Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-12-21
Buyer: Geologian tutkimuskeskus (Geological Survey of Finland)
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
This document is not a procurement announcement, not an Invitation to Tender, nor will its publication start a Tender Procurement Process. This document serves as a Prior Information Notice and an invitation to Tender Information Meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to obtain information about potential service suppliers.
The target of this Prior Information Notice is to find potential candidates to develop and maintain GTK’s LIMS services and to provide information about the current solution and long-term development plans. This Prior Information Notice does not bind the GTK to make any procurement based on this request. Participation in this Tender Information Meeting does not in any way bind any party in a potential future Invitation to Tender. Suppliers who refrain from participating in this Tender Information Meeting are equally allowed to participate in potential future Invitation to Tender.
GTK requests a solution from Tenderer which would handle the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) operations in the Circular Economy Solutions unit of GTK. GTK Mintec in Outokumpu is currently automating considerable parts of its analysis work with a robotic automation cell (MintecRobo). Outokumpu site runs also a mineralogy laboratory and a process laboratory for bench-scale mineral beneficiation tests. Espoo research laboratories provide analysis and experts services in geology. The lab’s main areas of focus are isotope geology and applied mineralogy. Many dedicated analysis instruments are used in this research work. Mining environment and water research in Kuopio produces also data on the long-term behaviour of waste materials.
We also request high flexibility to further development of the system. Our strategy is to incrementally widen the scope of the LIMS inside GTK and direct selected analysis data flows to our geoinformation system.
• System integration: communication and data exchange between different external laboratory instruments.
• System integration to the process automation system. Selected analysis results shall be available in the process automation system for display and history storing together with the actual process variables.
We are committed to the ASTM E1578 – 18 Standard Guide for Laboratory Informatics and use it in conceptualizing system functionalities.
The system should be implemented incrementally. The MintecRobo part has the tightest schedule. Communication interface functions of the MintecRobo shall be available in May 2023 for its Factory Acceptance Test use and LIMS for GTK Mintec shall be fully operational by September 2023. LIMS for Espoo research laboratory and mining environment research in Kuopio should be scheduled so that the above-mentioned timing can be guaranteed.
Interested suppliers are kindly requested to register to kilpailutus@hansel no later than 30 December 2021 by 12.00 EET if they are participating in Tender Information Meeting. Please send the full name of your company and its contact person by e-mail.
Any questions related to the Prior Information Notice should be sent to kilpailutus@hansel. Please write into the subject field of the email "GTK, Tender Information Meeting LIMS"
The Tender Information Meeting with the suppliers will be held on 12 January 2022 at 12.00 EET in Helsinki Finland. This meeting is open to all interested suppliers. The GTK reserves the right to invite or not to invite suppliers for further Tender Information Meetings. The GTK will not pay any expenses related to this Prior Information Notice or Tender Information Meetings. The Tender Information Meeting will be held at Microsoft Teams.
Interested suppliers are requested to answer the questions below and submit their answers by no later than 10 January 2021 by 12:00 EET.
1. Support Services. What is the extent of support services you recommend for the solution, including technical support, training, and consulting operations?
2. Architecture. In the case of incremental deployment and future extensions, what architecture principles and general guidelines you would recommend to form the basis for making future decisions?