Dønna Municipality invites tenderers to a contest for a review of the land use part of the municipal plan (including the sea areas) and development plans. The aim of the procurement is to enter into a framework agreement with a tenderer for technical consultancy services for formulating the land use part of the municipal plan (including the sea areas), and for assistance with work on reviewing and a new formulation of development plans.

Dønna Municipality would like, through its work on community development, to facilitate possibilities for local businesses to develop and secure jobs for the municipality's inhabitants, and that the municipality is always a good place to live and work. The municipal plan is the municipality's general steering document, which must clearly state goals and the direction of choice for the municipality's development. Dønna Municipality needs to update and further develop the land use part of the municipal plan, a number of plans for land use, and development plans in order to strengthen this development work.

Dønna Municipality was part of the work on a joint coastal plan for Helgeland, in which 11 coastal municipalities in Helgeland participated. This work stated in 2015 and the Coastal Plan Helgeland was finally approved in 2019. Unfortunately the plan is already outdated, and getting a modern and updated plan for land use where the sea and land come under the same plan is a high priority in Dønna Municipality in order to meet the development need for businesses in the region.

Dønna Municipality has struggled with a housing market over time that cannot cover the needs of the municipality's inhabitants. There is a large need to review and modernise a number of central plans for land use and development plans in order to strengthen conditions for housing construction.

Dønna Municipality has a close professional cooperation with its neighbouring municipality, Herøy on planning work, and the municipalities have decided to announce simultaneous similar contests for consultancy services for work on plans for land use and development plans. The plan is to be able to use the same professional milieu as support in the work on the municipalities' plans.

Dønna Municipality has started processes in the current municipal council period in order to review the community part of the municipal plans, but the process has not yet been completed. The plan is that work on the community part of the municipal plan will be completed and approved by summer 2023. The approved plan strategy and plan programme for the community part will be a guide for the work on both the land use plan and development plans. The plan programme for the land use part of the municipal plan has not yet been approved, but the process has started.

The framework agreement will consist of, amongst other things, assistance with planning processes and formulating planning documents, impact assessments, maps, and visualisation. The tenderer must have a close dialogue with the contracting authority through the various planning processes, with the goal of cost efficiency and knowledge based planning.

Major individual assignments can be announced as separate contests.