About the procurement Stimulab project Child-friendly processes - Children as legal subjects in the Child Protection and Health Committee's main challenge is how the child protection and health committees can ensure children access to legal security and that the child's best interests are the centre of the committee treatment. The project assumes that children have the right to access to legal security, and that the child's rights - including children's participation - and the need must be at the centre of the committee's treatment in order to achieve this. Information/tips for suppliers Stimulants is earmarked for the procurement of competence in the market. For those who are, or would like to become a supplier for Stimulab projects, read more about tips, information and previously asked questions here: https://www.digdir.no/stimulab/leverandorer-til-stimulab/1885For further information on this Stimulabance procurement, see the attached documents in Mercell.

The nature of the procurement is consultancy services, including "design competence" and "other relevant additional competence" where the main competence lies within service design, which is typically carried out as desk work. The work can include some, but typically limited travel activities. The main service is the consultant ́s work effort. In order to map the climate footprint and other forms of environmental impact from the nature of consultancy services, the Directorate assumes that a consultant ́s climate footprint and environmental impact will be equal to the load from an average permanent employee. In the view of the Directorate, it is the employee ́s need for office space and equipment, the energy consumption in the building where jobs are in, travel for work, and waste generation that contributes to the employee ́s climate footprint and environmental impact. However, the Directorate estimates that none of the above elements fall within the nature of the procurement, which is a consultancy service. The elements that are related to the species, i.e. assistance with design competence that is provided, lead to an immaterial climate footprint and environmental impact. Based on its assessment, the Directorate will use the exception in the Procurement Act § 5b third section, because the procurement is justified in its nature to have an immaterial climate footprint and environmental impact. The Directorate is therefore exempted from the obligation to weight climate and environmental considerations with a minimum of 30 percent or to prioritise climate and environmental considerations among the three highest prioritised award criteria.