A Framework Agreement for work clothes, foot wear and protective gear.

The aim of the procurement is to fulfil the Contracting Authority's need for work clothes and footwear for employees in technical operations and sites, the property service, cleaning personnel and personnel in nurseries and before and after school care services.

The total value for the contract for a 4 year period, for the 4 municipalities included, amounts to approx.6 000 000 NOK, excluding VAT. This is based on historical figures and must only be seen as a guideline. The figures are not binding for the Contracting Authority. The amount of the currently most used products, based on contracts, experience and statistics is given in the separate price form. This information must also be seen as a guideline and not considered binding for the Contracting Authority.

It is worth mentioning that free workwear is pursuant in partly central, partly local agreements between employees and employers, and can therefore vary between the municipalities, also for the groups technical operations and sites, property service and cleaning personnel. Such an agreement based scheme can therefore be changed during the contract period, both by the scheme of free workwear ceasing to exist and/or new groups emerging.

Furthermore, all employees in technical operations and sites and the property service (except commercial/administrative personnel), as well as cleaning personnel in all Løten, Elverum and Stange municipalities have free workwear. Hamar municipality has a system where the personnel working with cleaning and in the nurseries/the before and after school care, receive monthly payments for using private clothes in their jobs. As regards employees in nurseries and before and after school care, whether free workwear is given out and what this consists of varies from municipality to municipality.

See the separate specifications. See the annex.