FinnHEMS - Increase in Medical Helicopter Capacity

The Contracting Entity’s operations are expanding and one more HEMS base is scheduled to open October 2022 and needs one (1) more helicopter with a medical kit installed to guarantee uninterrupted service at seven bases. Based on the reasons stated in the procurement material the suitable helicopter type is EC135 or equivalent. The Contracting Entity selects one (1) supplier and concludes an agreement with that supplier. The contract period starts from signing the contract and is valid until the helicopter have been delivered and contractual obligations have been fulfilled by the parties.

The Call for tenders was sent to be published via Hilma-portal 22.2.2022. After the deadline 31.3.2022 12:00 the Contracting Entity received two tenders. The tenderers fulfilled the set suitability criteria. During the review of the tenders and verifying that the helicopter tendered fulfilled the requirements of the Call for tenders, it appeared that all the tenders contained faults that cannot be accepted as such. One tender clearly did not meet the minimum requirements set for the helicopter. The tenderer was excluded from the bidding procedure by the Contracting Entity’s decision. The decision was notified to the tenderer 31.3.2022. Other tendered helicopter met the minimum requirements, but the pricing given appeared to be inadequate. The tenderer was given the opportunity to specify the pricing of its tender. Based on the answers the price did not include one essential component. This left the Contracting Entity to a situation where the received tenders did not comply with the Call for Tenders and its requirements.