Background:
Taking the environment into consideration often requires several assessments both as regards the supplier market and what shall be delivered. Experience shows that it can be challenging for contracting authorities to specify clear requirements that can be adhered to and criteria with appropriate weighting and communicate these unequivocally in the tender documentation, so that tenderers can prepare a tender that best suits the contracting authority's needs.
It can also be time-consuming for contracting authorities to evaluate the received tenders.
The content of the assistance:
Difi would like to develop mathematical models and related tools that can be used:
By contracting authorities when planning procurements, including tools such as sensitivity and cost/benefit calculations (e.g. what environmental gains can be expected and how much more or less money they would have to pay for x% reduction in CO2 emission).
By contracting authorities when they shall prepare tender documentation
By tenderers when they shall prepare optimum tenders
By contracting authorities when they shall compare received tenders, justify and document the result so that they can be added to the procurement protocol.
By management/control systems when they shall follow-up the use of environment requirements and criteria and their influence on the procurement choice.
By management/control systems in order to show what environment effect and gains they have achieved.
The set of tools shall support LCC's calculations as a part of the evaluation.
Difi requires assistance with the preparation of mathematical models and calculations, as well as the technical implementation of them. The technical implementation will be carried out by consultants in another contract as well as internal resources.
Competence is wanted in the use of standardised and structured information that can be sent and reused in other IT systems, such as contracting authorities' competition tools (KGV). We would like knowledge of/experience with technical and semantic inter-operability, preferably within the procurement area.
Most of the need for developing the tools will be in September, October and November. The start of the assistance will be 14 August. Good dialogue will be needed with the consultant(s) on which tools shall be developed. The assistance can be divided between several consultants in order to fulfil the competence requirements.
Option: Development of several mathematical models and related tools as described above.
Financial limit including the options:
NOK 500 000 excluding the options and NOK 1 000 000 including the options.