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General Information
Country:   Norway
City/Locality:   OSLO
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:36619-2009
Publication Date:   Feb 13, 2009
Deadline:   Mar 3, 2009
Buyer:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
OSLO  
Norway
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Notice Type: 3320 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Economic Area (EEA), with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 25/2009, #36619-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Feb 13, 2009


Notice Type: 8098 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Economic Area (EEA), with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 30/2009, #42996-2009
Referenced Document Number: 36619-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Ministry of Finance, Postboks
8008 Dep, Contact: Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension
Fund -Global, Attn: Charlotte Hafstad Næsheim, N-0030 Oslo. Tel. +47
22244574. E-mail: charlotte.naesheim@etikkradet.no. Fax +47 22244752.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.etikkradet.no.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.english.doffin.no/search/
Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0114.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact
point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned
contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
Economic and financial affairs.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Ethical screening of Asian companies in the Norwegian Government Pension
Fund Global.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 11.
Main place of performance: Oslo, Norway.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): In 2004, the
Ministry of Finance established ethical guidelines for the Norwegian
Government Pension Fund -Global. The guidelines aim at terminating or
avoiding investments in companies which may be complicit in the gravest
forms of violations of international standards pertaining to human rights,
the environment, situations of armed conflict and gross corruption. The
guidelines are described in detail on our homepage: www.etikkradet.no.
On behalf of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension
Fund - Global, the Ministry of Finance calls for tenders on a contract on
surveillance of companies with head offices in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
and Japan. The purpose of the surveillance is to identify companies which
may be involved in activities that could be in breach of our guidelines.
An overview of the companies in our portfolio are to be found on NBIM’s
homepage: www.norges-bank.no/upload/nbim/reports/holdings/eq_spu_all.pdf.
The service implies a continuous surveillance of internet-based
information sources which report on these kinds of activities in Mandarin
and English. The service provider shall collect relevant information, but
shall not conduct any analysis whether or not the relevant information
should lead to an exclusion of the company from the Fund. The service
provider shall produce a monthly report on the companies involved in the
above mentioned activities. The report must contain information on the
nature of the involvement of the companies and the sources for the
information. The report must be written in English or Norwegian.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional
information please visit the Doffin Web Site at
http://www.doffin.no/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=152478.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 79000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: 800 000 NOK.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: The Client will have an option to request
additional tasks performed by the service provider if the service provider
has the competence and capacity to execute such an assignment. The option
will consist of information gathering and reporting concerning specific
countries/regions, industries, or criteria otherwise explicitly defined by
the Client which pertain to companies in the Client's portfolio.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Fixed price,
quarterly payments in arrears.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Required that the service providers' ownership structure and conditions
are enlightened. In case the ownership structure creates a conflict of
interest between the service provider and the Council on Ethics, the
service provider will be denied participation in the tender.
One service provider will not be awarded both this contract and the
contract on Ethical Screening of companies in the Norwegian Government
Pension Fund -Global. See tender documents for details.
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 requirements are met: (1) Company
registration certificate.
(2) Value added tax certificate (National requierment).
(3) Company tax certificate (National requierment).
(4) Self-declaration regarding health, environment and safety in
compliance with Appendix 2 ("Vedlegg 2") of the Norwegian procurement
regulations ("Forskrift om offentlige anskaffelser" -- National
requierments).
(5) Other documentation required (Please detail below):
Legally established company.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (1) Other documentation
required (Please detail below):
A credit rating report from a credit rating agency, which shows the
service providers economical solidity.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: The economic and
financial capacity to fulfil the contract's terms.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: (1) Statement of the company's total
manpower.
(2) Manpower proposed for this contract (organisation chart) with names
and CV's of the key personnel who will be responsible for its execution.
(3) A statement of the quality assurance/quality control system operated
by the company.
(4) Other documentation required (Please detail below):
A list of equivalent work carried out by the company the past year,
including values, dates and clients.
Description of the service providers in-house competence in information
technology, mandarin, in the specialized fields covered by our 5 ethical
guidelines, and in local knowledge of the countries/regions in questions.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Relevant experience from
equivalent assignments is required.
Competence in information technology, mandarin, the specialized fields
covered by our 5 ethical guidelines and the countries/regions is required.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Yes.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged number of operators 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: 1.
Relevant experience from equivalent assignments the last year.
2. Key employees with relevant qualifications.
3. Systems for collecting and storing relevant information about the
companies.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
3.3.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 17.3.2009.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
Other: NO.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: Yes.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: There will be a new
tender in 4 years.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The competition documents will be made
available for the qualified service providers on our homepage:
www.etikkradet.no.
(NT Ref:152478).
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Ministry of Finance,
Postboks 8008 Dep, N-0030 Oslo. E-mail: postmottak@fin.dep.no. Tel. +47
22249090.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: 15 days after the contract has been awarded to the
service provider.
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: Ministry of Finance, Postboks 8008 Dep, N-0030 Oslo. E-mail:
postmottak@fin.dep.no. Tel. +47 22249090.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 4.2.2009.


Ministry of Finance, Postboks 8008 Dep, attn: Charlotte Hafstad Næsheim,
N-0030 Oslo. Tel. +47 22244574. E-mail: charlotte.naesheim@etikkradet.no.
Fax +47 22244752.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 6.2.2009,
2009/S 25-036619)
RE: CPV: 79000000.
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Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional
information please visit the Doffin Web Site at
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