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Local-use digital newspaper service
Paikalliskäyttöinen digitaalinen sanomalehtipalvelu — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 2 November at 12:00 — 1 day left.
- You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: Finnish.
- Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
What the buyer is looking for
The object of the procurement is a local digital service for newspapers, which includes a collection of newspapers and a user interface for the use, browsing, searching and reading of newspapers and related support services that are common to all subscriber units according to the requirements specification. The user identification of the service is done with IP addresses. For a more detailed description of the subject of the contract, see Annex 1 "Description of the subject of the contract" to the invitation to tender. This acquisition is part of the FinELib consortium's data acquisition. Subscriber entities are public libraries that are members of the consortium. All subscriber units are listed in Annex 7. One (1) service provider will be selected on the basis of competitive tendering and will be responsible for the digital service of local newspapers as a whole. The contract period is…
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… two (2) years. The procuring entity has the right to extend the contract for a maximum option period of two (2) years under the terms of the contract. See also the "Permanent contract" chapter of the contract attached as Annex A to the invitation to tender. The estimated value of the acquisition is EUR 2,250,000-3,380,000 (VAT 0%), including the option period. The maximum value of the contract is EUR 3 380 000 (VAT 0%). The figures are based on estimates of the use of the framework agreement provided by the subscriber units. The maximum value of the framework agreement has been calculated for 4 years. The determination of the estimated total value of the procurement is made more difficult by the possible fluctuations in the annual licence volumes of the subscriber units and the annual budgets of the subscriber units.
Contract
Type of service
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Finnish.
Tender documents — direct download
Contracting authority contact
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 2,996 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 34 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,452 procedures). A normal window for this market.
The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.
Foreign bidders
In Finland · IT services, 51 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 4,856 recorded awards) — mostly from France, United States, Germany.
Submission language: Finnish.
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