Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2023-01-20
Buyer: Business Finland Oy
Country: FI
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72260000: Software-related services | 73000000
Estimated value: 220000 EUR
EU fund: Recovery and Resilience

Technical requirements: The object of the procurement is Visa Destination Insights reporting service tool (hereinafter also ‘the Destination Insights Tool’) that compiles aggregated and depersonalized Visa cardholder transaction data for selected market segments of international travelers, to help generate insights on inbound tourist trends.
The value of the Destination Insights Tool for the contract term of two (2) years (2023-2024) is maximum 180 000 Euros (VAT 0 %). Business Finland reserves an option to procure additional expert services related to data analysis and reports from the Service Provider with maximum value of 40 000 (VAT 0 %) Euros.
The object of the procurement is Visa Destination Insights reporting service tool (hereinafter also ‘the Destination Insights Tool’) that compiles aggregated and depersonalized Visa cardholder transaction data for selected market segments of international travelers, to help generate insights on inbound tourist trends.
The value of the Destination Insights Tool for the contract term of two (2) years (2023-2024) is maximum 180 000 Euros (VAT 0 %) . Business Finland reserves an option to procure additional expert services related to data analysis and reports from the Service Provider with maximum value of 40 000 (VAT 0 %) Euros.
Business Finland reserves an option to procure additional expert services related to data analysis and reports from the Service Provider with maximum value of 40 000 (VAT 0 %) Euros.
The procurement is funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility under the regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility and subject to the Commission’s principle of Do No Significant Harm (DNSH).
In accordance with the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts Section 40.2.2, a contracting entity may opt for direct procurement if only a certain supplier can implement the procurement for a technical reason, or for a reason related to protecting an exclusive right; it shall be a further condition that there are no reasonable alternatives or substitute solutions, and that the absence of competition is not due to an artificial narrowing of the terms and conditions of the procurement.
The object of the procurement is Visa Destination Insights reporting service that compiles aggregated and depersonalized Visa cardholder transaction data for selected market segments of international travelers, to help generate insights on inbound tourist trends.
Business Finland has selected Visa Europe Limited as the supplier because it is in a unique position enabling it to produce accurate large-scale numeric data on the inbound tourist trends and benchmarks for Visa cards in the required format, dimensions and metrics. By utilizing Visa’s VisaNet data, Visa Europe Limited can produce accurate cross-border tourism data in frequent intervals to Visit Finland. The service enables Business Finland to access aggregated and depersonalized travel transaction data from Visa cardholders such as visitor origin, year-on-year growth metrics, market segment spend aggregate amount within designated reporting areas and other ad hoc query analysis.


Winner: Visa Europe Limited
Award value: 220000