

In this procurement, the Contracting Authority chooses to make requirements for guarantees of origin in order to give our members the opportunity to purchase renewable energy. It is up to each individual member to choose whether they want to purchase guarantees of origin on the contract.
Tradebroker will, on behalf of its member companies, enter into a framework agreement with two tenderers for the provision of electricity with the accompanying services.

The members currently have a combined annual delivery volume of approx. 1.2 TWh and Tradebroker would like to offer framework agreements for electricity to the market ́s most competitive terms for its members. Competitive terms means both the financial criteria as well as consideration to quality and implementation ability. These are further described in the attached information on award criteria in Artifik.

The contracting authority ́s members shall have great flexibility in choosing suitable systems and strategies.

See the attached tender documentation for further information.
Two years.
            The right to extend the contract for up to 2 x 2 years.

Winner: Statnett SF