Procurement of a framework agreement for consultancy services.

Kartverket needs consultancy services in several different disciplines and would like to enter into a framework agreement with a consultancy broker for the facilitation of consultants for consultancy services and assignments. The aim of this procurement is to enter into a framework agreement with one consultant broker who efficiently communicates and manages the contracting authority ́s needs for consultants, and at the same time provides a simplified administration and follow-up of the procurements of consultancy services. Furthermore, the aim is to procure consultants at applicable market prices. Assignments under the framework agreement will consist of communicating consultants within all the disciplines that the contracting authority processes, services that the contracting authority offers, projects and work groups that the contracting authority carries out and participate in, internally and externally. The consultancy assistance that shall be provided can be of an executing, consulting, technical, functional, economic, organisational, administrative and business character. Assignments can be booked on an hourly basis or as a fixed price assignment. The main service is the consultant ́s work effort, where the main emphasis is digitally carried out. The Contracting Authority considers that the nature of the service has a climate footprint and an environmental impact that is immaterial. Kartverket will, thus, use the exclusion provisions in PPR § 7-9 (5).