The Housing Bank of Norway would like, via this competition, to enter into parallel framework agreements for consultancy services within ICT with all the service providers who fulfil the qualification requirements in the competition. The framework agreements shall cover the periodic need for capacity increases and the need to strengthen competence that is mainly covered by the overview in annex 1 of the contract terms. In total the framework agreements shall cover the needs within all the competence areas, but it is not necessary for each contract.