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Rammeavtale for tolketjenester
Notice number: 2026-113646
KEY INFORMATION
- Submission deadline
- • Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- Contracting authority
- Rennebu kommune
- Accepted Languages
- Norwegian
- Tender type
- Contract Value
- Published date
- Aug 29, 2026
TENDER DESCRIPTION
This tender seeks to establish a comprehensive framework agreement for interpretation services for Rennebu kommune, encompassing on-site, screen/video, and telephone interpretation across various municipal service areas including health, care, and social services. Suppliers are required to provide services in mandatory languages such as Somali, Arabic, and Polish, prioritizing qualified interpreters registered in the National Interpreter Register. Key technical requirements include offering remote interpretation via platforms like Teams or Zoom with satisfactory audio/video quality, ensuring all solutions and processes adhere to stringent privacy, confidentiality, and information security regulations. The contract will commence on January 1, 2027, for an initial two-year period, with the client holding unilateral options to extend twice by one year each, potentially extending the total duration to four years. Furthermore, bidders must demonstrate economic capacity by providing a recent credit rating from a publicly approved institution, with a minimum requirement of being creditworthy, and the deadline for submitting offers is October 9, 2026.
TENDER BRIEF
The contract timeline is as follows:
- Anticipated Contract Start Date: January 1, 2027.
- Initial Duration: Two years.
- Extension Options: The client has a unilateral option to extend the agreement twice, one year at a time.
- Total Potential Duration: Up to four years (two years initial, plus two one-year extensions).
- Anticipated Contract End Date:
- Initial: December 31, 2028.
- With all extensions: December 31, 2030.
- Key Milestones (Progress Plan):
- Announcement in Doffin/TED: August 28, 2026.
- Deadline for questions regarding tender documents: October 29, 2026.
- Deadline for submitting offers: October 9, 2026, 12:00.
- Offer opening: October 9, 2026, 13:00.
- Evaluation: Week 42.
- Supplier selection and notification: October 19, 2026.
- Standstill period: 10 days.
- Contract signing: November 2, 2026.
- Offer validity period: Until February 3, 2027.
It is noted that the dates after the tender deadline are preliminary and may be subject to adjustments.
Sources
- 1Konkurransegrunnlag Tolketjenester for Rennebu kommune.docx — “(Trondheim - Oslo) går gjennomkommunen og hovedveiårene er E6, Rv 3 og Fv 700. For mer informasjon se www.rennebu.kommune.no 1.2.2 Anskaffelsens formål og omfang Formålet med anskaffelsen er å inngå rammeavtale for kjøp…”
The core scope of work for this tender is to establish a framework agreement for interpretation services for Rennebu kommune.
The primary purpose is to ensure access to justifiable, qualified, and available interpretation services across various municipal service areas, including health and care, upbringing, social services, integration, and general municipal administration.
Key deliverables and requirements for the supplier include:
- Providing on-site interpretation, screen/video interpretation, and telephone interpretation.
- Managing both ordinary and urgent/acute interpretation requests.
- Prioritizing qualified interpreters who are registered in the National Interpreter Register and offering the highest available qualification category for specific languages and assignments.
- Ensuring interpreters have documented professional qualifications.
- Offering interpretation services in specific mandatory languages: Somali, Arabic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Dari, Burmese, Pashto, Swahili, Lithuanian, and Polish.
- Preferably offering interpretation in additional languages such as Thai, Russian, Balinese, Portuguese, and Latvian.
- Stating the coverage of available interpreters.
- Describing best practice ordering and cancellation routines.
- Providing interpretation services in both half and full-hour increments.
- Ensuring interpreters conduct sessions in a suitable, undisturbed environment to maintain confidentiality.
- Offering remote interpretation services via video conferencing platforms like Teams or Zoom.
- Allowing planned interpretation hours to be agreed upon at least two days in advance.
Sources
- 1Samlet_kravspesifikasjon_tildelingskriterier_evalueringsmodell_tolketjenester.pdf — “KRAVSPESIFIKASJON, TILDELINGSKRITERIER OG EVALUERINGSMODELL Rammeavtale for tolketjenester Oppdragsgiver | Rennebu kommune Anskaffelse | Rammeavtale for tolketjenester Dokument | Samlet kravspesifikasjon, tildelingskrite…”
- 2Konkurransegrunnlag Tolketjenester for Rennebu kommune.docx — “KonkurransegrunnlagAnskaffelse:Rammeavtale – Tolketjenester KonkurransegrunnlagAnskaffelse:Rammeavtale – Tolketjenester Innholdsfortegnelse Del 1: Kvalifikasjonskrav 3 1.1 Informasjon om anskaffelsen 3 1.2 Generell beskr…”
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- Elektronisk Handelsformat Document (EHF) - Norsk-1.pdf399 KBPDF
- Samlet_kravspesifikasjon_tildelingskriterier_evalueringsmodell_tolketjenester.pdf206 KBPDF
- Revidert_prisskjema_tolketjenester_ukjent_behov.xlsx11 KBXLSX
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