Consultancy for pre-award support: training, application & interview preparation for externally funded research grants

If you wish to receive support in any of the 9 categories, you must purchase it from one of the named companies. Services may only be purchased from other sources if all of the above companies have declared themselves unable to meet your request for support.

Buying services which fall outside of the 9 categories (A1-B5) is not covered by this framework agreement, and should comply with regular routines for purchases of services.

You can choose freely from the companies inside each category, though as assignments should be allocated evenly between the suppliers in each category, it could be useful to consider which supplier is best suited for each assignment, rather than using the same supplier as a matter of course.

If you are buying services on behalf of a department or faculty, please choose one of the companies specified to provide services for that category of support. You can order services by completing the call-off order form, adding a short description of the assigment (what it should include) and the maximum budget. Once you have completed the call-off order form, you can contact your chosen company and, if they have availability to support you, send them the form to complete and agree support. Once this is done, please contact your purchaser ("innkjøper") so that a purchase order can be registered, approved and sent to the company.

If using PES money, you should therefore take VAT into account. For non-Norwegian suppliers, please inform the purchaser that this is a service from abroad so that the VAT-code is set to 3T in Unit4ERP. Teaching services are VAT exempted. Please notify the purchaser when a course is ordered, as this is VAT exempted as training/teaching. The purchaser can set the VAT code to 0 and the supplier will then invoice without VAT. For orders that include both training and consultancy, only the training is VAT exempted. More information on VAT at UiB, is to be found here (same lenke som over – finnes bare på norsk).

Note: For pre-award consultancy, each supplier has provided hourly rates. Prices for courses and training are given per course.

If the quality of any services ordered and provided under the framework agreement fail to meet expected standard or is felt to be of poor quality, please take this up with your supplier in the first instance. If this does not resolve the issue, please contact the administrator of the framework agreement. This can be done via the Contract Catalogue (contract register of UiB) – reference ANSK-0012-21. Please choose “register deviation”, fill in with information on the specific problem, and return.