Survey & Mapping Government Tenders in Norway

Accuracy specifications, control and the deliverables a survey contract owes

A survey contract is defined by its accuracy statement, and everything else follows from it. The tender should state the required positional accuracy, the coordinate reference system and vertical datum, the ground sample distance for imagery, and the point density for laser scanning, because those parameters decide the equipment, the flying or occupation time and therefore the price. A bid quoted against an unstated accuracy is not comparable with anything, and buyers who leave it out receive a spread of prices that tells them nothing.

Control and verification are what separate a survey from a collection of measurements. Ground control points established and observed against a recognised network, independent check points not used in the adjustment, and a reported accuracy assessment against those checks are the evidence that the specification was met. For airborne and satellite work, weather windows, airspace permissions and in some jurisdictions restrictions on aerial imagery are genuine programme risks that a realistic bid acknowledges rather than assumes away.

Deliverables and rights need to be specified item by item. Point clouds, orthoimagery, digital terrain and surface models, vector features captured to a defined schema and the metadata describing all of it come in formats that determine whether the buyer can actually use them, and the licence determines whether it can publish or share them. Public buyers increasingly require full rights and open formats so the data can be reused across the organisation, and they specify the metadata standard, because a survey nobody can find or interpret in five years has been bought twice.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys survey & mapping in Norway?

GlobalGov holds 106 survey & mapping records from 80 distinct buying organisations in Norway. The most frequent publishers are Statens Kartverk (11 records); Norges Vassdrags- Og Energidirektorat (nve) (4 records); Utdanningsdirektoratet (3 records); AS Vinmonopolet (2 records); Bergen Kommune (2 records); Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are survey & mapping contracts worth in Norway?

27 of the 106 records publish a contract value. The median is $380,000 and the largest single published value is $20.3M. By size, 6 under $100k, 14 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 79 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to survey & mapping tenders in Norway?

Across the 57 Norway survey & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 28 days. A quarter of them allowed 16 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 44. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 11 (19%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are survey & mapping tenders published in Norway?

Norway published 18 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 20, spread across 75 separate months of activity since 27 June 2003. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 21 September 2026.

How does Norway compare with other survey & mapping markets?

Among the 14 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable survey & mapping market, Norway ranks 7th by number of records. The largest is United Kingdom (944 records against 106 here). Within Norway itself, survey & mapping is the 50th largest of the 64 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Norway survey & mapping records on this page come from?

These 106 records are collected from 2 official sources: Doffin (77), TED (29). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-12.

Open Survey & Mapping tenders in Norway

Showing 3 of the 4 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Norway market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in Norway

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