Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-02-19
Buyer: Liikennevirasto
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72212200: Networking software programming services | 72212211 | 72253200: Computer systems support services

Technical requirements: Finnish railway traffic control centers, or the service provider's data centers in Finland, a service provider's development facility in Finland.
Please note: this is not a formal request for applications to tender nor does it form part of any tender process.
This is a Market Consultation process only concerning the possible purchase of the railway information system integration service.
The Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) is inviting market operators to engage in a technical and service dialogue with regard to the railway system integration service.
This request for information initiates the technical and service dialogue. The technical and service dialogue consists of the questions in the request for information and possibly further discussions and the presentation of the market operator's products and services to FTA.
Replying to the request for information or participating in the technical and service dialogue is not binding on the market operator, and no compensation is paid for participation. The technical and service dialogue or the request for information related to it do not constitute a contract notice or an invitation to tender, and they do not obligate FTA to initiate the procurement. Responding to the request for information or failing to respond to it or participate in the technical and service dialogue or not participate in it do not affect the market operator's possibilities to participate or not participate in the actual procurement if 1 is carried out.
For taking part to dialogue, please inform FTA representative, Ms. Tehanu Tapola, by email (tehanu.tapola@liikennevirasto.fi) no later than 25.3.2016 and provide your comments/answers for requested information with the contact details which you prefer to be used in this matter.
The Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) enables smooth, efficient and safe travel and transport. FTA is responsible for Finnish roads, railways and waterways and for the overall development of Finland's transport system. FTA promotes an effective transport system, traffic safety and a sustainable development of the regions.
FTA is an expert organization specializing in transport and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport and Communications and employs approx. 650 professionals. FTA's tasks vary from expertise in the transport field to operative traffic control and administration.
The responsibilities of the Development of Railway Traffic Services (DRTS) unit within FTA include railway traffic control related IT systems. DRTS is planning to renew the system integration service within next 2 years. As part of the planning for renewal DRTS is opening a dialogue with suppliers by this RFI.
Scope of the request is railway information system integration service and related services for FTA. Services will be responsible for all systems integrations between different railway related systems and external systems and covers integration related services on top of this system. Current environment contains about 25 systems and 50 interfaces of which about 7 systems have message load of over 1 000 000 messages per month. Altogether, there are approximately 15 000 000 inbound messages and 40 000 000 outbound messages per month. The volumes will continue to rise approximately up to 10 times in the next 10 years. Future state includes increased number of systems and increased need for message orchestration. The service consists of production and test environments for external systems integration.
We are open to suggestions on how to implement the required integration service. There can be several possible business models but in any case the service provider should take full responsibility of the working of the integration, regardless of existence of any subcontractors. Please note that the system servers should be located in Finland and the service should be produced in Finland.
Current adapters to other systems are FTP and HTTP adapters and mainly XML messages in store-and-forward model. The adapters and message formats must be able to follow technical development in future years. The period of the contract will be at least 10 years. Naturally the servers running the service can be updated during that period but it should cause only a very minimal service break, preferably none.
1.1. Please provide relevant references about system integration services which have been implemented within last 5 years. Implementation must be based on the solution you are offering and provided by your company. Each reference must include a contact person from supplier side and may include also contact from purchaser side.
2.1. Please provide generic description how integrations and high availability are automatically handled in your solution.