Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-06-20
Buyer: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Submission deadline: 2025-07-21
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: Tenderer must be able to carry out the contract according to the invitation to tender. On VTT’s request, the tenderer commits to provide a statement of financial and other operational competence, taking into account the subject of the invitation to tender and other basic competences. The tenderer must be able to demonstrate ability to carry out the contract according to the invitation to tender.
described in more detail in the ESPD form
The tenderer must have valid liability insurance latest in the beginning of the contract period. The liability insurance must be relevant to the risks associated with the contract. The requirement is described in more detail in the ESPD form.
The tenderer commits to provide VTT the information specified in the Act on the Contractor’s Obligations and Liability when Work is Contracted Out (1233/2006) 5§, in case the tenderer wins the competitive bidding process: 
1) Information on whether the enterprise is entered in the Prepayment Register and Employment Register, and registered as VAT liable in the Value Added Tax Register;
2) Extract from the trade register or equivalent information otherwise obtained from the trade register; 
3) Report on the contracting partner’s tax payment status; 
4) Certificates of pension insurance taken out and of pension insurance premiums paid, or an account that a payment agreement on outstanding pension insurance premiums has been made; 
5) Account of the collective agreement or principal terms of employment applicable to the work; 
6) Account of the organization of occupational health care services; and 
7) Certificates of statutory employment accident insurance taken out (in association with construction contracts)
other
1) Finland, The EU, the UN, the USA (OFAC) or the United 
Kingdom (HMT) have imposed and may in the future impose 
sanctions in their legislation and / or by decisions of their 
institutions. The tenderer declares that: 
(a) the sanctions referred to above have not been imposed 
- to the tenderer, 
- members of the tenderer's administrative, management or 
supervisory body or persons exercising powers of 
representation, decision-making or supervision, 
- the direct or indirect owners of the tenderer, 
- subcontractors involved in the supply of products or 
services under contract awarded, 
- the members of the administrative, management or 
supervisory body of the subcontractors concerned 
or control, representation, decision-making or supervisory 
power over those subcontractors, nor 
- the direct or indirect owners of the subcontractors 
concerned or other beneficiary, 
b) as referred to in Article 5 k of Regulation (EU) 833/2014, 
the tenderer is not 
i. a Russian citizen or a natural person or legal entity, entity 
or body established in Russia, 
ii. legal entity, entity or body, of which the entity referred to in 
point b) i. above directly or indirectly owns more than 50 
percent, nor 
iii. a natural person, legal entity, entity or body acting on 
behalf of or under the direction of the entity referred to in 
point b) i. or b) ii 
c) The tenderer's subcontractor, supplier or resource unit, 
whose share is more than 10 percent of the value of the 
procurement contract, is not in points b) i.-iii. intended entity 
d) The tenderer shall immediately notify VTT if sanctions are 
imposed to any of the parties referred to in point (a); and 
e) Activities under this invitation to tender or products or 
services produced by the tenderer and its subcontractors 
does not violate the above sanctions. Upon request, the 
tenderer shall immediately provide VTT with information on 
its direct or indirect owners, subcontractors or other 
beneficiaries. In addition, the tenderer undertakes to notify 
VTT without delay if a performance related to the 
procurement may, directly or indirectly, end up to a 
sanctioned party. 
2) If 
(a) Finland, the EU, the UN, the US (OFAC) or the United 
Kingdom (HMT) impose sanctions on the tenderer, or the 
entities referred to in point 1 (a) above; or 
(b) the performance/-s of the contract, directly or indirectly, 
may end up to a sanctioned party; VTT may terminate the 
awarded contract immediately as a result of this tendering 
process, either in full or in respect of the products or services 
to which the sanctions relate. 
3) If these warranties have been breached, the tenderer is 
obliged to compensate VTT for all damages caused to it, 
without the limitations of liability. 
More about the sanctions: EU Best Practices for the effective 
implementation of the restrictive measures https://data.
consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8519-2018-INIT/en
/pdf.
It is enrolled in the relevant trade registers kept in the Member State of its establishment:
It is enrolled in relevant professional registers kept in the Member State of its establishment as described in Annex XI of Directive 2014/24/EU; economic operators from certain Member States may have to comply with other requirements set out in that Annex.