Statens kartverk
Overall rating 2024
55 out of 100
Overall score for how well the agency is run, against 81 agencies of the type directorates, inspectorates and agencies with enough figures. It is in the second-lowest quartile.
Rank 44–64 of 81 when the weights change (equal weight on all parts, efficiency and administration half each, and administration alone). The narrower the band, the safer the placement.
The parts that count, with their weight in the overall score
- Financial control (budget deviation): 43 out of 100, weight 20 %
- Stability of the budget deviation, 3 years: 81 out of 100, weight 10 %
- Audit: 75 out of 100, weight 15 %
- Competition in procurement: 79 out of 100, weight 15 %
- Employer (lost FTE): 35 out of 100, weight 10 %
- Turnover (separations): 100 out of 100, weight 5 %
- Operating cost per full-time equivalent: 39 out of 100, weight 10 %
- Growth in cost per full-time equivalent, 3 years: 25 out of 100, weight 8 %
- Consultancy share of operating cost: 8 out of 100, weight 7 %
The parts with figures cover 100 % of the weight. What is missing is left out and the weights recalculated.
A single number hides differences, so see the two axes below. The weights are a proposal: 75 % administration (financial control, stability, audit, competition, absence and turnover) and 25 % efficiency, because cost per FTE says least about how well an agency is run. The score measures administration and use of resources, not the quality of the services.
Governance index 2024
The agency is in the bottom quartile among directorates, inspectorates and agencies (121 agencies). Its development over three years is in the second-lowest quartile.
- Financial control: 43 of 100
- Audit: 75 of 100
- Employer: 35 of 100
- Procurement: 79 of 100
Quartiles within the group, not a ranking. Parts without figures are left out and the weights spread over the rest.
Efficiency and quality 2024
In the group «directorates, inspectorates and agencies» (121 agencies) the agency falls in the box «Well governed, high use of resources».
The agency stands among the others in its group. Choose who to compare with: the most similar in size, the nearest in the quadrant or all. You can also add a specific agency.
Each bubble is an agency. The position is 0–100 against the others in the same group: further right is lower resource use, higher up is better administration. Bubble size is expenditure. The pale bubble and the arrow show where the agency stood the year before. Use the choices above the chart to see fewer at a time.
Efficiency (use of resources)
- Operating cost per full-time equivalent: 39 of 100 · 1,876,309 kr
- Growth in cost per full-time equivalent, 3 years: 25 of 100 · +21.8%
- Consultancy share of operating cost: 8 of 100 · 14.6%
Quality of governance
- Financial control (budget deviation): 43 of 100 · −5.2%
- Stability of the budget deviation, 3 years: 81 of 100 · ±0.9%
- Audit: 75 of 100 · not named among the accounts with material errors
- Competition in procurement: 79 of 100 · 100%
The placement is a quartile in the group, not a score or a rank. A low use of resources can reflect different tasks or underfunding, and quality here means quality of governance, not quality of service. Parts without figures are left out.
Not measured: quality of service and user satisfaction, cost per output, and staff turnover.
State accounts
| Year | Spending | Operations | Against budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 through 09/2026 | 1,214 MNOK | 1,187 MNOK | – |
| 2025 | 1,696 MNOK | 1,661 MNOK | −1.0% |
| 2024 | 1,468 MNOK | 1,441 MNOK | −5.2% |
| 2023 | 1,405 MNOK | 1,391 MNOK | −3.1% |
| 2022 | 1,310 MNOK | 1,287 MNOK | −3.9% |
| 2021 | 1,275 MNOK | 1,254 MNOK | −2.4% |
The deviation from budget covers the agency's own operating chapters (posts 01–29), where it posts at least 95 % of the amount. The budget is the adopted budget, changes during the year and what was carried over from the year before. Source: DFØ, state accounts.
As an employer, 2025
- Employees: 802
- Agreed full-time equivalents: 767
- Full-time equivalents lost to certified sick leave and parental leave: 5.2% (state average: 5.6%)
- Departures as a share of employees: 7.4% (59 departures, 92 new hires)
- Women: 50% · Leaders: 10.5% · Average age: 47.7
Agreed full-time equivalents by year: 2022: 773 · 2023: 767 · 2024: 769 · 2025: 767
Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), tables 12627, 12876, 12877 and 12827 (CC BY 4.0), unit «Statens kartverk». The share lost compares full-time equivalents excluding parental leave and certified sick leave with agreed full-time equivalents: it mixes the two and is not sick leave alone. It counts in the employer part of the governance index, where lower is better.
