The Agency for Urban Environment plans, builds and maintains public urban areas, playgrounds, parks, hiking trails, roads, foot and cycle lanes, short cuts and traffic safety measures. The objective of this invitation to tender is to enter into a framework agreement for engineering design and consultancy services for the Agency's investment projects. The total investment budget has a scope of approx. NOK 600 million a year.
The Agency for Urban Environment would like to enter into parallel framework agreements with 4 tenderers for engineering design and consultancy services for the Agency's investment projects related to the technical infrastructure.
The framework agreements must cover the requirements for engineering design and consultancy services in public urban areas, including foot and cycle paths, hiking trails as well as traffic safety measures for the subject areas: detail planning for roads, traffic safety measures, bridge and brick structures, preparation of zoning plans - complete, costs assessment of sequencing requirements in zoning plans, preparation of building applications, risk analysis related to construction works, as well as follow-up the contracting phase.
The framework agreement will cover the following:
- Engineering design group manager (PGL)
- Consulting civil engineer (RIB)
- Consulting electrical engineer (RIE)
- Consulting water and sewage engineer (RIVA)
- Consulting landscape architecture engineer (LARK)
- Consulting Environment Engineer (RIM)
- Consulting engineer building applications (SØK)
- Consulting engineer road and traffic (RIVeg)
Tenderers must also be able to provide other disciplines upon request.
Tenderers must be able to offer all the disciplines, either with their own resources, or by using sub-suppliers.
- The framework agreement(s) will have a duration of 2 years with an option for a further 1+1 year.
- The value of the framework agreement, including options, is estimated to be approx. NOK 50 million. excluding VAT. This estimate is based on the existing scope of services, and is not binding for the contracting authority, and can be subject to change.
- Distribution mechanisms for assignments included in the agreement are carried out as direct call-offs or by mini competitions. The distribution of the assignments is further described in annex 3; the Administrative Regulations.
- The award criteria the Contracting Authority can use for contract award are further described in the tender documentation.
Each call-off will be regulated by either:
- NS 8401 General contract provisions for preliminary design assignments (the 2010 edition), or
-NS 8402 General contract provisions for consultancy contracts remunerated according to time spent (the 2010 edition).
Each call-off will state which of the above-mentioned standard contracts will be used for the assignment.