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The public sector buys goods and services worth over NOK 800 billion annually. You know your company has what it takes to win a share of this pot. But the road there can feel unnecessarily complicated and costly.
Does that sound familiar? You're not alone.
Recently our general manager, Jonas Klafstad, was interviewed by The Financial Newspaper about a major problem when it comes to public tenders: Many companies pay tens of thousands of kroner for access to essential documents they need to compete for these tenders. According to the law, these should be free, direct and unlimitedly available. Is it really that when companies find that they have to pay to access these?
This is not only unfair. It limits healthy competition.
That suppliers should have to experience that they have to pay a private operator to access these documents, which according to the law should be free, is strange. It's the same as having to pay to get your voting ballot.
Public tenders are already a complicated process for suppliers. As Jonas Klafstad says, this practice can have major consequences for the state's offer to you and me:
The law states that access to should be free and unlimited. But it helps little if the documents in practice are behind design gripes, registration requirements and up-selling. Providers find they have to buy additional services, and then competition weakens. There will be fewer offers, less innovation and poorer use of resources.
Here you can read the whole thing. What do you think?
