Procurement of services for nursery services in Oslo municipality.

Eignungskriterien

• Company Registration Certificate

  • •The tenderer shall be a legally established company.
  • •Documentation requirements:
  • •Norwegian companies: Company Registration Certificate.
  • •Foreign companies: Proof that the company is registered in a trade or business register as prescribed by the law of the country where the company is established.

• Economic and financial capacity

  • •Tenderers must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to be able to fulfil the contract.
  • •Documentation requirements:
  • •The contracting authority will obtain a credit rating from Experian on its own initiative.
  • •The Contracting Authority reserves the right to obtain the company's last Annual Financial Statements including notes, the Board's Annual Reports and Audit Reports, as well as new information of relevance to the company's fiscal figures.

• Experience from comparable contracts

  • •Tenderers shall have experience from comparable contracts.
  • •Comparable assignments means:
  • •* operation of nursery school(s) privately through grants or as municipal nurseries and
  • •* of the size and complexity of relevance to this contract.
  • •Documentation requirements:
  • •A short description of nurseries that the tenderer has run in the last three years, including information on the contract ́s value, the size of the nursery school (the number of departments and children), date of delivery as well as the name of the contracting authority and a description of the assignment ́s content.

• Quality assurance system

  • •Tenderers shall have a relevant quality assurance system for the content of the contract.
  • •Documentation requirements:
  • •A description of the tenderer's quality assurance methods.
  • •Alternatively: Certificate for the company's quality assurance system issued by independent bodies that confirms the tenderer fulfils certain quality assurance standards, for example ISO 9001:2015.

• Environmental management system

  • •Tenderers are required to have implemented environmental management measures that ensure that the tenderer is suitable to fulfil the contract's environmental provisions.
  • •This means that the tenderer has methods for working actively and systematically to reduce negative environmental impact from activities connected to the execution of this contract.
  • •Documentation requirements:
  • •A description of the tenderer's environmental management measures. If a tenderer has certificates from independent bodies that document the environmental management system, they can be presented as documentation.
  • •Reference is made to the EU Regulation for Environmental Management and Environmental Audit (EMAS), and other recognised environmental management systems in Decree (EF) no. 1221/2009 article 45 as Eco-Lighthouse or equivalent, and other environmental management standards based on relevant European standards from accredited bodies such as ISO 14001 or equivalent.

Zuschlagskriterien

• Service Quality

• Price

• Exceptions can be made from the main rule in the Procurement Act § 5b on requirements for 30% weighting of climate and environment when better climate and environmental effect will be achieved by setting minimum requirements in the requirement specification. The assessment is given below. Rating

  • •The primary need in the procurement is the delivery of qualified personnel who provide educational services, care and follow-up of children within the current rules and quality requirements.
  • •The climate and environmental impact of this procurement is related to the tenderer ́s procurement of equipment for nurseries, foodstuffs, toys, art materials and cleaning articles. These conditions make up a marginal part of the total service delivery and are estimated to represent only 2.3% of the contract ́s total value.
  • •Due to the nature of the procurement and the limited environmental impact of the delivery, it is considered uncertain whether the use of climate and environment as the award criteria will give sufficient relevant and measurable differences between the tenders to achieve a better climate and environmental effect. The degree that tenderers can offer substantiated climate and environmental improvements beyond a fixed minimum level is uncertain, and whether any differences between the tenders will be sufficiently relevant and measurable to provide a real ranking of the tenderers. The contracting authority therefore considers that climate and environmental considerations in this procurement are best taken care of through concrete minimum requirements in the requirement specifications, cf. the exemption access in the Procurement Act § 5b.
  • •By setting concrete minimum requirements, it is ensured that all tenderers who participate in the competition must fulfil relevant climate and environmental requirements. This provides greater certainty that the desired climate and environmental measures are actually implemented in the contract period, regardless of which tenderer is awarded the contract.
  • •The minimum requirements include, among other things, requirements for the use of organic foodstuffs, environmentally labelled products when available, reuse and repairs of toys and equipment etc. The requirements are designed to give real and verifiable climate and environmental effect, at the same time as being proportional and adapted to the nature of the procurement and the market ́s delivery ability.
  • •Based on this, the Contracting Authority ́s assessment is that the minimum requirement will give the best climate and environmental effect in this procurement.