Nursery Services for Oslo Municipality

Service Quality

Price

Exceptions can be made from the main rule in the Procurement Act § 5b on requirements for 30% weighting of climate and environment when better climate and environmental effect will be achieved by setting minimum requirements in the requirement specification. The assessment is given below. Rating: The primary need in the procurement is the delivery of qualified personnel who provide educational services, care and follow-up of children within the current rules and quality requirements.  The climate and environmental impact of this procurement is related to the tenderer ́s procurement of equipment for nurseries, foodstuffs, toys, art materials and cleaning articles. These conditions make up a marginal part of the total service delivery and are estimated to represent only 2.3% of the contract ́s total value. Due to the nature of the procurement and the limited environmental impact of the delivery, it is considered uncertain whether the use of climate and environment as the award criteria will give sufficient relevant and measurable differences between the tenders to achieve a better climate and environmental effect. The degree that tenderers can offer substantiated climate and environmental improvements beyond a fixed minimum level is uncertain, and whether any differences between the tenders will be sufficiently relevant and measurable to provide a real ranking of the tenderers. The contracting authority therefore considers that climate and environmental considerations in this procurement are best taken care of through concrete minimum requirements in the requirement specifications, cf. the exemption access in the Procurement Act § 5b. By setting concrete minimum requirements, it is ensured that all tenderers who participate in the competition must fulfil relevant climate and environmental requirements. This provides greater certainty that the desired climate and environmental measures are actually implemented in the contract period, regardless of which tenderer is awarded the contract. The minimum requirements include, among other things, requirements for the use of organic foodstuffs, environmentally labelled products when available, reuse and repairs of toys and equipment etc. The requirements are designed to give real and verifiable climate and environmental effect, at the same time as being proportional and adapted to the nature of the procurement and the market ́s delivery ability. Based on this, the Contracting Authority ́s assessment is that the minimum requirement will give the best climate and environmental effect in this procurement.