Salary costs, 2025
Two of the key figures DFØ asks agencies to report, computed the same way for all from the state accounts and SSB full-time equivalents. Against the median for agencies of the same type (123 agencies). Operating expenditure per full-time equivalent and the consultancy share are under efficiency.
- Salary per full-time equivalent: 934,885 kr (median 1,029,599 kr)
- Salary share of operating expenditure: 43.2% (median 61.6%)
Source: DFØ (state accounts, NLOD) and Statistics Norway (SSB), table 12627 (CC BY 4.0). Salary is account class 5 in the state accounts (payroll costs, which may also include employer’s contributions and pensions). A high salary per full-time equivalent can be the task, not waste: the figures are context and do not count in the index.
Documents from Kudos
- Latest annual report
Årsrapport Kartverket 2025 (KDD) - Letter of allocation · plus 4 supplements
Tildelingsbrev Kartverket 2026 (KDD)
Source: DFØ (Kudos), the documents are held by Kudos. Annual reports and evaluations are tied to the agency that owns them, letters of allocation to the agency that receives them.
The annual audit
| Year | The auditor's conclusion |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Not among the 10 of 230 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2023 | Not among the 7 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2022 | The Office of the Auditor General found that the accounts may contain material errors and omissions. That applied to 5 of 236 audited accounts. |
| 2021 | Not among the 4 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
Source: the Storting's recommendation on the annual audit (Document 1). «Not among» means the agency is not named there, not that we have read the audit report.
Procurement in Doffin
| Year | Notices | Awards | Single tender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 9 | 5 | 20% |
| 2024 | 13 | 12 | 0% |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 11% |
The single-tender share is computed from awards where the number of tenders is given. Source: Doffin (DFØ).
Supplier concentration since 2024
The agency as a buyer, on its own organisation number.
- Contracts awarded
- 17
- 22.3 MNOK
- Distinct suppliers
- 12
- Share of value to the largest supplier
- 41%
- from 10 of 17 contracts
- Share of value to the five largest
- 100%
- Contracts with a single tender
- 17%
- of 6 with a stated tender count · average 2.8 tenders
Framework agreements are left out (7 since 2024, with ceilings of 47.0 MNOK in all). A ceiling is not a purchase.
Largest suppliers
| Supplier | Contracts | Value | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Geospatial AS | 6 | 9.1 MNOK | 41% |
| Fugro Norway AS | 1 | 7.0 MNOK | 31% |
| Hexagon Geosystems Services Norway AS | 1 | 2.7 MNOK | 12% |
| Datakvalitet AS | 1 | 2.5 MNOK | 11% |
| Grade Jobbnorge AS | 1 | 1.0 MNOK | 4% |
Key contracts
The largest contracts by stated value, marked framework agreements excluded.
| Date | Contract | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2025 | USV Mareano 2025 | Fugro Norway AS | 7.0 MNOK |
| 21 March 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Sunnmøre nord 2024 - LACHMR41 | Hexagon Geosystems Services Norway AS | 2.7 MNOK |
| 19 April 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Indre Agder - LACHAG42 | Field Geospatial AS | 2.6 MNOK |
| 25 February 2025 | Kontraktstildeling internkontroll og kvalitetssystem | Datakvalitet AS | 2.5 MNOK |
| 21 March 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Sunnmøre nord laser 2024 - LACHMR42 | Field Geospatial AS | 1.8 MNOK |
| 20 March 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Nissedal Kviteseid - LACHVT42 | Field Geospatial AS | 1.6 MNOK |
| 23 April 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Kristiansand-Vennesla-Lindesnes - LACHAG41 | Field Geospatial AS | 1.5 MNOK |
| 21 March 2024 | Geovekstinnkjøp: Nordmøre FKB-C 2023 - LACHMR33 | Field Geospatial AS | 1.1 MNOK |
- The value is what the buyer stated in Doffin, often an estimate for the whole contract.
- The shares are computed from contracts with one supplier and a stated value, so no value is counted twice.
- Framework agreements are left out of the sums, since the value is a ceiling. Many frameworks are not marked in Doffin and may still be included.
- Suppliers without a Norwegian organisation number, sole proprietorships and possible private persons are counted but not named.
Contains data under the Norwegian licence for public data (NLOD 2.0) made available by Doffin/the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ). NLOD 2.0
What we do not measure
We do not assess policy, goal attainment, the quality of services or individual cases. We look only at what can be measured in open data and what the agency itself controls: financial control, audit and procurement. Sick leave per agency is not openly available and is therefore left out.
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The agency in the Central Coordinating Register · How we calculate
Sources: Brønnøysund Register Centre (NLOD), the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ), state accounts (NLOD), the Storting (NLOD) and Doffin.
Indications based on open data. Not an assessment of the agency's public mission.