Public procurement notice: Design Contest
Published: 2020-02-26
Buyer: City of Helsinki
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 09300000 | 65400000 | 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314200: Energy management services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Submission deadline: 2020-05-31
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: Helsinki Energy Challenge is a one million euro global challenge competition that seeks to answer the question:
Helsinki Energy Challenge invites innovators, solution developers and technology providers from around the globe to propose game-changing solutions to create the future of heating — impactful solutions that can transform Helsinki’s heating and help decarbonise heating systems of cities around the world.
Helsinki Energy Challenge will begin with an open application phase. After the application phase, the evaluation of the applications and the selection of the teams that continue further in the challenge competition will be done by an evaluation team of the City of Helsinki with the assistance of several independent industry experts. The evaluation criteria is presented in the competition program. A minimum of 3 and a maximum of 15 teams will be selected to continue in the process and participate in the co-creation phase of the challenge competition.
All proposed solutions will be evaluated according to the same criteria, which are climate impact, impact on natural resources, cost impact, implementation schedule, implementation feasibility, reliability and security of supply and capacity. Criteria for the evaluation of projects is presented in the competition program in more detail.
The prize for the winning solution is 1 000 000 EUR. The recipient of the prize money is responsible for the tax consequences.The jury may decide to divide the prize money between more than one winner or decide to not to award the main prize. In addition to the main prize, both the jury and the organizer have a right to share recognition awards or other additional prizes.
This Challenge competition applies the City of Helsinki's Guidelines for combating grey economy. Before making the final decisions and paying the prize money, the winners (if the winner is an organization) and possible subcontractors will be asked separately for the following reports to verify compliance with the guidelines:
— report on entries in the withholding tax register, the employer register and the register of taxable persons liable for VAT,
— certificate stating that employee pension insurance has been taken out and that pension insurance contributions are paid up, or a report stating that a payment agreement concerning outstanding pension insurance contributions has been signed.
In case of a foreign organization, the organization shall provide the information corresponding to above by presenting an extract from a register or an equivalent certificate complying with the legislation where the organization is domiciled, or in some other generally accepted way.

Eligibility requirements: Helsinki Energy Challenge will begin with an open application phase. After the application phase, the evaluation of the applications and the selection of the teams that continue further in the challenge competition will be done by an evaluation team of the City of Helsinki with the assistance of several independent industry experts. The evaluation criteria is presented in the competition program. A minimum of 3 and a maximum of 15 teams will be selected to continue in the process and participate in the co-creation phase of the challenge competition.