Procurement - Consumables (incl. catering products)

Kort beskrivelse

The contracting authority would like to use this procurement to enter into a framework agreement with one tenderer. The chosen tenderer must be able to deliver all the requested products in the price form, and must have a satisfactory assortment of other products that are included in this range of products.

Økonomisk og finansiell stilling

Norwegian tenderers: After tender submission, the tenderer must give consent for TendSign to obtain and for the contracting authority to receive information about the above via Tendsign. After tenderers have submitted their tenders in TendSign, they will receive a request from Altinn for consent to share the tax information. The consent is valid on an organisation level and is valid for 3 (three) months.

Økonomisk og finansiell stilling

Foreign tenderers: Tenderers who are not established in Norway can present equivalent documentation issued by the authorities in the country where the tenderer is established. The certificate shall preferably be translated into Norwegian, but it will also be accepted in Swedish, Danish and English.

Økonomisk og finansiell stilling

It is required that the supplier is creditworthy, at least A in accordance with the company and accounting information system Bisnode AS (www.soliditet.no/creditcontrol) with the service CreditPro (henceforth referred to as CreditPro) or has the financial capacity to carry out the agreement based on the contracting authority's assessment.

Økonomisk og finansiell stilling

The contracting authority will carry out an appraisal of the tenderer's finances through CreditPro. Tenderers can attach other necessary information with their tender if the tenderer is of the opinion that Bisnode/CreditPro will not provide an accurate picture of the financial situation. The CreditPro service includes all Nordic countries. The contracting authority is not accepting credit ratings from other company and accounting information systems than CreditPro so that the Tenderers can be assessed on equal terms. However, for foreign tenderers outside the Nordic region, the contracting authority will use and accept a credit rating through Dun & Bradstreet Credit (via DNB, https://credit.dnb.com/).

Økonomisk og finansiell stilling

Tenderers that the contracting authority cannot find in the CreditPro system (or Dun & Bradstreet Credit for tenderers outside the Nordic region), for example, recently established companies that have not acquired a basis for a credit rating, must attach a declaration / guarantee from the parent company / owner / bank or similar financial institutions regarding the company's financial and economic position.

Minste nivå(er) av standarder

It is required that the supplier is creditworthy, at least A in accordance with the company and accounting information system Bisnode AS (www.soliditet.no/creditcontrol) with the service CreditPro (henceforth referred to as CreditPro) or has the financial capacity to carry out the agreement based on the contracting authority's assessment.

Teknisk og faglig kapasitet

The tenderer, or the tenderer's employees are required to have experience from at least two equivalent assignments in the last three years Equivalent assignments means the delivery of consumables within one or more of the product groups in the price form, with a value of at least NOK 5,000,000 excluding VAT per contract. Reference contracts can be for delivery to public or private organisations. Documentation requirement:

Teknisk og faglig kapasitet

The excel document ‘leverandørens referanser’ (‘the tenderer's references’) must be completed. For each reference assignment, information must be provided about the assignment's content, value, dates, the contracting authority, and the contracting authority's contact person with an e-mail address and telephone number.

Minste nivå(er) av standarder

The tenderer, or the tenderer's employees are required to have experience from at least 1 equivalent delivery in the last 3 years. Equivalent assignments means the delivery of consumables within one or more of the product groups in the price form, with a value of at least NOK 5,000,000 excluding VAT per contract. Reference assignments can be for delivery to public or private organisations

Tilleggsinformasjon

Justification for cancellation

Date:

02.06.2023.

Cancellation of contest

Cancellation of contest

See the contest 'Procurement - consumables (including catering products)' (22/13663). The contest is now cancelled pursuant to the Public Procurement Regulations (PPR) § 25-4 (1).

General

Pursuant to PPR § 25-4 (1), the Contracting Authority can cancel the tender contest with immediate effect if there are justifiable reasons. It has been determined through practice that a contracting authority is obliged to cancel a contest if an error has been made that can have affected either participant interest or the outcome of the contest, and this error cannot be corrected in any other way than by cancelling the contest, see, amongst others, HR-2019-1801-A, section 85, and the EFA law court's statement in case E-16/16, section 106.

Detailed justification

The contest included a text that refers to the award criterium 'service apparatus'. This award criterium was removed a short time before the notice. In an error, point 6.2.12 (on dispensers that are to be delivered in the contract period) has the following text: 'The system will be evaluated under service apparatus, including 'good total economy'. When the award criterium 'service apparatus' and the sub-criterium 'good total economy' have been removed without the evaluation of dispensers being moved to another award criterium, the contracting authority is left without a way to evaluate the mentioned dispensers.

When seen in the light of the basic principles in the PPA, it would not be responsible to continue the contest without a good way to evaluate the dispensers. The contracting authority that this gives us a justifiable reason to cancel the contest.

Before the tender deadline expires, the contracting authority can 'make corrections, supplements, and alterations to the tender documentation that are not significant' in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations § 14-2 (1). A change to the award criteria (and at the same time to the requirements set for the products in the procurement) must, however, be deemed to be a significant change, as this can be important for which tenderers submit a tender and can be important for the outcome of the contest. In order to ensure equal treatment in the process, a new contest must be held with adjusted tender documentation.

Conclusion

An error of this nature can only be corrected responsibly be cancelling the tender documentation and holding a new contest. There is a justifiable basis to cancel the contest with immediate effect.

New contest.

We hope that there is understanding for our decision. The contracting authority apologises for the inconvenience for interested parties. Changes will be made to the tender documentation, and the contest will be republished shortly.

Regards,

Even Arvik Langseth,

Consultant,

Group Procurements.

Mercell notice: https://opic.com/id/afdbpijqiw.

Tilleggsinformasjon

Pursuant to PPR § 25-4 (1), the Contracting Authority can cancel the tender contest with immediate effect if there are justifiable reasons. It has been determined through practice that a contracting authority is obliged to cancel a contest if an error has been made that can have affected either participant interest or the outcome of the contest, and this error cannot be corrected in any other way than by cancelling the contest, see, amongst others, HR-2019-1801-A, section 85, and the EFA law court's statement in case E-16/16, section 106.

Tilleggsinformasjon

The contest included a text that refers to the award criterium 'service apparatus'. This award criterium was removed a short time before the notice. In an error, point 6.2.12 (on dispensers that are to be delivered in the contract period) has the following text: 'The system will be evaluated under service apparatus, including 'good total economy'. When the award criterium 'service apparatus' and the sub-criterium 'good total economy' have been removed without the evaluation of dispensers being moved to another award criterium, the contracting authority is left without a way to evaluate the mentioned dispensers.

Tilleggsinformasjon

Before the tender deadline expires, the contracting authority can 'make corrections, supplements, and alterations to the tender documentation that are not significant' in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations § 14-2 (1). A change to the award criteria (and at the same time to the requirements set for the products in the procurement) must, however, be deemed to be a significant change, as this can be important for which tenderers submit a tender and can be important for the outcome of the contest. In order to ensure equal treatment in the process, a new contest must be held with adjusted tender documentation.