Installation services of communications equipment

Description

Lillesand municipality would like to enter into a framework agreement for warning and communication systems for the schools in the municipality. A framework agreement shall be signed with one tenderer. Lillesand municipality would like to enter into a framework agreement for warning and communication systems for the schools in the municipality. The background for the procurement is that schools must be prepared to experience and deal with serious events and crisis situations. Serious events means events where weapons or another form of violence are used or threatened to be used. In order to deal with these kinds of events, the schools need a warning and communication system that enables warnings, coordination and communication to and from the management and between rooms and persons. The warning and communication system shall also cover the need that arises in more daily situations during teaching, for example, when a teacher or another employee needs to call for assistance and communicate with management or other employees without leaving the pupils/classroom. The framework agreement shall have a duration of 2 years, with an option to extend the contract one or more times for a further 2 years, to a total of a maximum 4 years. All the schools in Lillesand municipality shall be able to place orders under the framework agreement. An order will first be placed under the framework agreement for one school, with possible further orders for other schools in Lillesand municipality. The extent of the procurement, including the options, is estimated to be above the EEA threshold. The framework agreement gives the Contracting authority the right, but not an obligation, to award contracts within the framework agreement. The Contracting authority is not obliged to hire or procure a specific amount of products or services in the framework agreement period.