Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2022-03-23
Buyer: Savonia- ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
Country: FI
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 42300000
Estimated value: 70000 EUR

Technical requirements: Request for Information without call for competition  Furnace/reactor suitable for testing how the materials used in thermochemical energy storage (TCES) react.
This is not a prior information notice or a call for tenders, but a request for information and an invitation to a market dialogue.
Before the procurement is formulated and announced Savonia University of Applied Sciences wants information on what kind of laboratory equipment (reactors, furnaces, etc.) is available or can be applied to test reactions suitable for thermochemical energy storage.
The purpose of this request for information is to clarify the issues and price estimates related to the possible acquisition. The aim of the request for information is to obtain comprehensive information on the procurement in order to enable any tendering procedure to be carried out as appropriately as possible. The contracting entity shall not undertake to carry out the acquisition of the TCES furnace and shall not bind the undertakings involved in it in the submission of a tender in the event of a tendering procedure, nor, on the other hand, failure to reply to a request for information or to participate in a market dialogue shall prevent the submission of a tender in the event of a possible invitation to tender.
No compensation shall be paid for responding to a request for information or for participating in a market dialogue. Decisions on the launch of a possible procurement process will be made after the market dialogue.
Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Savonia UAS) is one of the largest and most versatile universities of applied sciences in Finland. Our organization of experts educates strong professionals in six different fields of study. Our versatile degree programmes offer the students the opportunity to study as a full-time student or alongside their job (Master’s Degree and specialised studies) or flexibly in the Open University of Applied Sciences. Our campuses are located in Kuopio, Iisalmi and Varkaus.
Savonia actively serves the working life in the region – especially in its selected focus areas. Our research, development and innovation work (RDI) offers expertise and tailor-made problem-solving to enterprises and organizations.
The equipment to be acquired will be utilised in research, development and teaching use at Savonia's Energy Research Centre (http://energiatutkimus.savonia.fi) in cooperation with companies and partners in the region in developing (TCES) energy storage solutions for future energy systems.
Savonia University of Applied Sciences aims later to acquire an oven/reactor suitable for testing how the materials used in thermochemical energy storage (TCES) react.
Savonia University of Applied Sciences wants information on what kind of laboratory equipment (reactors, furnaces, etc.) is available or can be applied to testing reactions suitable for thermochemical energy storage in the laboratory. The budget is about 35,000 - 70,000 € (below the EU thresholds)  In particular, there is a desire to study the release of stored energy, i.e. the exothermic phase.
An example of batch testing (no substance is added to or removed from the reactor, but all the substance has been added at the beginning of the experiment and the process is allowed to proceed until the reaction slows down and ceases)
o Measuring the temperature at which the reaction between the substances begins (ignition temperature), the heat released when reacting (adiabatic combustion temperature) and examining the reaction products.
1. Do you offer some or all of the equipment needed for the project? Do you offer other equipment for the TCES process?
5. Describe your company's experience with the products in question. Please indicate the number of references/ references you have for the delivery of equipment corresponding to the destination of the purchase.
6. Do you have at your service (at your disposal) experts who could be appointed to this project, please name them? What kind of references do they have?


Award value: 70000