Framework Agreement for the Procurement of Consultancy Services for Work Connected to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Description

The aim of this procurement is to cover Oslo Municipality, c/o the Health Department's (the contracting authority) need for strategic, administrative, and operative support for work on the Covid-19 pandemic. This procurement will ensure that the contracting authority has access to consultants who can assist the contracting authority with, for example, the follow-up and improvement of the department's planning work, and who can assist in the implementation of Oslo Municipality's TISK strategy (test, isolation, infection tracing and quarantine). Lot 1: The aim of this procurement is to cover Oslo Municipality, c/o the Health Department's (the contracting authority) need for strategic, administrative, and operative support for work on the Covid-19 pandemic. This procurement will ensure that the contracting authority has access to consultants who can assist the contracting authority with, for example, the follow-up and improvement of the department's planning work, and who can assist in the implementation of Oslo Municipality's TISK strategy (test, isolation, infection tracing and quarantine). List of areas where assistance is required: • support for the department's strategic management; • health and medical competence in combination with administrative management and government; • project management (PMO); • risk assessment, quality control and deviation reports; • assignments for the department's public administration work; • entity and organisation development; • assistance connected to operational needs within: — operation and logistics, — communication and media management, — HR (recruitment, staffing, and training), — procurements, contract law and law, — planning, analysis, reporting, — ICT and digitalisation particularly connected to the TISK strategy and other pandemic work. The Health Department will aim to have its own employees in as many of the roles as possible in the project work, but will try to staff the roles so that there is one employee and one hired person working side by side in most positions. This is so as to ensure good professionalism, capacity, and continuity. There can also be a need for the consultant to provide assistance with the line organisation when there are internal capacity shortages due to the reallocation of permanent employees to Covid-19 activities. The need for such assistance will be within the areas described above. It is not possible to predict the development of the Covid-19 pandemic or assignments in the wake of it. The total scope of the contract is therefore very uncertain. The estimated total financial framework, including the option, will be in the range from NOK 15 000 000 to NOK 21 000 000 excluding VAT. The estimate is based on approx. 8 consultants, where some work full time and others work part time. The Health Department envisages that the need over time will probably be approx. eight consultants in varying degrees of employment. The need can vary in line with the swings in the pandemic, but it can decrease over the contract period. The estimate is only a guide and is without obligation for the Contracting Authority.