Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting entity: URL: www.bergen.kommune.no

Address of the buyer profile: URL: http://www.doffin.no//search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA20550

Further information can be obtained from:The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

:Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to

I.2) Main activity

Water

I.3) Contract award on behalf of other contracting entities

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1) Description

II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity:

Framework agreement for clearing and securing rock installations.

II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Works

Execution

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Bergen, Norway.

NUTS code

II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4) Information on framework agreement

Framework agreement with a single operator

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in years: 4

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT

Range: between 2 000 000 and 4 000 000 NOK

II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

Bergen municipality, the Water and Sewage Department, administers water and sewage installations that include over 100 km of tunnels and rock halls. Since 2007 inspections have been carried out for control and securing measures have been implemented in order to take care of safety from collapses and avalanches in many of the installations.

The water and sewage installations in rock consist of a water treatment plant, water basins, cleaning plant for sewage water and transfer tunnels for drinking water and/or sewage water.

In the newer transfer tunnels there are pipelines for both sewage water and drinking water. In some of the old sewage tunnels the sewage water runs on the tunnel floor, in others surface water runs on the tunnel floor and sewage water in a pipe.

There is still a need to check and possibly undertake clearing and securing works in the sewage tunnel from Midtun to Flesland treatment plant and in the sewage tunnel from Indre Aran to Garnes treatment plant. Sewage water runs openly on the floors in both tunnels.

One sewage tunnel from Sælevannet to Knappen treatment plant crosses over the imminent extension of the Ring Road west tunnels at Sandeide. The tunnel shall be inspected and securing measures at the crossing at Sandeide must be completed before March 2012.

In the elevated basin and the long transfer tunnels for drinking water supply with open water surface, periodic cleaning is carried out in accordance at fixed intervals. In connection with the clearing, periodic inspections and the necessary securing works of the rock halls and the tunnels are also carried out.

Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Doffin web site at URL: http://www.doffin.no/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=243801
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II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

45221240 , 45252120 , 45252210

II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

II.1.8) Information about lots

II.1.9) Information about variants

II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:

The water and sewage installations in rock can be rock halls, basins, transfer tunnels and discharge tunnels. Parts of each installation or the whole of the installation can be secured gradually as inspections uncover the need for securing measures.

The securing measures can consist of rock clearing, installing bolts, rock bands, rock fall or interlacing net as well as shotcrete as needed.

The extent of the securing measures will, in addition to the rock quality, depend on, among other things, the use and importance of block collapses or avalanches in the tunnel or rock hall.

The contract will be formed as a framework agreement with one contractor, based on the estimated items and the accompanying unit prices. Settlement will be in accordance with accrued volume based on hourly rates and volume itemization from the contractor, checked by the construction manager/geologist. A final report for each installation shall be submitted.

The estimated annual turnover is 5 000 000– 10 000 000 NOK.

II.2.2) Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3) Information about renewals

II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

See the tender documents that will be sent to qualified contractors approx. 21.12.2011.

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

See the tender documents that will be sent to qualified contractors approx. 21.12.2011.

III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

III.1.4) Other particular conditions:

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: yes

Description of particular conditions: Any other terms will be in the tender documents that will be sent to qualified contractors approx. 21.12.2011.

III.2) Conditions for participation

III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) Other documentation required (please state below):

1. Requirement: contractors shall be a legally established company.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

2. Requirement: contractors shall have their tax payments in order.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

3. Requirement: contractors shall have their VAT payments in order.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

4. Requirement: fulfilment of HSE regulations.

Contractors that shall carry out work in Norway must fulfil the current health, safety and environment requirements laid down by the Norwegian authorities.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) Other documentation required (please state below):

Requirement: the company’s solidity.

Contractors must have good economic and financial capacity as regards their company in general and as regards this procurement’s character. A minimum character of "satisfactory" is required within 2 of the following criteria: liquidity, profitability and solidity, as described in Proff Forvalt’s rating.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

III.2.3) Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) Other documentation required (please state below):

1. Requirement: ability to fulfil the contract and capacity.

Contractors are required to document that they have an organisation, the resources and equipment that are suitable for fulfilling the contract in accordance with the awarding authority’s needs and installations in an efficient way.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

2. Requirement: experience from similar assignments/reference projects.

Contractors are required to have experience from clearing/securing equivalent installations below ground in densely populated areas (towns).

This requirement means that contractors must have experience with securing works in rock installations where there were also requirements regarding safeguarding existing technical installations, e.g. existing water and sewage pipelines of various dimensions, fibre cables, pumps etc.

Contractors must be able to refer to assignments of various amounts and values.

Contractors are required to document competence equivalent to development class 3– superior responsibility for execution (building, site or construction, technical installations).

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

3. Requirement: safeguarding the outer environment.

The assignment requires that the contractor has routines and systems that ensure a low impact on the environment when carrying out the assignment.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

4. Quality assurance requirement– general.

The assignment requires that the contractor has systems for quality assurance.

Documentation requirement: see the qualification documents.

If a contractor plans to use sub contractors for the whole of or parts of the clearing and securing measures, these shall also be qualified.

The sub suppliers shall document fulfilment of the following qualification requirements:

— Legally established company (company registration certificate),

— Tax payments are to be in order (tax certificate),

— VAT payments are to be in order (VAT certificate),

— Fulfilment of the HSE regulations (HSE self-declaration),

— Requirement regarding experience from similar assignments/reference projects.

III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts

III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1) Information about a particular profession

III.3.2) Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Type of procedure

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated

Some candidates have already been selected (if appropriate under certain types of negotiated procedures): no

IV.2) Award criteria

IV.2.1) Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications or in the invitation to tender or to negotiate

IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction

IV.3) Administrative information

IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting entity:

EØS 064-2011

IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 8.12.2011

IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

16.12.2011 - 12:00

IV.3.5) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

Other: Norwegian.

IV.3.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.7) Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

VI.2) Information about European Union funds

VI.3) Additional information:

(NT Ref: 243908).

VI.4) Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

18.11.2011