Purchase of a regional city bike system

… agreement with the selected supplier on behalf of the municipality of Pirkkala. During the duration of the framework agreement, the City of Tampere and the Municipality of Pirkkala may decide and conclude their own procurement agreements with the selected supplier for the deployment of the city bike service in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this call for tenders. If the City of Tampere does not make a procurement decision on the introduction of the city bike service, the municipality of Pirkkala will also not be able to use the framework agreement in question. The aim of the contracting entities involved in the procurement (Tampere and Pirkkala) is that the city bike service will start simultaneously in the spring of 2028. However, municipalities can introduce the city bike service at different times, so that the service is first introduced in Tampere. The aim of the city bike service is to normalise cycling traffic and sustainable mobility and to enable a sustainable, affordable, easy and fun way to get around. City bike service is part of the public transport offer: it makes it easier to make travel chains by providing a good connection to the public transport backbone lines, but at the same time it acts as an independent service to make the journey from start to finish. It is particularly important that the service is one and the same for the user, even if the service is available in two municipalities. This means that the user can use city bikes in all municipalities where city bikes are used with a single purchase of access rights, and that the technology and intervention logic of city bikes are the same everywhere. Users can make cross-municipal journeys. Of the municipalities involved in the procurement, only Tampere currently has a city bike service in use. Tampere City Bike Service was introduced in 2021 and currently includes 700 mechanical bikes. The bikes have smart locks, and the use of the service is based on the city bike app provided by the Supplier, which allows users to register as users of the service, purchase the right of use they want, and can start and end trips. The stations of the current city bike service are so-called virtual stations, i.e. they are based on geo-restriction. Some stations have fixed infrastructure, e.g. a bike rack and/or an information board. The current city bike service will be discontinued at the end of 2027 and the contract period will end on 28 February 2028. Tenderers may consult the scope and actual volumes of the city bike service currently in use in the City of Tampere in the Annex "Annex 14 Data from current bikeshare" to the invitation to tender.