Norway – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – Procurement of IT operations

The main objective of the Agreement is to ensure an IT system that can handle the contracting authority ́s system landscape and users in a stable, flexible, scaleable and secure manner. The contracting authority would like to standardise services to simplify and cost efficientise operations, at the same time that risk is reduced and the basis for further development of IT based systems is strengthened.The chosen tenderer must be able to take overall responsibility for the IT system and shall support the municipality in becoming a leading municipality for digital services, where digital first choice is central. This means that the services shall primarily be available online, and that the Tenderer shall contribute with innovation and further development of IT based services in accordance with the Contract ́s terms.See the attached annex to the SSA cloud for further details and the extent of the delivery.The procurement will be carried out in accordance with the Public Procurement Act of 17. June 2016 (LOA) and the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) FOR 2016-08-12-974\. parts I and part III. The contract will be awarded in accordance with the negotiated procedure after the prior notice, cf. §13-1(2).The tender contest is initiated with a qualification phase. Only tenderers who fulfil the qualification requirements and who have been invited will be able to submit a tender. The contracting authority plans to invite five tenderers to submit tender offers. If more than five qualified tenderers submit a request for participation to the competition, the contracting authority will undertake a selection. All invited tenderers will have their tenders evaluated. If the contracting authority chooses to hold negotiations, the contracting authority reserves the right to reduce the number of tenders to be negotiated. At least three tenderers will be invited to negotiations. The initial evaluation will be based on the written submitted tenders.If there are more than five...