Invitation to participate - Digital forensics tools & Open Source Intelligence tools

Finnish Customs invites tenders to participate tendering process regarding the purchase of digital forensics tools and Open Source Intelligence tools (OSINT). The procurement will be carried out as a joint procurement with two (2) contracting authorities involving; The Finnish Customs and The Finnish Border Guard. With this Invitation to participate Finnish Customs is providing the tenderers the basic material and data to submit a request to participate. The procurement will be carried out as a security procurement in accordance with the Act on Public Procurement in the Fields of Defence and Security (1531/2011). The procurement is divided into three (3) lots (packages) as follows: Package 1 Digital forensics tools for data collecting and analysing Package 2 Open Source Intelligence tools (OSINT) - data analysis software Package 3 Open Source Intelligence tools (OSINT) - cryptoanalysis software Candidate can offer only one package, two packages or all three of the packages. This procurement does not cover a delivery/implementation project. The procurement procedure will be carried out using a restricted procedure (two phases) in accordance with section 3 of the Act on Public Procurement in the Fields of Defence and Security (1531/2011). The final invitation to tender contains confidential information. In order to receive the confidential documents, candidates must submit, as an attachment to their request to participate, a signed procurement-specific information Security Undertaking (Appendix 1), as well as signed personal confidentiality clearances (Appendix 2) from all individuals who will handle confidential information for the purpose of preparing the tender. The Finnish Customs will provide the tender documents containing confidential information only to the candidates selected to proceed in the restricted tendering process by sending the documents containing confidential information as an encrypted letter. With this Invitation to participate, the procurement unit will select tenders to go through to the next phase. Selection will be made based on the eligibility requirements described in this Invitation to participate. In the second phase the tenderers will be selected in accordance with the terms and conditions set in the final invitation to tender and its appendices. The second (final) phase will be held only among the suppliers that are selected to the second phase. In the second and final phase only one (1) tender will be selected for each package/lot of the procurement. The licenses purchased by this procurement procedure must be available and ready for use on january 1st. 2026 by the Finnish Customs and The Finnish Border Guard. The length of the agreement period is 2 years. After two (2) years the contract period will proceed as valid until further notice unless the Procurement unit informs otherwise in accordance with the Contract. The maximum contract period however is no longer than seven (7) years. Customer will also be referred as Client, Contracting authority or Procurement unit / authority. Candidate will also be referred as Supplier/Tenderer. Premilinary time table of the procedure is presented in Appendix 3.