Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2024-02-16
Buyer: Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 38112100 | 72000000
Submission deadline: 2024-03-19
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: To be defined in the actual call to participate / call for tenders.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE RFI 
 
The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom works to ensure the availability of well-functioning, safe, secure and reasonably priced transport and communications connections and services in Finland. 
 
Traficom is the competent PRS authority in Finland (FI CPA) as provided by the Act on Electronic Communications Services. The National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-FI is responsible for the PRS duties at Traficom. Detailed information about the duties as well as the detailed background about this RFI is presented in annex 1.
 
The purpose of this RFI is to find market offerings concerning the Galileo PRS service provision. The aim of the RFI is to comprehensively obtain relevant information so that the potential procurements can be carried out in an appropriate manner. Decisions on the possible launch of the procurement processes will be made after market mapping. Please note that this RFI is not a call for tenders and all the information in the RFI as well as its annexes is only preliminary. Hence, the preliminary information presented in this documentation can change in the possible upcoming procurements.
 
Traficom is not obliged to publish a call for tenders. The decision about starting the actual procurement process shall be made after Traficom has completed the RFI process. Answering to the RFI does not bind to submitting a tender in the actual procurement process nor is it a prerequisite for subsequent participation in the invitation to tender.
 
Traficom does not compensate the possible costs of answering to the RFI. 

ANSWERING TO THE RFI 
 
Following documents are attached to the RFI: 
 
1. RFI Background Information and RFI questions 
 
Please read carefully the above-mentioned document and answer the questions presented at the section "Questions" of the document. 
 
Please send your answers to the following e-mail address: 
 
hankinnat.ktk@traficom.fi 
 
We also ask you to give the necessary contact information (contact person and e-mail) regarding your answer. You can also ask for more information about the RFI from the above-mentioned e-mail address. 
 
Give your answers by the deadline presented further in this document (19th March 2024 noon Finnish time). Traficom has the right to present further questions to those who answer the RFI. Traficom has also the right to arrange separate RFI-meetings. These questions and/or meetings may take place already during the RFI period.

CONFIDENTIALITY 
 
If your RFI answers include any trade secrets, please indicate them carefully and clearly. Trade secrets shall be kept secret in accordance with the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999).

If your answers include classified information and you wish to use secure email, instructions on using our secure email can be found at:

https://www.traficom.fi/en/traficom/contact-details/sending-secure-email-traficom

The addressee in this case is the same as above (hankinnat.ktk@traficom.fi).

Please note, that our secure email is approved for the national security level IV ("RESTRICTED, KÄYTTÖ RAJOITETTU") information but not for EU RESTRICTED information.