3.4.1 Experience from similar projects.
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have extensive experience in infrastructure projects with works of a similar nature and complexity as the current contract, including design, construction, and operation and maintenance. The supplier must have experience in all phases of project implementation.
The supplier must have experience of model-based design.
The supplier must have experience with the implementation of infrastructure projects with a contract value over 700 000 000 NOK excluding VAT.
The supplier must have completed infrastructure projects in a way that demonstrates good ability, good contract management and a good ability to cooperate with former and current clients.
Circumstances that will be assessed include previous experience with:
— The organisation and management of contract work,
— The safeguarding of safety, security, health and the environment,
— Planning for progress and compliance with contract deadlines,
— Compliance with contract requirements for quality and documentation of this,
— Ability to collaborate with the client(s) and other stakeholders in the project documented in the reference projects.
The client will also place importance on information from their own assessment of the supplier and their subcontractors from previous work undertaken for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and other public clients.
Experience of financing PPP projects.
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have experience of arranging debt financing for at least one equivalent PPP project that has reached the operational phase.
The supplier must have experience in obtaining equity financing for at least one corresponding PPP project that has reached the operational phase.
The supplier must have experience of ownership of at least one corresponding PPP project that has reached the operational phase.
By equivalent PPP project it is meant a long-term infrastructure project delivered by long-term private financing in a contract between the public sector and a private operator, where a significant proportion of the financial, structural and operational risk in the project is transferred to the private party.
Organisational capacity and the necessary expertise.
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have the organisational capacity to fulfill the contract, with adequate staffing and the necessary expertise to implement all phases of the contract.
System for safety, health and working environment (SHA).
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have a system that shows that the supplier is working pro-actively on safeguarding safety, health and the working environment (SHA), with relevance to equivalent transportation projects. The system must be subject to periodic revisions.
Accident rate (H1-value).
Selection criteria:
The supplier or its key sub-contractors must have an average H1 for the last three years that is lower than 10.
The H1-value is defined as the number of work accidents with absence relative to the hours worked multiplied by 10^6.
Environmental.
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have a well-functioning and well-developed environmental management system based on ISO 14001:2004 (2015), the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme for environmental management (EMAS) or equivalent.
Quality control.
Selection criteria:
The supplier must have a well-functioning quality management system for the delivery, based on ISO 9001:2015 or equivalent, with relevance to equivalent transportation projects. The system must be subject to periodic revisions.
How the criterias are to be documented is described in B2 in the tender documents.