Software licenses for Qlik Cloud

Description

Vygruppen AS (Vy) has decided to enter into a license agreement with Twoday AS for the delivery of licenses to Qlik Cloud. The agreement entails ongoing licenses for Qlik Cloud. The announcement of intent is based on Section 9-3 (b) (2) of the Supply Regulations. Lot 1: Vy currently has visualization tools provided by Qlik. This solution is on-prem. Vy has limited capacity on on-prem servers and currently spends considerable resources on maintaining servers associated with the current solution. Based on this, Vy needs a data visualization tool in the cloud. This is further supported by Vy’s strategy of choosing cloud solutions where available. Vy has used considerable resources and costs to develop data models for visualization in Qlik. It is difficult to estimate the exact number of hours and costs spent on developing current models, but the total amount invested in the development of computer models is estimated at NOK 50–100 million. Today's solution is written in Qlik Sense, and Qlik can now offer a cloud solution (Qlik Cloud). In the event of a move to Qlik Cloud, there will be very limited migration costs associated with moving models from on-prem to cloud. Other tools cannot reuse the same models without extensive work to rewrite them, on the grounds of: 1. Each technology has requirements for the data and how it is structured. Therefore, re-establishment and restructuring of source tables is required 2. All transformation (aggregation, sorting, supplementing data, etc.) must be done again because this is done differently 3. All formulas used in calculation must be reviewed and rewritten in a new language 4. All visualization must be done again in a new system The work on rewriting as described above has an estimated cost of 14 – 15 MNOK on the data models that will be migrated to a cloud solution. License cost for Qlik Cloud is 1.3 MNOK per year. The estimated value of the procurement is 5.2 MNOK, in accordance with Section 5-3 (12) of the Supply Regulations. The agreement is ongoing with renewal on an annual basis. Section 9-3 (b) (2) of the Supply Regulations stipulates that there must be no "reasonable alternatives". "Reasonable alternatives" must be understood as economically reasonable and in line with the purpose of the Act for efficient use of resources. Based on the costs described above in the context of the value of the acquisition, Vy believes that using a solution other than Qlik Cloud is not a "reasonable alternative". After research in the market, we have found two suppliers that can deliver Qlik Cloud to Vy. One of these suppliers has given explicit feedback that it is not appropriate to participate in a competition. Therefore, Twoday AS is the chosen supplier in this procurement.