The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has entered into an agreement with O.B. Wiik AS for the purchase of goods and services related to the construction of a temporary media centre outside Oslo City Hall in connection with the organisation of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting that will take place at the end of May-June 2023. The procurement is considered exempt from the obligation to publish a notice pursuant to the PPR § 13-4 letter a, cf. § 13-3 letter e.

The premises available/provided for the NATO meeting will not have sufficient capacity for the media centre (including the necessary meeting rooms, bilateral meeting rooms and offices for the press/media), and based on this, it is necessary to build a media centre outside the City Hall in Oslo where the main meeting will take place.

Currently, the estimated need is to build a tent of approx. 1,500 square metres with space for around 150 members of the press with editing suites, a catering area, workstations and press positions/press conference facilities - in addition to the need to build catering facilities in the tent, toilets, furniture, etc. In addition to this, there is a need to build an approx. 250 square metre tent for the accreditation office/area, as well as a possible equivalent tent for security control, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently aware of. Rigging is estimated to take place from around 21 May to 29 May, with teardown after the event.

Similar tents for accreditation and security checks must also be built adjacent to the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, where visitors to the meeting will stay during their stay.