Norway Case Study

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. The new portal went live in December 2005.

The new portal publishes notices for contracts with a value greater than the EU regulatory mandatory threshold. However it also publishes 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 new 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 saves administration time, but also allows 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 translates all of the Official Journal notices into English before sending them to Luxembourg for publication.


Portal Statistics

  • 2,900 purchasers representing over 1,500 Public Authorities
  • 10,500 active suppliers
  • Average of 250 OJEU notices published per month
  • Average of 600 below threshold notices published per month
  • 99% of Norway's Official Journal notices are published through Doffin.

"The switch to Millstream has already brought significant savings. The cost of publishing public sector notices has been slashed from €4 million to €930,000, and nearly half of this reduction is directly attributable to Millstream. It is clearly cost-efficient, and justifies our use of third party professional providers for these kinds of operations, instead of developing them internally."
Andre Hoddevik - Project Manager, Norway


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