Statistical software package

Description

Fredrikstad kommune [Fredrikstad Municipality] (the Contracting Authority) intends to sign a contract with a supplier of purchasing analysis tools, KMD. The contract concerns implementation, delivery and operation of the purchasing analysis tool, and will be valid from 1 December 2020 with a total duration of seven weeks including options for extension. (4 years + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year) The contract will be sign and owned by Fredrikstad Municipality. The contracting authority wants greater control and possibilities to analyse their purchasing. The contract authority needs a tool that can contribute to the work in making accurate analyses of the purchase in an appropriate manner. The procurements in Fredrikstad Municipality will be category-based, and therefore there is a great need for a tool that contribute to developing a good category structure, with hereto good analyses. In order to contribute with the categorisation it is necessary that the tool already exists, so that it can be fully operational in a brief period of time. The procurement has immediate need for assistance in analysing their purchasing with a goal of savings in 2021. On this basis, it is not relevant to sign a contract with a supplier who wants to develop such a a tool in the future. The contracting authority wants to procure a fully developed software that carries out detailed analysis based on contract information, invoice information and master data from the contracting authority's financial system. The contracting authority intends to sign a contract without a prior contest as there is only considered to be one existing supplier in the market who can deliver a software that fulfils the requirements and needs the contracting authority has for the procurement analysis tool, cf. PPR § 5 -2(1), letter a). This is particularly justified in the following point(s). — the contracting authority needs a tool that can read information on the invoice line level from all invoices in EHF format, and categorise based on the applicable version of UNSPSC, — fully developed, off the shelf. The contracting authority has held meetings/dialogue meetings in order to see what fully developed solutions are available, but has not managed to find anyone who can categorise the purchased based on UNSPSC. With this prior information notice, the contracting authority informs of their intention to sign a contract with KMD), pursuant to the public procurement Regulations §5-2, first section, letter a, cf. §5-1, second section, letter a.