Fredrikstad municipality and Hvaler municipality are hereafter called the contracting authority. Fredrikstad municipality is responsible for the procurement process.

For information about the Contracting Authority see; www.fredrikstad.kommune.no and www.hvaler.kommune.no

The contracting authority hereby invites tenderers to a competition for a contract for the procurement of promotional items.

The agreement shall include gift items, leisure items, random items and other promotional items.

The Contracting Authority mainly uses promotional items for arrangements, projects, and as gifts in connection with visitors, travels and gifts to own employees.

Fredrikstad municipality is an environment municipality where the paramount objective is to contribute to a sustainable community development. Fredrikstad municipality is working with achieving a status as a Fairtrade municipality.

Fredrikstad municipality is celebrating its 450 year anniversary in 2017 and in 2019 Tall Ships Races shall be arranged in Fredrikstad. These are examples of arrangements with possible requirements for promotional items, where concrete requirements are yet to be defined.

The framework agreement shall at all times cover the current need for promotional items for the Contracting Authority.

A framework agreement will be signed with 1 supplier. The framework agreement period is 2 years. The Contracting Authority shall have the option to extend the framework agreement for a further 1 year + 1 year, to a total maximum of 4 years.

The estimated value of the framework agreement is from 1 380 000 NOK to 2 100 000 NOK, over a 4-year period.

The scope of the agreement is difficult to estimate, both in terms of the type of products and volume.

The Contracting Authority shall have the possibility of ordering products as needed and from the tenderer's complete product range.

The Contracting Authority has chosen some products that they may wish to consider ordering in the contract period. These products will form the basis for evaluating price and quality in the contest. See appendix 3, price form, tab ‘buy basic range’.

The contracting authority reserves the right to getting products covered by this framework agreement from other suppliers if they are sponsored.

See the specifications, annex 2 and the price form, annex 3, for further information on the procurement's estimated value and content.