Data network management services

Description

Sirkula IKS intends to enter into a cooperation contract with Hedmark IKT (hereafter called HIKT) without a prior contest for ICT operations. The annual value of the contract is estimated to be approx. 1 000 000 NOK. The procurement is not covered by the regulations as it is for execution under our management, cf. the public procurement regulations chapter 3. Sirkula IKS plans to enter into a cooperation contract with HIKT at the earliest 10 days after this notice has been published. Sirkula IKS is owned by Hamar, Ringsaker, Løten and Stange Municipalities. Three of these municipalities, Hamar, Stange and Løten, are part of an inter-municipal collaboration on ICT operations through the company 'Hedmark IKT', with Hamar being the host municipality. HIKT does not have commercial aims and is run in accordance with full cost principles. The sanitation plan, which was formulated in cooperation with the owner municipalities, has frameworks and guidelines for the cooperation on the services that Sirkula IKS and the owner municipalities provide for inhabitants. The development is moving towards even closer collaboration on uniform drift and uniform processes, and there is an expressed need for more digitalisation, collection of data and analyses. A prerequisite for this is the coordination of joint infrastructure, information security and technical systems. It is, therefore, also necessary for Sirkula IKS to cooperate with its owner municipalities on ICT services. This also involves entering into an IT partnership with HIKT in order to achieve the development and goals that Sirkula IKS' owner municipalities have set. See the complete explanation in annex D1 in the notice.