Norway’s national eProcurement portal
- a project overview
In July 2005 Millstream were awarded a 5 year contract by the Norwegian Ministry
of Government Administration and Reform (Fornyings-og administrasjonsdepartementet)
to provide a new procurement portal. In 2010 this contract was extended for a further
two years.
www.doffin.no
went live in December 2005.The new portal published notices for contracts with a
value greater than the EU regulatory mandatory threshold. However it also published
those in the band below the threshold and above 500,000 Kroner (approx £42,000),
which must also be published online to comply with Norwegian law.
The use of Millstream’s portal enabled Norwegian public bodies to make the pre-qualification
and tender documents available online for download by interested suppliers. This
download facility not only saved administration time, but also allowed the deadlines
for completion of the bid documents to be shortened by up to 12 days.
Norwegian is not an official language of the European Union, but as a member of
the European Economic Area Norway is required to publish tender notices in the Official
Journal. So in addition to the normal publication process Millstream also translated
all of the Official Journal notices into English before sending them to Luxembourg
for publication.
After 8 years, in November 2013, the Norway contract came to an end. However, due to the overwhelming success of mytenders in the UK,
mytenders Ireland and the national Norwegian portal, Millstream decided to develop their very own system
operated in-house aptly named mytenders Norge. mytenders Norge will now act as a central facility
for all public sector contracting authorities to advertise procurement opportunities and award notices.
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