Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-05-02
Buyer: Finnish National Agency for Education
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72212931 | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 73000000 | 73200000 | 75112100
Estimated value: 363576 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-06-05
Award criteria: price, quality
EU fund: eu-funds

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: 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.
The comparison of offers is described in "Grounds for decision" of the Invitation to tender.
The technical area (TA) aims to review and update the current Inclusive and Special Education Implementation Guidelines for teachers, and disseminate and train on the revised guidelines.

The scope and subject-matter of the procurement is described in more detail particularly in Annex 1.1 "ToR TA1 International Experts".
The service includes time spent working remotely on the design and formalization of certain deliverables and requires in-country mission days up to 44 days.
The tenderer's financial standing is primarily evaluated based on credit reports in the service provider Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), which shall indicate a risk rating score of 1 to 3. If the tenderer's information is not stated in the service provided by D&B, the economic and financial standing of the tenderer will be evaluated based on financial statements and/or other similar information. These accounts will be separately requested from the tenderer if they are required. These accounts include for example income statement, balance sheet, annual report and other financial statements, if their publication is required by the laws of the tenderer's country of establishment. 

The tenderer whose Risk Indicator of D&B is 4 or the tenderer whose economical standing and financial solvency is estimated to correspond to the D&B's Risk Indicator 4 will be excluded from the procurement procedure. If the tender is submitted as a group, all the members of the group shall meet this requirement individually.
The technical area (TA) aims to update the training modules on Inclusive and Special Education and a teacher manual to support children with hearing impairment, create a new module on integrating technology to pedagogy on Inclusive Education, and pilot the updated and new modules in selected Teacher Training Colleges and Universities, designing a nationwide roll-out plan, including in-service training.

The scope and subject-matter of the procurement is described in more detail particularly in Annex 1.2 "ToR TA2 International and National Experts".
The service includes time spent working remotely on the design and formalization of certain deliverables and requires in-country mission days up to 82 days in total.