The contest concerns delivery of medical consumables for the participating municipalities.

The procurement includes medical consumables, skincare, nutrition and incontinence products. The contract will cover ordinary operations procurement and extraordinary deliveries of medical consumables to the municipalities, including infection protection equipment.

The contract value is estimated to be above the EEA threshold value. The need is uncertain. Previously, the contracting authority has procured for NOK 8,000,000 excluding VAT per year in recent years. The volume can be both higher and lower, and will depend on, among other things, the contracting authority's needs, activities, budgetary situation and other framework factors.

Anticipated annual volume: NOK 8 million to NOK 11 million excluding VAT. The estimate is non binding for the contracting authority. The maximum value, including any options and anticipated price increase: NOK 45 million excluding VAT.

See the procurement documents for further information.

Lots/groups

Tenders cannot be submitted for parts of the assignment, and alternative tenders are not allowed. The contracting authority has considered dividing up the assignment in accordance with PPR, §19-4 but has decided that this is not suitable for this type of agreement.

Framework agreement

The assignment will be regulated by the attached framework agreement with the accompanying standard agreement terms.

The framework agreement has a duration from and including 2022-01-22 until and including 2024-01-21 with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract for up to 2 years, 12 months at a time.

The contracting authority will sign a contract with 1 tenderer.

The contracting authority expects that the tenderer studies the contractual terms and makes the required internal clarifications in such a way that a contract can be signed if awarded.