Norway - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - Procurement of a cloud based system for overall performance management.

Hol municipality intends to procure a new cloud based system for general municipal entity management, budgeting, financial planning and reporting. The municipality intends to sign a contract with Framsikt AS (organisation number 913187512) after 10 working days. Hol municipality needs a system that shall be integrated with the ERP system Visma Enterprise. The system shall be used within the following main areas: analysis, preparation of the financial plan, budgeting, reporting and political interaction. The system shall facilitate simple production of an easy-to-use and informative action programme, budget and financial plan, as well as other ongoing reports. The most relevant modules are for analysis, economy plan, annual budget, reporting and politician module. Hol municipality has examined the extent of any alternative software available on the market. This has happened through searches on the internet and collecting information about procurements of equivalent systems in other municipalities. Hol municipality cannot see any alternative tools in the market than Framsikt AS ́s system, which covers the total need for general performance management at the municipality, in Norwegian, in one combined standard product. The procurement is outside the scope of the procurement regulations, as Framsikt AS is the only tenderer in the market for such a system as far as we have been able to uncover. Tenderers can deliver a comprehensive system for economy planning including production of documents and publication of the work. The system includes modules for analysis, review, plans, financial plan, annual budget, performance management and reporting. Hol municipality has not seen systems that can cover the need for overall performance management in the same way as the solution from Framsikt AS. The procurement will be seen as fulfilment of the Public Procurement Regulations (FOA) § 13-4 letter b no. 2 and no. 3: A contracting authority can hold a procurement without a competition if the procurement concerns "services that only a specific supplier can deliver" because "competition is impossible for technical reasons", cf. point 2, or "the tenderer has the sole right, including immaterial rights", cf. point 3.