The Finnish Border Guard (later also Contracting Authority) requested for tenders regarding small unmanned aircraft systems (hereinafter referred to as the UAS) in accordance with the published Request to Participate and Call for Tenders alongisde their appendices. The Contracting Authority has found the set technical requirements of the procurement to be unnecessarily strict, and will thus cancel the procurement.

The Act on Public Procurement in the Fields of Defence and Security (1531/2011) shall be applied to the procurement. The value of the contract exceeds the EU threshold value of the applicable law. A restricted procedure will be applied. Restricted procedure means that all interested candidates may request to participate; only those candidates selected by the Contracting Authority will receive the actual Call for Tenders in the next phase and may submit a tender. The Contracting Authority selects one (1) supplier with whom it will sign a procurement contract. The phases of the procurement process are as follows: 1. Request for Participation 2. Candidate questions and Contracting Authority answers 3. Submitting of Candidates' participation application 4. Processing participation applications: verifying the suitability of Candidates 5. Selection of tenderers out of the Candidates that have submitted a participation application and notifying participants of the decision. 6. Publishing the Call for Tenders 7. Tenderer questions and Contracting Authority answers 8. Submitting tenders 9. Opening of tenders: verifying the conformity of the tenders with the Call for Tenders 10. Potential field tests to verify the UAS's conformity with the technical requirements set in the Call for Tenders , if necessary. 11. Procurement decision and notification of the decision 12. Signing of security agreement and procurement contract Field testing phase takes place at a place in Finland to be later defined. All costs related to preparing and submitting the participation application or tender as well as all costs related to evaluation of tenders, including but not limited to field tests in Finland shall be totally at the Candidates or Tenderers expense and risk and no claims related to these costs can be submitted to the Contracting Authority. Should the procurement process be interrupted at any stage prior to a procurement decision, the Contracting Authority has no obligation whatsoever to indemnify any of the costs caused to the Candidates or Tenderers related to participating in the process.

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Start: 2026-09-01 End: 2027-12-31

LOT-0000: 1 tenders

LOT-0000: closed without a winner (Technical or procedural error)

Hilma notice number: 2026-059949 Procedure identifier: 940c9135-3c51-4fd8-a0fe-efa98139b2af eForms notice identifier: b66dbcf7-5d75-4962-997f-1615ea733dc0 Buyer's reference: RVLDNo-2026-1038 TED publication number: 730122-2026