Norway – Various office equipment and supplies – Market survey consumables - input on the requirement specifications and price form.

Oslo municipality, c/o the Agency for Improvement and Development (the Contracting Authority) intends to procure a framework agreement for consumables for cleaning, drying and hygiene, offices, schools and kitchens/serving. The contracting authority would like input on the provisional draft of the price and product form and requirement specifications before the competition is announced. In particular the following points are to be answered: Annex 3 Price and Product Form. * Are guideline text understandable and clear? * Are there requirements for some products that are restrictive for the possibility of offering environmentally labelled varieties? * Are the minimum requirements for environmental label type 1 possible to fulfil for the relevant products? * Are the minimum requirements for fair trade certification for coffee possible to meet for all varieties? * Generally: are the specifications understandable and possible to fulfil? * Are there requested products that do not exist/can be offered? Annex 1 the Contracting Authority ́s requirement specifications. * Are there requirements that are inadmissible/outdated? * Are there requirements that cannot be met? Do you have other input? Feedback is requested in the tender management tool, with a clear referral to relevant product lines and preferably include proposals for changes.