Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-31
Buyer: The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes
Country: FI
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2017-06-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The purpose of this Invitation to Tender is to provide Tekes an access to an information search, analysis and visualization web tool which supports strategic planning, funding and implementation work of Tekes.
The acquisition includes an option of equivalent services to Finpro. Tekes and Finpro will be merged into a new operator carrying the working title Business Finland which will begin its operations at the beginning of 2018. More information:
http://team.finland.fi/en/article/-/asset_publisher/10184/tekes-och-finpro-sammanslas-utrikesministeriets-roll-i-exportframjandet-starks
The purpose of this Invitation to Tender is to provide Tekes (and Finpro as an option) an access to an information search, analysis and visualization tool that can be used to provide background information for Tekes funding decisions, strategy work, programme planning and customer relationship management. A major goal is to make the often complex data more understandable and usable.
— Provide direct access and search functionalities to a dataset or datasets containing information about companies of all sizes globally, current and future technology and business trends, news, patents, investments, acquisitions and other innovation and business related information;
— It must be possible to analyse the searched information automatically. The automatic analysis can be based e.g. on natural language processing and automatic text analysis and use e.g. classification, regression or clustering;
— Visualize the analysis results in a way that is easy to understand and communicate to varying audiences, including those not having technical experience. This means graphs, plots, bar-charts, networks and and other commonly used information graphics to visualize large amounts of data;
— Read and automatically analyse large amounts of other structured and unstructured natural language and related numerical data, e.g. customer's own customer or project data. The tool must be able to visualize the analysis results of customer's own data in the same way as the search and analysis results from the datasets contained within the tool;
— Report or document generation out of the search and analysis results so that information from the reports can easily be exported to other documents (e.g. MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Adobe PDF formats);
— A limited amount of the analysis results and their visualizations can be distributed or presented to Tekes's customers.
In addition to Tekes (and Finpro) own employees, Tekes asks the supplier to give limited access to supplier's material for Tekes' customers when sparring the customer in a project. This option is meant only for customers in the category of small and middle-sized companies (SMEs). The access could include parts of search and analysis results and the visualizations, or other information available in the tool. All material would be controlled by Tekes, and direct access would not be granted outside the organization. The Unbiased estimate of the scope of this access is at the maximum 20% of all the material in the service.
The Unbiased estimate of the number of users in Tekes is 15 users at the maximum and also in Finpro 15 users at the maximum. Finpro users are an option. (‘Users’ are users with access to the tool and the ability to make reports, but the distribution of reports should be possible for all Tekes (Finpro) staff.
The acquisition includes an option of the on-premise solution which means that data viewing and processing is also done on Tekes internal network. It means also that the user interface or the publication of the results cannot be on the open internet.
The contract period starts from the signing of the contract and the contract will be valid for the time being. The contract may be terminated at the earliest 1 year after its signing.