CPV-koodi: Viemäröinti-, jätehuolto- ja puhdistuspalvelut, ympäristöön liittyvät palvelut

Qualification requirements, requirements and award criteria.

Background

Eidsvoll municipality has a continual need for professional winter operations and spring sweeping in order to ensure safe and accessible transport to municipal buildings and municipal residences throughout the winter and during transition periods. The objective of the procurement is to ensure continuity and high quality in the execution of snow clearing, gritting, removal of snow and spring sweeping, as well as safeguarding the requirements for universal design, environment and safety. The delivery shall cover a multitude of municipal premises, including purpose-built buildings such as schools, nurseries and nursing homes, as well as municipal residences, where prioritising availability is central. Tenderers must have relevant competence, necessary certifications, courses and insurances in order to carry out the described assignments. An active cooperation between the municipality and the supplier is also expected to further develop methods, equipment and work execution. The procurement shall ensure that the municipality has sufficient stand-by and capacity for ordinary and extraordinary weather events, as well as good coordination with other services and suppliers.

Description of the assignment

The procurement includes the execution of winter operation and snow clearing services as well as spring sweeping of municipal space areas in accordance with the stated route lists and the attached maps. The delivery shall include planned snow clearing suitable surfaces and conditions, mechanical and hand-wise gritting, removal and proper disposal of snow when necessary, as well as sweeping and clearing after the winter season. Tenderers are required to have the necessary equipment and manpower at their disposal to handle both ordinary assignments and extraordinary weather conditions, as well as the tenderer having a duty scheme/stand-by that ensures a quick response time when calling out. The work shall be carried out in accordance with prioritising criteria where buildings with many users and users with reduced functional ability are prioritised, and tenderers shall be able to present snow clearing and gritting routes on request. It is particularly important to calculate opening hours for schools and nurseries. Gritting material and necessary materials shall be costly by the supplier and used in a way that reduces intrusion into the building body and unnecessarily spreading to sensitive areas such as artificial grass fields. Sweeping shall be carried out with collection equipment and collected material shall be removed and deposited in accordance with the current regulations. The tenderer is required to report work performed and that shall be enclosed with each invoice, with separate invoices per business location that are marked with the specified identification numbers. The tenderer is required to control, notify and rectify damage to their own routes, have insurance that covers the contract's work assignments and reports other operational needs on the municipality's road network. The work shall be carried out in a way that ensures traffic safety and universal design, including considerations to users with function disabilities. Tenderers shall coordinate their services with other tenderers and the municipality ́s technicians and shall not carry out work on entities in operation without a prior agreement with a responsible operating technician. Quality assurance, environmental considerations and quick handling of deviations are a part of the delivery. The tenderer is expected to work actively with the development of execution methods, equipment and choice of materials to ensure effective and gentle execution of the services. The framework agreement is divided into six lots, which are awarded individually to one to six tenderers. The procurement ́s value is estimated to NOK 16,000,000. The maximum value is set at NOK 20,000,000.

The Norwegian Environment Agency ́s main assignment is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, manage Norwegian nature and prevent pollution. We are a government agency under the Ministry of Climate and Environment and have more than 800 employees at our two offices in Trondheim and Oslo, and at Statens naturoppsyn's (SNO) more than 60 local offices.

The contract shall mainly be used by the department of Waste, Chemicals and Supervision, and it can also be used by other sections and departments in the Norwegian Environment Agency as needed for consultancy services within circular economy and waste.

The Norwegian Environment Agency hereby invites tenderers to a competition for a framework agreement for consultancy services within circular economy and waste. See the attached tender documentation for a detailed description of the assignment.

The framework agreement includes i.a. mapping, reviews, analyses of initiatives, data collection and reporting.

Examples of what services the framework agreement shall cover:
• professional assessments and impact assessments for the execution of product requirements in EU rules.
• Assessment of consequences (costs and benefit) and challenges in the implementation of EU/EEA regulations within circular economy and waste in Norway (where responsibility for the execution lies in the environmental management). This can include assessing possible measures for effective implementation and follow-up and assessment of the responsibility of different sectors. 
• Assessments of how different reporting requirements in the product and waste area can be carried out.
• follow-up of relevant points in the letter of allocation to the Norwegian Environment Agency,
• amounts, forms of treatment and technology development for different waste streams.
• product currents such as quantities and value chains
• Share of different products in waste streams such as pick analyses of littering and waste containers in public spaces.
• The offered resources must have very good competence and experience with relevant rules and a very good understanding of circular economy and waste and relevant means.

Other assignments include facilities for meetings/workshops with the industry and summarising inputs from interested parties.

Services not included:
• assessment of human and ecotoxicological effects.
• ground pollution
• Sampling and analysing environmental toxins and other types of environmental samples in soil, sediment, water and air.
• assessments connected to the construction of, and emissions from landfills (the waste regulation chapter 9).

See the requirement specifications for a comprehensive description of the delivery.

The sale is not covered by the law and regulations on public procurements.

The competition is for the sale of return paper from households in Oslo municipality, a selection of business customers as well as from the contracting authority ́s recycling stations. The assignment includes receipt and treatment of the recycling paper.

The tender contest is published as a prior information notice through Artifik for competition and equal treatment. As a starting point, the competition will be decided on the basis of the submitted tenders. However, we reserve the right to negotiate all conditions, including absolute requirements.