Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2022-03-18
Buyer: Yleisradio Oy
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The purpose of this RFI is to collect information from the market and inform companies of the upcoming procurement. With this RFI you are invited to take part in the market dialogue.
With this RFI Yle is not asking for tenders. In addition, it is not necessary to reply to this RFI in order to later participate in the upcoming procurement procedure and invitation to tender.
The description and object of the RFI are preliminary and Yle will specify the needs and objectives of the procurement in the final invitation to tender.
The purpose of the procurement is to acquire a transcoding and Origin services solution that has modern capabilities and flexibility to manage the process.
The Yleisradio video and audio program online service is called Yle Areena. Yle Areena was released in 2007 and it is one of Yle’s largest and most important online services. Yle Areena is also Finland’s most well-known and awarded media brand online. Yle Areena supports Yle’s strategy to provide media material for large audiences in Finland but also to provide accessible media for different focus groups like  non-finnish speakers and people who require accessibility services. Areena has over 3 million users weekly and Areena service is completely free for its users.
Yle Areena contains multiple different kinds of media varying from full length movies, sports events, series and episodes to news and current affairs. The media also has a variety of different aspects related to them. There can be multiple audio and subtitle languages related to the media but also accessibility tracks and captions. Over 86 million streams are started every month with over 50 thousand different videos and audio files available for every device.
Yle’s current online video platform solution has been in Yle’s use since 2015. The current solution is software as a service (Saas ) containing both transcoding and origin services for Yle Areena. Yle has developed its own API stack to support the current solution. The picture below illustrates on a high level how the current system serves Yle Areena. The CDN service Yle uses is Akamai.
The current state and current solution does not fully support Yle Areena’s future roadmap. Thus Yle wants to renew and modernize the current solution so that future video and audio trends such as for example 4k video, 5.1 audio would be supported and new codecs would be supported.
Yle is planning to procure an online video platform for Yle areena as a software as a service (SaaS). The procurement has been planned so that the service is  divided into two different segments:
The provider can either offer a solution for one of the segments or a complete solution that includes both transcoding and origin services.
In the target state of the online video platform, Yle would have a modern solution or solutions where transcoding and origin services both support and enable modern technologies for audio and video. The solution should support a variety of different end user devices also.
1) Ask for more information from tarjoukset.yle@yle.fi & we'll send you more detailed description of the procurement and a short questionnaire concerning your solution. (Please use the reference "YLE20220012 Online Video Platform" as a headline of your e-mail.)
2) Fill in the questionnaire and send it along with a short company presentation (& other complementary appendices/information if you wish) by email to tarjoukset.yle(at)yle.fi by 30th of March 2022 at the latest.
3) Yle will arrange market dialogues with selected interested suppliers. More information about the market dialogues please see section “VI.3) Additional information” of this EU Prior information notice.