Global cost and quality comparison tool (FDI Benchmark tool)

Invest in Finland, that is a part of Business Finland Oy, is the national agency promoting Finland as a business location for international companies. In Invest in Finland's daily work there is a need to convince customer companies about the advantages of Finland as a business location. For that purpose, Invest in Finland needs objective comparison data of costs and quality factors in Finland and different competing locations. With this data, Invest in Finland is able to give reliable facts for its customers’ decision making and customize our value propositions. The object of the procurement is a tool that assesses the relative competitiveness of different locations on country and city level and across over different industry sectors. Global cost and quality comparison tool for assessing and ranking business environments between different locations (country & city level) gives instant access to hundreds of relevant quality and cost data points across 900-plus global locations in more than 65 sectors.

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. Business Finland has selected the supplier due to reason that a corresponding service is not available elsewhere and there are no alternative solutions available on the market that would enable the Contracting Entity to receive the required information content in the required format in one place.