About this market dialogue
Background and purpose
This market dialogue is part of the project Felles løft: Sammenhengende tjenester for barn og unge (Joint effort: Coherent services for children and young people), led by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency (Digdir) in cooperation with KS, the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, HK-dir, Sikt, Novari, Statistics Norway (SSB) and the County Governors’ Joint Services (Statsforvalternes fellestjenester).
The purpose is to gather knowledge and input from the market – suppliers, professional and research communities and start-ups – about needs, opportunities and solutions within coherent services for children and young people. The dialogue has been announced as a prior information notice (RFI) on Doffin (ref. 2026-109852) and entails no obligation to purchase or procure.
We conduct the dialogue openly and in writing on this website, as one of several steps in the process. This gives all stakeholders equal access to information and input, and makes it possible to document equal treatment in a verifiable way.
Why open and written?
Traditional market dialogue often takes place through meetings, RFIs or bilateral conversations. This works, but has some weaknesses:
- Information is spread unevenly – some suppliers learn more than others
- It is difficult to document that the principle of equal treatment has been complied with
- Input gets lost in email threads and does not become available to others
- Small actors with good ideas are left out because they are not on the distribution list
By conducting the dialogue in open, version-controlled documents on this website, we solve several of these problems at once. Everyone sees the same thing, everything is traceable, and the threshold for contributing is low.
What happens to the input?
The input you share here is publicly available and will be used by the contracting authority to understand the market and shape the further work – for example requirement specifications and tender documents. That is precisely the point: the broader and better the input, the better the basis for decisions we get.
You do not need any special agreement for your contributions to count. Since the content is open and traceable, you should avoid posting trade secrets here. If you have something you would like to share confidentially, we are happy to receive it in another way; see Contact us for the email address.
Equal treatment
All input is visible to everyone. We (the contracting authority) compile the input and draw up a comprehensive requirement specification based on the breadth of contributions – not a single supplier’s draft. Contributing here gives no advantage in a later competition.
Phases
The dialogue is conducted in several steps:
- Formal announcement – the RFI is published on Doffin and the dialogue is opened
- Supplier conference – open digital meeting where we present the background and problem statement, and answer questions
- Written input period – the market contributes input, changes and proposals on this website
- Possible 1:1 meetings – to go into depth on specific topics where needed
- Summary – we compile what has been received and what it means for further work
- Closing – the dialogue is formally concluded; the further process follows ordinary procurement channels
The current status and any deadlines are stated on the relevant dialogue page. SAMT-BU may conduct several parallel or sequential dialogues over time, linked to different phases or sub-areas of the project.
Impartiality
Participating in a market dialogue does not disqualify you from competing for any later procurement. This is established by the Norwegian Public Procurement Regulations § 24-3: exclusion is only relevant as a last resort if there are no other ways to ensure equal treatment.
The open, written format here is designed precisely to meet this requirement: all input is visible to everyone, and no actor holds information that is not available to the others. This openness is in itself the “appropriate measure” the law requires – and makes exclusion in practice very unlikely.
If you have questions about your specific situation, you are welcome to get in touch; see Contact us for the email address.