Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-06-11
Buyer: Puolustusvoimien logistiikkalaitos
Country: FI
Region: FI197
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 34711100: Fixed-wing aircraft
Estimated value: 49000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-07-09
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The economic operator is in any analogous situation like bankruptcy arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations.
The economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein has been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for corruption, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable.
The economic operator is in arrangement with creditors.
The economic operator itself or any person who is a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body or has powers of representation, decision or control therein has been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for participation in a criminal organisation, by a conviction rendered at the most five years ago or in which an exclusion period set out directly in the conviction continues to be applicable.
The economic operator has entered into agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition.

Eligibility requirements: as mentioned in ESPD form.
The total price of supplies.
The total quality points basing on quality criterias
The Defence Forces Logistics Command (later referred to as Contracting Entity) requests a participation application regarding the procurement of JETX business jet aircraft in accordance with this participation application request and its appendices. 

The procurement consists of 2-3 light to mid-sized business jet type aircraft depending on the funding provided. The aim of the Contracting Entity is to purchase 3 business jet type aircraft.  The total value of procurement including options is 49 million EUR.

The planned nature of the flight missions is transport of personnel and cargo. The planned flight missions departing from Helsinki are the following:

A. Central Europe
B. Nordic countries
C. Long range flights within Europe (max range: EFHK (Helsinki) -LPPT (Lisbon))
D. Domestic flights
E. Domestic short flights
F. Training and check flights

Aircraft will be based in airports between Helsinki and Rovaniemi. The home base of the aircraft will be either EFTP (Tampere 
Finland) or EFHK (Helsinki Finland). The aircraft will be operated mainly at civil and military airports in Finland and Europe.
The preliminary Request for Quotation and requirement matrix of aircraft comprising critical, primary and secondary 
requirements will be provided for the candidates approved after the participation application phase. In negotiation phase, critical minimum requirements are non-negotiable. 

Evaluations of aircraft:

Evaluations are conducted based on the appendix 4 ''Evaluations''. Suitability for the primary role of personnel transportation and for the secondary role of light cargo carrying capability will be evaluated. Requirement for cargo transportation will be defined or omitted based on evaluation and negotiations. The aim of the evaluations is to confirm fulfillment of requirements (critical, primary, secondary) set on the preliminary Request for Quotation. The Aircraft that the Tenderer provides for evaluation shall correspond to the one that will be proposed in the final quotation. If the Tenderer wishes to deliver parallel tenders, 
the completion of the evaluation process is compulsory for all proposed aircraft. A Quotation that includes a proposition of the aircraft that is not evaluated shall not be accepted in the final RFQ phase.

The evaluation will provide a verified assessment of suitability of each offered aircraft for its planned use in the Finnish operational environment and the life cycle cost. The general principle of the evaluation program is to focus on practical issues important to the Finnish Air Force (FINAF), and consider them on the same basis and using same methods as in normal FINAF use. 

Evaluation will include initial assessment based on information requested (requirement appendix, section 5,  5.5.7). Information should be provided by 10.8.2025 the latest. Second phase of evaluation is limited scope flight evaluation. The Candidates should propose scheduling including availability of demo aircraft for evaluation when providing requested information. 

Participation:
The Candidates are kindly asked to familiarize themselves with this participation application request and its appendices. The candidates are only asked to send participation application and appendices asked in this phase A of the procurement. The Candidates that are selected to proceed to Phase B (Request for Quotation phase) shall receive a preliminary RFQ from the Contracting Entity and the Contracting Entity then asks for preliminary tenders.