Yle News and Current Affairs Studio LED Walls

Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company is Finland's national public service media company. Yle operates four television channels and three channel slots as well as six radio channels and services complemented by over 20 regional radio programmes. Yle also has the most extensive and varied online selection of television and radio programmes in the country. Invitation to Market Dialogues To renew Yle news and current affairs studios, Yle invites interested suppliers for professional LED video screen solutions to participate in the market dialogue held prior publishing the call for tenders (RFQ). Yle is looking for experienced partners that can build video walls and offer solutions that are based on Yle’s studio setup plan. Yle will build two studios at this project, the first studio floor will be 300 m2 and the second floor 85 m2. All the Yle News and Current Affairs productions will be produced in these studios. The company must have experience from projects at the same scale and requests. For a more detailed description of the procurement, please see section II.2.4). Yle will arrange market dialogues with selected interested suppliers. For participating in the market dialogues please see section “VI.3) Additional information”.

Yle’s target is to acquire professional LED video screen solutions for Yle's TV studio needs. The screens will be installed in Yle Media House 2nd floor, at the Pasila News studio area (Helsinki, Finland). The studios are used for Yle News and Current Affairs shows on a daily basis for more than million daily viewers seven days of week. The project will implement the technologies of two NCA studios: the main studio and a medium-sized studio, of which: -The new main studio for NCA studio productions will be built on the second floor of the Media House. The studio floor will cover approximately 300 m2 of space that has a eight metre high ceiling. -A new medium-sized studiofloor for NCA studio productions will be built on the second floor of the Media House. The studio will have a surface area of about 85 m2 and a ceiling height of approximately four metres. At this stage the final studio set up drawings are not yet complete. It is expected that LED screens with pixel pitches from 1.2 mm to 5.9 mm will be installed to the studios depending on the planned usage of the video walls. Also, the shapes of the video walls are still open and waiting for the final studio set design.

Interested suppliers are invited to take part in the market dialogue by sending a request to participate by email to tarjoukset.yle(at)yle.fi at latest by 6th of May 2022. Please include a description covering the following topics in your email: -A short company presentation; -Your experience of similar studio production area projects; -What kind of technologies you would use; -Maintenance and development services on the chosen solution; Based on the received replies Yle will choose the most appropriate suppliers for further technical dialogue, which is held in May 2022. In the technical dialogue Yle will send the preliminary requirements and terms to the suppliers for commenting and reviewing, with the purpose of this being to ensure that the requirements and terms will fit the markets. Yle may also inquire more information about budgetary prices, delivery times for specific pixel pitches etc. As the final specifications for the walls are provided to Yle in June 2022, a lighter second round of a written technical dialogue can be held in June. After the technical dialogues Yle will publish the call for tenders (RFQ), which is estimated to be published in June-July 2022. The schedules are estimates and may change. NOTE: With this EU Prior information notice Yle is not asking for offers. Also, it is not necessary for a supplier to participate in the market dialogue in order to later participate in the procurement procedure. Neither does participation in the market dialogue bind the supplier to participate in the procurement procedure.