Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-09-18
Buyer: Finnvera Plc
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72212442

Technical requirements: This document is not a prior information notice, a contract notice or an invitation to tender and the purpose of the publication of the document is not to start a tendering process. This request for information is submitted as a part of a market survey. Participating to a potential future tendering process does not require giving information to this request. The purpose of the request for information is to explore information system solutions related to domestic loans and guarantees as well as export credits and guarantees covering full lifecycle of the financing solutions. Finnvera is planning to renew significant parts of current back-end information systems and is looking for ways to enhance and digitalize both customer- and inhouse processes. Partial solutions are also taken into account.
— create a financing solution (assess risks and prevent risk cases, carry out a project survey, define terms and conditions, negotiation with partners, produce decision, offer and agreement),
— liability assessment (identify and manage risks and risk ratings, manage impairments and provisions, maintain securities),
— protection against risks (control risks, identify protection needs and solutions, protect against the tail risk, reinsurance),
Finnvera is a specialized financing company, owned by the State of Finland, and supplements the financial services provided by the private sector. Finnvera and its subsidiary Finnish Export Credit Ltd have official Export Credit Agency (ECA) status. Finnvera provides loans and domestic guarantees for SMEs, and export credit guarantees and credit insurance for export financing. Finnish Export Credit Ltd provides interest equalization and financing of export credits. Finnvera has 380 employees and has commitments totaling over 20 000 000 000 EUR. Finnvera carries out roughly 30 000 transactions per year. As part of a strategy of digitalization, Finnvera is currently renovating customer front-end information systems including party information management, and is looking for cost-effective ways to proceed with back office systems. The aim is to find commercially available solutions that can be utilized as a part of the overall architecture to provide some of the key capabilities. Controlling of operational risks and credit risks is a particularly important part of Finnvera’s business, and will be a key part of the desired system. Any questions concerning this request for information should be sent by email to: hankinnat@finnvera.fi. Mark the message as “QUESTION: Information system solutions for financial sector”. The questions must be submitted by 28.9.2018. Finnvera will respond to the questions on a best effort basis by 5.10.2018. Finnvera can provide e.g. capability maps and other detailed information by request. Companies interested in the matter are requested to send descriptions of available solutions, a short description of the company, a price indication and information whether the solution is available for demonstration or trial purposes. The solution description should contain information on the general design, theoretical framework and user interface of the solution, as well as information about any possible existing APIs that may be used to integrate the solution with other IT systems, for instance party handling, document archiving and DW-solutions. Please send your answer to hankinnat@finnvera.fi by 12.10.2018 4:00 pm. Information of solution capabilities compared to the desired capabilities listed in 2.4 will be appreciated, as well as a comparision to the BIAN architectural map, if available. References of successful digitalization cases will be appreciated. The questions and answers may be submitted in Finnish or English.