Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-05-02
Buyer: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 22450000 | 48000000 | 48430000 | 72000000 | 72222300: Information technology services
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: 1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE

The procurement will be implemented as an open procedure as per the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016). 

No compensation will be paid to suppliers for submitting a tender or for any other type of participation in the process or related actions.

2. SUBMITTING THE TENDER AS A GROUP OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS AND SUBCONTRACTING

The tenderer may submit the tender as a group of economic operators. In this case, however, it is required that the enterprises that belong to the group undertake with joint liability to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of the contract. If the group is awarded with the contract, all group members shall sign the contract. The members of the group may not be changed during the procurement procedure or contract period.

The group and the tenderer with subcontractors is required to have the technical, economic and financial and other capacities to provide the goods and services in accordance with the contract for the whole contract period. The group may be requested to provide corresponding references on how the relationships between the members of the group have been arranged.

If the tenderer uses subcontractors, it shall be responsible for the work of its subcontractors as for their own work. If the tenderer participates in the procurement process independently, using the services of its subcontractors as a part of its tender and being responsible for their work, the tenderer must state in the ESPD form and annex Subcontractors form how the subcontractor participates in producing the service.

Replacement of subcontractors during the procurement process may be possible only on a limited basis. Changing subcontractors requires the approval of the contracting authority and this may not weaken the factors on which the tenderer's suitability has been assessed.

During the contract period replacing subcontractors is possible only, if it does not result in significant or material changes in the contract, and only with the consent of the contracting authority.

3. OTHER ECONOMIC OPERATORS

Tenderer or a group of economic operators may use the resources of other entities to fulfill the requirements of the procurement without taking into account the legal nature of their relationship. The resources of other entities must be de facto at the disposal of the tenderer or the group of economic operators during the procurement process. Such resources may include, for example:

1) The use of references concerning the supply of services included in the procurement by the tenderer's group companies or other economic entities, provided that this entity is named in the tender as a subcontractor for the tenderer or the group of economic operators, and de facto participates in supplying the service;
2) the use of other company's personnel to fulfill the requirements concerning professional qualifications, provided that the persons de facto participate in supplying the service;
3) resources concerning economic and financial standing;
4) resources concerning technical capabilities, provided that such resources are de facto utilized to fulfill the requirements of the procurement.
In order to address the issue of illicit trade in tobacco products, all EU Member States have to ensure that unit packets of tobacco products are marked with a unique identifier so that their movements are recorded.

As per Article 15 of the  directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC (hereinafter the Tobacco Products Directive), member states must ensure that all retail packages of tobacco products are marked with a unique identifier.

The concession contract is awarded to a single tenderer who will act as a Finland's (including Åland) ID issuer for the tobacco traceability system. The awarded tenderer will serve as the ID issuer for products placed on the Finnish market (including Åland). As the traceability system became operational on the 20th of May 2019, the present ID Issuer has issued Identifier Codes for the major part of the Economic Operators and operators of First Retail Outlets now present on the Finnish Market. The selected tenderer will have to cooperate with the present ID Issuer (All Soft Corps s.r.o.) to ensure a smooth transition.

The Ministry of Health and Social affairs acts as a procurement unit on behalf of Åland.
For the price criterion, points will be awarded according to the price given for the generating and issuing each unique identifier (comparison price).
Quality criterion 1: The length of the unique identifier code, maximum points 20
Quality criterion 2: The tenderer's service description for implementing the service, maximum points 20


Winner: All Soft Corp s.r.o.
Number of bids: 1