NIH (The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences) shall during the period from June 2015 until the end of 2017 renovate major parts of the buildings. Several major public procurements of equipment and materials will be executed during this period. Also normal public procurements for the school will be executed.

The public procurement function at NIH is organizational placed in the Human Resources and the Finance Department and is currently comprising a purchasing manager. Since the number of public procurements during the renovation period will increase considerably, NIH requests assistance from a consultancy company in order to strengthen the public procurement function.

For several of the public procurement processes related to the renovation, the contracting authority wishes that the selected service provider shall function as a project manager and execute the entire public procurement process in co-operation with the contracting authority's procurement managers. This means contact and communication with several of NIH's joint venture partners. The selected service provider shall also support NIH's procurement manager and the management with establishing a public procurement plan/strategy for the public procurements related to the renovation project.

Apart from this, the selected service provider can also be engaged in the execution of the procurements that are related to the school's normal operations; e.g. entering into several framework agreements and execution of separate public procurements for areas not included in the renovation process.