Framework agreement for building materials, wood, painting products, fixing materials, tools etc.
AI Summary
Stange municipality and its housing company are procuring a comprehensive range of construction supplies, including building materials, lumber, painting products, fixing materials, and tools, through a framework agreement that may be awarded to up to three suppliers. The procurement is structured around an in‑store pick‑up system: municipal staff will select items from a stocked warehouse, collect them in the municipality’s vehicles, and deliver them to the various project sites. The contracting authority will allocate work among framework participants according to the distribution mechanism specified in the related documentation, ensuring a balanced and efficient use of the agreed supply chain.
In addition to the stated product categories, the contract places a strong emphasis on environmental performance. Climate and environmental factors must weight at least 30% of the evaluation criteria, with the shortest travel routes for collecting goods from the warehouse receiving the highest environmental merit. Mandatory minimums include limits on maximum travel distances, requirements for products with long shelf life and high quality, waste handling protocols, the use of wood from sustainably managed forests, the availability of type 1 environmentally labelled items, and broad access to products with Environmental Product Declarations. Suppliers must also maintain a qualified environmental management system, provide an internet shop that allows filtering for eco‑friendly alternatives, and comply with vehicle and in‑store guideline requirements. All these specifications aim to minimise the overall climate footprint of the municipality’s construction activities.
Description
Additional information: In accordance with loa § 5b, the contracting authority shall take climate and environment into account in all procurements in order to reduce the procurement ́s total climate footprint and environmental impact. The contracting authority shall as a main rule weight the climate and environmental considerations with a minimum of 30%. Climate and environment as the award criteria can be replaced or combined with climate and environmental requirements in the requirement specifications, if this results in a better climate or environmental effect. This procurement primarily includes a in-store system for building materials, where the contracting authority selects which products to purchase in the available assortment, picks the goods up in the store, and transports them to the contracting authority ́s locations. The contracting authority has carried out a market mapping among potential tenderers within the actual travel distance, and it is clear that all tenderers work systematically to safeguard climate and the environment, as well as product range, transport of goods to shops etc. The contracting authority has assessed that setting a number of strict minimum requirements that safeguard climate and the environment, in combination with an award criteria where the shortest travel route for collecting goods is awarded the best climate and environmental effect in this procurement. The reason is given below: Shorter travel routes for the contracting authority that collect the goods with the municipality's cars help reduce the climate footprint during the contract period, since the municipality still has some cars that go on fossile fuel. In order to safeguard the climate and environment, the contracting authority has also set minimum requirements for a maximum travel route to extract goods, requirements to carry goods with long shelf life/high quality, requirements for handling waste, requirements for wood from sustainable forestry, requirements to carry type 1 environmentally labelled product for defined product groups, broad selection of products with EPD, so that the contracting authority can make environmentally friendly choices when ordering, requirements to the internet shop as regards the possibility for filtering on environmentally friendly alternatives, in-store guideline competence as well as the requirements for vehicles in the contract period, in the cases where the tenderer must deliver goods. In addition there are qualification requirements that tenderers must have an environmental management system that contributes to a low impact on the environment when carrying out the contract. Parallel framework agreements shall also be signed with mini-competitions for major call-offs, where climate and the environment can be an award criteria.
Place of performance: The procurement is for a in-store pick-up system, where employees in Stange municipality/the housing company collect goods from the building warehouse.
Lot: LOT-0000
Title: Framework agreement for building materials, wood, painting products, fixing materials, tools etc.