Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-09-29
Buyer: University of Turku
Country: FI
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31000000 | 34000000 | 35000000: Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment | 35613000
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Recovery and Resilience

Technical requirements: Suspension of a procurement; Long-range aerial drone with heavy payload and Aerial drone fleet with docking station
The contracting authorities decided to suspend the following procurement. No agreement shall be made. The contracting authorities shall start preparing new procurement procedure as soon as possible with revised requirements.
Long-range aerial drone (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) with take-off weight less than 25 kg. Payload should be over 6 kg. Total weight of the drone should be under 25 kg. The drone should be suitable for vertical take-off and landing. The drone will be designed as a field mapping tool for the laser scanners, optical cameras, water quality/quantity sensors, etc. These kinds of instrumentation should be able to be attached onto the drone, occasionally more than one at a time. Flight time with 6 kg payload should be 50 minutes or more. Minimum flight speed of the drone should be 5 m/s or less. Capability also to fly with up to 12 m/s flight speed or more.
Aerial drone fleet with data loading and recharging docking station (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) with take-off weight less than 25 kg. Total weight not exceeding 25 kg, payload capacity more than 2 kg l (payload must be interchangeable e.g., RGB, spectral cameras, lidar). Therefore, these kinds of instrumentations should be able to attach onto the drone. Flight time with maximum payload should be more than 1 hrs. Minimum flight speed of the drone should be 3 m/s or less. Capability also to fly with up to 8 m/s or more.
Long-range aerial drone (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) with take-off weight less than 25 kg. Payload should be over 6 kg. Total weight of the drone should be under 25 kg. The drone should be suitable for vertical take-off and landing. The drone will be designed as a field mapping tool for the laser scanners, optical cameras, water quality/quantity sensors, etc. These kinds of instrumentation should be able to be attached onto the drone, occasionally more than one at a time. Flight time with 6 kg payload should be 50 minutes or more. Minimum flight speed of the drone should be 5 m/s or less. Capability also to fly with up to 12 m/s flight speed or more.
-  Remote control: radio control up to 15 km range. Option to be able to support longer range 30 km+ have to be offered this can be e.g.  LTE link or a satellite C2 link. Also  real-time video feed from drone to remote control have to be included.
-        Maintenance program, costs of the maintenance and maintenance programme (done by user or company) should be specified. (user maintenance preferred)
- The drone should be equipped with a location positioning system (GNSS: GPS+GLONASS+BeiDou+Galileo). Options for RTK and VRS functions are required.
-       Applications: Remote control software. Cloud Platform support (EU based), can be own cloud or a support of 3rd Party Platforms through API or similar.
- Option to be able to support longer range 30 km+ have to be offered this can be e.g.  LTE link or a satellite C2 link
- Maintenance program, costs of the maintenance and maintenance programme (done by user or company) should be specified. (user maintenance preferred)
The use of options is at the sole discretion of the Buyers. Options are not used in price comparison or in quality evaluations so a tenderer should not include these prices into the total comparison price but inform prices in a separate appendix.
This project is funded from EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), European commission and therefore certain supplier information are required prior into entering a contract.
Aerial drone fleet with data loading and recharging docking station (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) with take-off weight less than 25 kg. Total weight not exceeding 25 kg, payload capacity more than 2 kg l (payload must be interchangeable e.g., RGB, spectral cameras, lidar). Therefore, these kinds of instrumentations should be able to attach onto the drone. Flight time with maximum payload should be more than 1 hrs. Minimum flight speed of the drone should be 3 m/s or less. Capability also to fly with up to 8 m/s or more.
-        Costs of the maintenance and maintenance programme (done by user or company) should be specified. (user maintenance preferred)