Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-06-06
Buyer: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 700000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-07-07
Award criteria: 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: The candidate must be able to carry out the contract according to the invitation to participate. On VTT’s request, the candidate commits to provide a statement of financial and other operational competence, taking into account the subject of the invitation to participate and other basic competences. The candidate must be able to demonstrate ability to carry out the contract according to the invitation to participate.
The candidate must provide information about the company’s creditworthiness. The candidate’s Rating Alfa must be at least on A+ level of Suomen Asiakastieto Oy or the A rating level of Dun & Bradstreet Finland Oy at the time of the suitability check.

If the candidate does not have a rating from Suomen Asiakastieto Oy or Dun & Bradstreet Finland Oy, the candidate must present a report from another equivalent credit information provider indicating low credit risk.
Annual turnover is minimum 2 000 000 € / recently confirmed financial year.
The candidate 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.
other
The candidate undertakes to comply with the business principles set by VTT in the Annex 5 “VTT's Supplier Code of Conduct” in order to be a supplier of services to VTT.

In its operations and supply chains, the candidate takes into account the requirements and issues related to the Corporate Social Responsibility.
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 candidate declares that: 
(a) the sanctions referred to above have not been imposed 
- to the candidate, 
- members of the candidate's administrative, management or 
supervisory body or persons exercising powers of 
representation, decision-making or supervision, 
- the direct or indirect owners of the candidate, 
- 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 candidate 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 candidate'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 candidate 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 participate or products or 
services produced by the candidate and its subcontractors 
does not violate the above sanctions. Upon request, the 
candidate 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 candidate 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.