Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-04-11
Buyer: Innovaatiorahoituskeskus Tekes
Country: FI
Region: SUOMI / FINLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72212000: Platform-specific software programming services
Estimated value: 200000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2017-05-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: We request offers from the potential supplier for a service or tool to analyse and depict patent information which supports strategic planning and implementation of Tekes programs and generates value added services for Tekes, Tekes's partners, or customer organizations (e.g. companies, universities; below Customer).
The object of the contract is an automated service, which can compare the text of an patent application, idea, research proposal, or other description of technical or business idea to other patent applications and patents published by USPTO, EPO and PCT. The objective of the service is to allow Tekes clients, staff and stake-holders to analyse the technical, legal and business environment of ideas, inventions, research proposal, patent applications and patents. The service must be able to identify the most similar patents and describe the similarity.
— Source of data has to be related to the whole spectrum of patent information (minimum requirement USPTO, EPO, PCT).
— Ability to generate rapidly and agilely patent data and materials including analytical results for Tekes', Partner's and Customer's needs.
— are preferably based on natural language processing technologies and not only use patent metadata (e.g. IPC classes) as the main measure or mean of analysis,
— should be based on large patent databases both the variety of patents and an individual patent content. In other words, ability to read and analyse at least millions of full text patent descriptions,
— Deployment of big data methods for profiling, refining and analysis (unsupervised learning, machine learning, self-organizing maps, statistical probability estimates, statistical clustering, statistical profiling, etc),
— Results can easily be used and shared in Tekes' organization internally and among Tekes' Partners and Customers,
— Analytical results are delivered as an online service and distinctively specified reports and consultancy services.
— continual support of Tekes' processes (How can Tekes concretely enable Customers to move to the global front edge of new emerging technology).
— The TekesMatch is a semantic network based tool that interfaces with technology investment curators, innovators and research.
— Tekes has an intention that the final product should interface with TekesMatch and base on its search engine, and then contract could be considered as eligible for an indeterminate duration.
The legislation of relating to the Finnish Act on procurement (1397/2016) is applied to this procurement. The tender competition shall be conducted according to the Competitive Negotiated Procedure (Competitive dialogue).
The contracting authority has decided to undertake competitive negotiated procedure as the procurement procedure, since it considers that the needs of the contracting authority cannot be met without adaptation of readily available solutions; the specific circumstances related to the nature and the complexity of the subject of the procurement require adoption of the procurement procedure.
Requirements are stated in the tab regarding exclusion grounds and selection criteria (ESPD), which the candidate must fill.

Eligibility requirements: Requirements are stated in the tab regarding exclusion grounds and selection criteria (ESPD), which the candidate must fill. If the request to participate is made as a group of economic operators, or if the candidate relies on subcontractors to fill the requirements stated in the ESPD, then each economic operator in the group or such subcontractor must provide the contracting authority with their own separate ESPD form. Please note! ESPD form is sent through the system to each economic operator in the group and such subcontractors. The candidate must attach a separate ESPD form from each party to its application to participate. It is not possible to submit the request to participate until the ESPD form is attached to the application from all parties.

Award value: 200000