IT Operations for Nettalliansen

Nettalliansen AS invites tenderers to a negotiated procedure for a contract for IT Operation, with the accompanying service elements for Nettalliansen ́s owner companies. The procurement concerns the purchase of IT Operational Services, including: • Office Support applications (Microsoft Office 365) • Licence handling • SPOC service • IT security for the entire service. • Operation of the Network (Option)

CPV-Code

72000000

Requirement: Tenderers shall have their tax and VAT payments in order. Documentation requirements: Documentation: Tax and VAT certificate, not older than 6 months calculated from the deadline for receipt of tenders. Any arrears or other irregularities must be justified. Applicants from other countries than Norway shall enclose equivalent certificates or documentation from authorities in their home country for the payment of tax and VAT in accordance with the country ́s rules.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Requirement: The tenderer must be a legally established company. Documentation requirements: Documentation for Norwegian companies/tenderers: Company Registration Certificate. For foreign companies/tenderers: Equivalent documentation of registration/establishment in the country where the tenderer is established/has its home country.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Requirement: Good economic solidity and good financial capacity are required. Documentation requirements: Documentation that shows that the tenderer ́s last annual turnover is at least NOK 40 million and a credit rating from an independent credit rating company. Tenderers shall fill in and enclose the application Annex 0 Annex 3 – Prequalification Template, sheet "The Tenderer".

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Requirement: The delivery includes several services beyond development/adaptation, implementation, reporting, coordination, management and follow-up etc. Applicants are required to have sufficient professional qualifications, experience and capacity to carry out a project of this extent. Documentation requirements: Documentation: The applicant shall give an account of the capacity to be in charge of the delivery and fulfil his obligations in accordance with the contract, as stated in Annex 0 Annex 3 - Prequalification template. The applicant shall describe his total organisational capacity in accordance with the tables in the reply form to Annex 0 Annex 3.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Requirement: Tenderers shall have a quality assurance system. Documentation requirements: Documentation: Certificate and/or other description.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Requirement: Applicants shall have experience from similar deliveries. Documentation requirements: Documentation: This is to be documented by a description of relevant project and delivery experiences from up to 5 years, with precise descriptions in accordance with the structure of annex 3 - prequalification template. Applicants shall, as a minimum, state one reference project, maximum five. See the tab for "Reference Project". The description shall state, among other things, what the delivery consisted of in a relevant time period and approximate extent of the delivery. The description of at least one of the reference projects shall also include names and contact points for a reference person at the contracting authority.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Finances

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Functional and non-functional requirements

Losbezug: LOT-0001

Execution

Losbezug: LOT-0001

The contracting authority has assessed the procurement ́s climate footprint and environmental impact. The most significant environmental impacts of IT operational services are assessed to be related to energy consumption in data centres and technical infrastructure, climate gas emissions associated with energy use, resource use and production of IT equipment as well as handling scrapped electronic equipment. The contracting authority has therefore chosen to have concrete minimum requirements for these conditions in the requirement specification. The contracting authority estimates that this gives better climate and environmental effect than using climate and environment as the award criteria with 30 percent weighting. The requirements mean that all relevant tenderers must fulfil a fixed environmental minimum level and that the environmental requirements will apply for the entire delivery throughout the contract period. If the award criteria is used, it will be possible for a tenderer with weaker environmental performance to compensate for this through a better score on other award criteria. By setting requirements, the contracting authority will instead ensure that the identified environmental effects are realised independent of which tenderer is awarded the contract. The contracting authority considers, on this basis, that the use of climate and environmental requirements in the requirement specifications provides better climate and environmental effect than the use of climate and environment considerations as the award criteria, cf. the utilities regulation § 7-9 second paragraph.

Losbezug: LOT-0001

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 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, by enforceable judgement 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 control of 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?

Is the tenderer aware of breaches of environmental provisions as stated in national law, the relevant notice or procurement documents or Article 18 (2) of Directive 2014/24/EU.

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 legal verdict has been convicted of money laundering or financing terrorism by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set out directly in the judgement that still applies? Money laundering or financing terrorism As defined in Article 1 of the European Parliament and Council Directive 2005/60/EF of 26 October 2005 on preventive measures against the use of the financial system for money laundering and financing terrorism (EUT L 309 of 25.11.2005, p. 15).

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 of fraud has been convicted of fraud by a verdict handed down not more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Fraud included in Article 1 of the Convention on protection of the Financial Interests of the European Communities (EFT C 316 of 27.11.1995, p. 48).

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 legal verdict has been convicted of child labour and other forms of human trafficking by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period determined directly in the judgement that still applies? Child labour and other forms of human trafficking as defined in Article 2 of the European Parliament and council directive 2011/36/EU of 5. 1 April 2011 on the prevention and control of human trafficking and the protection of its victims and for compensation of the Council ́s framework decision 2002/629/RIA (EUT L 101 of 15.4.2011, p. 1).

Is the tenderer in an insolvency 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 aware of breaches of provisions on working conditions as stated in national law, the relevant notice or procurement documents or Article 18 (2) of Directive 2014/24/EU.

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.

Has the tenderer: a) given grossly incorrect information with the notification of the information required to verify that there is no basis for rejection, or of the qualification requirements being fulfilled, b) failed to provide such information, c) made reservations immediately to present the supporting documents requested by the contracting authority, or d) improperly affected the contracting authority ́s decision process to acquire confidential information that could give this an unlawful advantage in connection with competition, or negligently has given misleading information that can have a significant influence on decisions on rejection, selection or award?

Is the tenderer aware of a conflict of interest as stated in national law, the relevant notice or procurement documents?

Has the tenderer or an entity associated with the supplier advised the contracting authority or in another way been involved in the planning of the competition?

Has the tenderer committed serious errors in professional practice? If relevant, see the definitions in national law, the relevant notice or procurement documents.

Has the tenderer committed significant breaches of contract in connection with the fulfilment of a previous public contract, a previous contract with a public contracting authority or a previous concession contract, where the breach has led to the cancellation of the contract, compensation or other similar sanctions?

Is the tenderer aware of breaches of provisions on social conditions as stated in national law, the relevant notice or procurement documents or Article 18 (2) of Directive 2014/24/EU.

Have tenderers failed to fulfil all their social security obligations in the country where they are established and in their member state, if this is a different country than what he is established in?

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.

Has the tenderer not fulfilled all of his tax and duty obligations in both the country where he is established and in the contracting authority's member state, if this is a different country than what he is established in?

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 legal verdict has been convicted of acts of terrorism or criminal acts connected to terrorist activities by a verdict handed down no more than five years ago, or a rejection period set directly in the judgement that still applies? Acts of terrorism or criminal acts relating to terrorist activity as defined in Article 1 and 3 of the Council ́s framework decision 2002/475/RIA of 13 June 2002 on combating terrorism (EFT L 164, af 22.6.2002, p. 3). This rejection reason also includes incitement to, participation or attempts to commit such actions as included in Article 4 in the mentioned framework decision.

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, have been legally convicted of offences regarding professional behaviour in defence procurements?

Is the tenderer assessed to lack the reliability necessary to exclude the risk of national security?

The contracting authority shall state that in Norway there are national rejection reasons. These shall be described in the procurement documents. Tenderers must respond to whether they are in one or more of the situations described in the national rejection reasons.