Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-05-14
Buyer: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Country: FI
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Innovation partnership
CPV classification: 30210000 | 30211100 | 72000000 | 73000000
Submission deadline: 2020-06-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, herein referred to as ‘VTT’ or ‘Contracting authority’ expects your application to participate in the innovation partnership as detailed in the contract notice published on the public procurement website Hilma and this invitation to participate and its Annexes 1-8.
Subject-matter of the contract is the development and the delivery of a quantum computer and related supplies and services.
The purpose of the contract is to create an innovation partnership for the research and development and the delivery of a quantum computer.
The estimated budget for the development and the delivery of the first phase quantum computer is about EUR 4-5 million (VAT not included), taking into account the selected innovation partner’s costs. The overall estimate for all three phases is about EUR 20-25 million. The companies and other interested entities are asked to take this estimated budget into account when considering the application to participate. Higher budgets may be considered, but please note that if preliminary tenders considerably exceed this estimated budget, the Contracting Authority may need to terminate the procurement process without even proceeding with the negotiations.
The contract period starts from the signing of the contract and stays in force until further notice. Please see Annex 2 Draft contractual terms and conditions for further information.
The contract will be awarded through innovation partnership procedure, stipulated by paragraphs 38-39 of Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016). The innovation partnership is one of the public procurement processes, stipulated by Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016).
No compensation will be paid to companies for preparing an application to participate, a preliminary tender, a final tender or for presenting or taking part in the negotiations, except for the preparing of the project plan during the negotiations (see ‘Additional information on the procurement procedure’, ‘Further information about the negotiations’).
‘Candidate’ means a company or other entity (also a consortium) who sends an application to participate to this public procurement processes.
‘Tenderer’ means a company or other entity (also a consortium) who the Contracting Authority has selected to the negotiations based on the Tenderer’s application to participate. In other words, a ‘Candidate’ becomes a ‘Tenderer’ after the selection of Tenderers to the negotiations, if the said Candidate is selected.
‘Innovation partner’ means a company or other entity (also a consortium) who the Contracting Authority selects as the Contracting Authority’s innovation partner after the negotiations, based on the Tenderer’s final tender.
For further information about the procedure and the schedule, please see section VI): ‘Supplementary information’ and section ‘Other information’.
The Contracting Authority will select three to five Candidates to the negotiations. The Contracting Authority does not have the resources to negotiate with more Candidates.
The innovation partnership contract award procedure has the following steps (estimated schedule presented in parenthesis):
• the contracting authority publishes the contract notice, the invitation to participate, the preliminary invitation to negotiate and the preliminary invitation to tender,
• the Candidates submit to the Contracting Authority the questions concerning the invitation to participate (25 May 2020),