Search      Advanced Search

NO-Oslo: business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Contract Award

General Information
Country:   Norway
City/Locality:   OSLO
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:266213-2009
Publication Date:   Sep 25, 2009
Buyer:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MINISTRY OF FINANCE
OSLO
Norway
Web Site:   www.etikkradet.no

Goods, Works and Services

 

Summary

      view in:

Notice Type: 3380 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Economic Area (EEA), with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 185/2009, #266213-2009
Referenced Document Number: 36618-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Contract awards
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: Ecofact AG, Stampfenbachstrasse 42, CH-8006 Zurich.

Original Text

      view in:

CONTRACT AWARD 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.
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 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.1.4) 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 Government Pension Fund
-Global, the Ministry of Finance calls for tenders on a contract on
internet surveillance to identify companies in our portfolio which may be
involved in activities that could be in breach of the ethical guidelines.
An overview of the companies in the portfolio are to be found on Norges
Banks' homepage: www.norges-bank.no/upload/nbim/reports/holdings/
eq_spu_all.pdf.
The service implies a continuous surveillance of internet-based
information sources that report on those kinds of activities in English
and Spanish, and in addition other languages as deemed necessary by the
service provider. 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 be written in English or
Norwegian, and must contain information on the nature of the involvement
of the companies and the sources for the information.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 79000000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.2) TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s): Excluding VAT.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of
1. Quality. Weighting: 70.
2. Price. Weighting: 30.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Contract
notice
Notice number in OJ: 2009/S 25-036618 of 6.2.2009.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
TITLE: Ethical screening of companies in the Norwegian Government Pension
Fund Global.
V.1) DATE OF CONTRACT AWARD: 12.6.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 13.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: Ecofact AG, Stampfenbachstrasse 42, CH-8006 Zurich.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (NT Ref:180626).
VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Ministry of Finance,
Postboks 8008 Dep, N-0030 Oslo. E-mail: postmottak@fin.dep.no. Tel. +47
22249090.
VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: 15 days after the contract has been awarded to the
service provider.
VI.3.3) 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.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 23.9.2009.
Please note that this notice is for your information only.
We try our best to have the most accurate and up-to-date information available on our web site, but we cannot guarantee that all of the information provided is error-free.
If you have any suggestions for updates/corrections for this notice, please let us know.