Air Navigation resource management system (RMS)

The procurement unit conducted a competitive tendering process in accordance with the Finnish Procurement Act for the air navigation personnel resource management system as a service. The subject of the procurement was a ready-made system that meets the objectives set by the procurement unit and meets the requirements set. The procurement was carried out through an open procedure. The procurement unit selected one of the most economically advantageous suppliers based on the criteria stated in the procurement notice. The procurement has not been divided into parts because the procurement unit has assessed that the need can be met with a ready-made solution purchased as a service, for which the system supplier also offers an implementation project and necessary support services.Main features of the procedureThe procurement complies with Finnish Act on public contracts and concessions of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors 1398/2016 ("Procurement Act in special sectors") and Act on the Openness of Government Activities 621/1999 ("Openness Act"). https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/saadoskaannokset/2016/eng/1397 The procurement procedure is an open procedure in accordance with Section 36 of the Procurement Act in special sectors. In an open procedure the procurement unit publishes a contract notice and places a call for tenders for the receivable, on which basis all prospective suppliers may submit their tenders. Tenders must be submitted as final and the procedure does not include negotiations. The specifications describing a procurement and any associated technical specifications contained therein are set out in the contract notice, in the call for tenders or in the annexes thereto, and determine the characteristics required. After the deadline for submitting tenders has expired, the procurement unit will check that: 1) the tender complies with the mandatory requirements, conditions and criteria set out in the procurement documents; and 2) the tender has been submitted by a tenderer who meets the suitability requirements set out by the procurement unit. A tenderer shall demonstrate in its tender that its tendered goods and services comply with the requirements set out in the call for tenders and other procurement documents. The procurement shall exclude from competitive tendering any tenders that fail to correspond to the call for tenders or to the terms and conditions of the tendering procedure or if the tenderer does not meet the suitability requirements. If the information or documents in a tender are incomplete or incorrect in immaterial respects, or if some documents or information are missing that are not used to assess compliance with the call for tenders or the fulfillment of the tender suitability requirements or to compare tender, the contracting entity may request the tenderer to submit, add, clarify or supplement the information or documents within the time limit imposed by procurement entity.