The competition concerns the delivery of welfare and independent living technology as ongoing services, where the selected supplier will have full responsibility for the integration, monitoring, support, and operation of the total solution, including all components. The deliveries comprise services for home-dwelling residents, institutions, and assisted living facilities, for both employees and service recipients. There is also a need to be able to purchase components for the solution where appropriate, for example, when implementing the solution for use in institutions. The solution is required to include an integration platform. The contracting authority also requires the potential delivery of response center services for handling alerts, if appropriate. Emergency response linked to the follow-up of users is not part of this request. Participants in the procurement: Nome and Midt-Telemark municipality The value of the procurement is estimated to be above the EEA threshold value. The volume is an estimate and is not binding for the contracting authority. For further information, please refer to the procurement documents. The contracting authority reserves the right to cancel the competition, including in connection with budgetary approval. The obligation to require apprentices has been assessed to apply to this procurement, cf. the Public Procurement Act § 5h. See the contract for more information.