Oslo Municipality Joint Procurement for Temporary Commercial Staff Services

PURPOSE AND SCOPE Purpose Entering into cooperative purchasing agreements shall contribute to the Contracting Authority achieving its goal of utilising its economies of scale by making the municipality ́s procurements more efficient and standardised. The contract area has been chosen based on the possibility of achieving this.

The objective of the procurement is to ensure access to qualified personnel for absences, holidays and extraordinary situations where it is necessary to enter with more resources than the municipality itself can at the relevant time.

Scope The joint procurement contract for commercial personnel includes, among other things, temporary staff in areas: case handling, accountant/consultant, office worker, exchange, reception, archive, customer service, IT support/employee (the list is not exhaustive). Oslo municipality ́s entities are obliged to make purchases with the tenderers who have signed a joint procurement agreement with.

The following exceptions will apply to this agreement: * In cases where call-off contracts have been signed for the current framework agreement, the call-off contract will go beyond the duration of the framework agreement. In such cases call-offs will first be made on the new framework agreement when the call-offs made under the existing framework agreement have expired.

* Where the entities themselves hire temporary resources as needed. The cooperative purchasing agreement has an annual estimated value of NOK 20,000,000 for all involved entities. The contracting authority draws attention to the fact that the estimate is based on previous consumption and the expected future need. The estimate is only a guideline and is without obligation for the Contracting Authority.

This framework agreement is valid for up to a maximum value of NOK 120,000,000 for all involved entities.