1. Buyer
1.1.
Buyer
Official name: Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency
2. Procedure
2.1.
Procedure
Title: Contract award notice - Cancellation of Pre-qualification
Description: The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency received a question on Thursday 23 April regarding Pre-Qualification requirement 4 (QR4) related to this Pre-Qualification. The question was: The wording in QR4 implies that manufacturers of STUAS for purposes similar to those described in the system description will automatically be rejected if they do not have experience producing VTOL UAS. Is this understood correctly? There are UAS systems that are highly relevant for use with CRDCO although they are not necessarily VTOL. Following a review, the NDMA has concluded that this requirement could unintentionally create an unnecessary restriction on potential suppliers at this stage of the procurement process. In light of this we are cancelling this Pre-Qualification We will review and amend our requirements and ensure that all potential suppliers that meet our amended requirements can take part in this procurement process. We will re-publish the competition as soon as we have amended the qualification requirements. Answers to other questions received for this pre-qualification will be uploaded in the additional information tab in the re-published the competition/Pre-qualification. It will be re-published in the coming days.
Procedure identifier: f5ee45ca-3d1f-4ac2-98a5-feb1251a84e2
Previous notice: 256122-2026
Previous notice: 222408-2026
Internal identifier: 525e048e-305a-4277-8fb9-c3189f31047d
Type of procedure: Negotiated with prior publication of a call for competition / competitive with negotiation
The procedure is accelerated: no
2.1.1.
Purpose
Main nature of the contract: Supplies
Main classification (cpv): 35613000 Unmanned aerial vehicles
Additional classification (cpv): 34700000 Aircraft and spacecraft, 34711200 Non-piloted aircraft, 34711300 Piloted aircraft, 35610000 Military aircrafts
2.1.2.
Place of performance
Country subdivision (NUTS): Troms/Romsa/Tromssa (NO072)
Country: Norway
2.1.4.
General information
This procedure will be relaunched
Legal basis:
Directive 2009/81/EC
Forsvar og sikkerhet - With reference to Invitation to Pre-qualification section 3.10, the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) is cancelling the pre-qualification for the Framework Agreement - Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systemt. It is the NDMA's assessment that there are "reasonable grounds" for such actions, cf. FOSA section 13-1
5. Lot
5.1.
Lot: LOT-0000
Title: Contract award notice - Cancellation of Pre-qualification
Description: The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency received a question on Thursday 23 April regarding Pre-Qualification requirement 4 (QR4) related to this Pre-Qualification. The question was: The wording in QR4 implies that manufacturers of STUAS for purposes similar to those described in the system description will automatically be rejected if they do not have experience producing VTOL UAS. Is this understood correctly? There are UAS systems that are highly relevant for use with CRDCO although they are not necessarily VTOL. Following a review, the NDMA has concluded that this requirement could unintentionally create an unnecessary restriction on potential suppliers at this stage of the procurement process. In light of this we are cancelling this Pre-Qualification We will review and amend our requirements and ensure that all potential suppliers that meet our amended requirements can take part in this procurement process. We will re-publish the competition as soon as we have amended the qualification requirements. Answers to other questions received for this pre-qualification will be uploaded in the additional information tab in the re-published the competition/Pre-qualification. It will be re-published in the coming days.
Internal identifier: 7389bfd7-289d-496b-bade-439bccadd58b
5.1.1.
Purpose
Main nature of the contract: Supplies
Main classification (cpv): 35613000 Unmanned aerial vehicles
Additional classification (cpv): 34700000 Aircraft and spacecraft, 34711200 Non-piloted aircraft, 34711300 Piloted aircraft, 35610000 Military aircrafts
5.1.2.
Place of performance
Country subdivision (NUTS): Troms/Romsa/Tromssa (NO072)
Country: Norway
5.1.6.
General information
This cancelled or unsuccessful procedure or lot will be relaunched
5.1.10.
Award criteria
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Name: Requirements Concerning the Candidate�s Organisational and Legal Position
Description: The candidate shall be a legally established company, registered in a professional, trade or business register in its state of origin or establishment.
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Name: Requirements Concerning the Candidate�s Economic and Financial Standing
Description: The candidate shall have the necessary economic and financial standing to perform the contract. The contracting authority will inter alia assess the equity, operating margin and liquidity ratio.The candidate shall have a minimum overall turnover of minimum 250MNOK for each of the last three years. The Candidate shall ensure that it properly fulfils its obligations regarding the payment of tax and VAT.
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Name: Requirements Concerning the Candidate�s Technical and Professional Ability
Description: The tenderer shall have experience with the production of Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) STUAS with Maximum TakeOff Weight (MTOW) of up to 150kg, The candidate shall have relevant experience from similar contracts. Similar contracts include: a) Contracts valued at 150MNOK or above. b) Contracts supplying VTOL STUAS systems to NATO countries c) Public/Government contracts The candidate shall have the necessary technical and professional ability and capacity] to perform the contract.
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Name: Requirements Concerning Management Systems
Description: The candidate shall have established, implemented, and maintained a quality management system that complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015, or recognized equivalent international standard. The candidate shall have established, implemented, and maintained an information security management system. The candidate shall have a management system which ensures that due diligence is performed in the supply chain for the performance of the contract with the aim of enabling the candidate to identify, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts of the performance of the contract related to workers, human rights, the environment, bribery, consumers and corporate governance. The candidate shall have established, implemented, and maintained an environmental management system.
Criterion:
Type: Quality
Name: Security of Supply
Description: The legal ownership of the candidate must not represent a security risk for Norway.
Description of the method to be used if weighting cannot be expressed by criteria: The criteria are assessed as fulfilled/not fulfilled. No relative weighting is applied in this prequalification process.
5.1.15.
Techniques
Framework agreement:
Framework agreement, without reopening of competition
5.1.16.
Further information, mediation and review
Information about review deadlines: Deadlines for the Appeals Board for Public Procurements: Complain: Within six months from when the contract has been signed. Allegation of illegal direct procurement: Within 2 years from when the contract is signed Comments on the response: Within 5 working days from the date in the response
6. Results
6.1.
Result lot identifier: LOT-0000
Winner selection status: No winner was chosen and the competition is closed.
The reason why a winner was not chosen: Decision of the buyer, not following a tenderer's request to review the award, because of technical or procedural errors
6.1.4.
Statistical information
Summary of the review requests the buyer received:
Number of complainants: 0
Received tenders or requests to participate:
Type of received submissions: Requests to participate
Number of tenders or requests to participate received: 0
8. Organisations
8.1.
ORG-0001
Official name: Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency
Registration number: 916075855
Postal address: Grev Wedels plass 1
Town: OSLO
Postcode: 0151
Country subdivision (NUTS): Oslo (NO081)
Country: Norway
Contact point: Iris Jensdottir Bolstad
Telephone: 93022105
Roles of this organisation:
Buyer
Notice identifier/version: d408e235-8aaa-48ad-a27d-c3497716b152 - 01
Form type: Result
Notice type: Contract or concession award notice – standard regime
Notice subtype: 31
Notice dispatch date: 11/05/2026 04:32:03 (UTC+00:00) Western European Time, GMT
Notice dispatch date (eSender): 11/05/2026 06:28:40 (UTC+00:00) Western European Time, GMT
Languages in which this notice is officially available: English
Notice publication number: 325208-2026
OJ S issue number: 91/2026
Publication date: 12/05/2026