Establishment of a service for payment transactions and account information for guardianship administration.

The guardianship administration is responsible for managing all major resources belonging to persons with a guardian or underage persons with assets. The resources for each individual are placed in a capital account where the person themselves is the owner, but where the public administrator is the only person with the authority to use the account. The accounts can only be established in qualified banks. There are currently 51 Norwegian banks in the scheme, and a total of approx. 35,000 accounts are administered with more than NOK 22 billion cash balance. This gives approx. 75,000 payment transactions a year.

The public administrator's administration assignments within finance are mainly:

- Overview of the balance and transactions

- Execute the withdrawal of resources from capital accounts

- All case processing connected to enquiries and approval of withdrawals is done in our separate trade system 'VERA', whilst payment files are currently generated in an integrated ERP system, Agresso.

As SRF is replacing the current ERP system (Agresso), the intention of this notice is to continue the current administration model in a modern financial component, as well as continue the use of the finance component with closer integration with the trade system VERA. We would like to get efficiency in the form of automation, flexible integration with the banks, and increased user friendliness.

The current system is primarily used to manage and monitor capital accounts belonging to the guardianship scheme.

The primary needs that a new system must cover are therefore:

- be able to receive payment transactions via an interface and generate payment files based on ISO20022 and send them to a bank. The system must be able to handle all registered guardianship banks.

-be able to receive account transactions from all accounts connected to the guardianship scheme in all qualified banks via ISO20022 and send them to the trade system via API

-be able to receive balances for the above-mentioned accounts from the banks and send them to the trade system via API

- balance incoming and outgoing amounts and balance

The current financial component is configured to communicate with the banks via exchanging files in Telepay format over SFTP. Telepay is an outdated standard, and SRF has therefore decided on the transition to the current standard, ISO20022. A replacement of the finance system will allow changes, for example, that some of the assignments that are done in the current finance system are moved to the trade system, and that the assignments in the new finance component are automated and managed by the trade system. It is therefore important that any new API can receive such work flow.

The public administrator does not keep annual accounts, and is not obliged to supply vouchers for the accounting. We do not want to procure a new ERP system, but a component that enables secure communication between the trade system VERA and the banks.

See SSA-L annex 1 for full details of the delivery requirements.