A contract in accordance with Part III in the Public Procurement Regulations for:
Debt collection services — a Framework Agreement for the New Vestfold and Telemark County VT19/5
The Contracting Authority is the Telemark and Vestfold Counties.
Telemark County is the host county for the procurement co-operation VT Innkjøp, which is responsible for the implementation of the tender competition.
A Framework Agreement for Debt collection services shall be entered into for the new Vestfold and Telemark County.
General description:
A procurement in accordance with Part III in the Public Procurement Regulations for: debt collection services — a Framework Agreement for the New Vestfold and Telemark County — VT19/5
About the Contracting Authority:
The Contracting Authority is the Telemark and Vestfold Counties.
Telemark County is the host county for the procurement cooperation VT Innkjøp, which is responsible for the implementation of the tender competition.
The 2 counties have a total of just over 420 000 inhabitants and approx. 3 800 employees. The counties are politically governed at regional administration level, with their own county council and county mayor as the top manager. The 2 counties have their own administration with the accompanying entities. The counties have an important assignment in society and are central development actors. The main assignment is to operate and develop the counties within sixth form college education, transport and dental health and to see to the role of regional development actor by facilitating the development of businesses and jobs, influencing how areas are used, preserving cultural memorials, landscape and environment qualities.
The counties are actively working on digitalising services and work processes. It is important to ensure good future-orientated systems that support fully-digitalised work processes. Joint ICT platforms and systems must be modern and have good availability and performance. This also applies to this contract.
Further details on the counties can be found on their respective homepages.
— Vestfold County,
— Telemark County.
The Norwegian Parliament has decided that the county structure in Norway shall change. Vestfold and Telemark fylkeskommune are currently 2 separate counties. As a result of the Norwegian Parliament's decision, Vestfold and Telemark will be merged into a new county from 1.1.2020. The new large county (New Vestfold and Telemark County) will have the new organisation number 821227062.
Description of the Contracting Authority's requirement for:
A Framework Agreement regarding debt collection services for the New Vestfold and Telemark County from 1.1.2020. The objective of the procurement is to cover the Contracting Authority's requirements for collection of overdue debt.
The procurement value is estimated to: 400 000 NOK excluding VAT per annum.
The given value is only an estimate. The value must therefore be considered an estimate and is not binding.
See Part 2A: the Requirement Specification for further information and requirements.
The Contracting Authority shall enter into a contract with 1 — one tenderer.
The Contracting Authority is obliged to undertake purchases with the tender with whom the Framework Agreement is entered into, and the selected tenderer is, after orders are placed by the Contracting Authority obliged to deliver in accordance with the Framework Agreement. In case of call-offs against the Framework Agreement the Contracting Authority must be liable as a joint contractor for implementation of the contract.