The City of Alavus, the City of Alajärvi, the Municipality of Evijärvi, the Municipality of Kuortane, the Municipality of Lappajärvi, the Municipality of Soini, the Municipality of Vimpel and the City of Ähtäri are preparing a joint tender for the procurement of municipal transport services. In the joint tendering of school transport, the procurement of municipal bus and taxi services will be put out to tender. The tendered transport service procurements are divided into two main areas as follows: - Bus transport services - Taxi transport services - This pre-notification contains a request for information and an invitation to a market dialogue for both bus and taxi transport services. Both main areas may be the subject of separate contract notices. If the actual tendering of the procurement is carried out by means of two separate procurement notices, one concerning the tendering of bus and coach transport services and the other concerning the tendering of taxi transport services - however, the total estimated value of the procurement will be taken into account in the obligations of both procurements. Bus transport services and taxi transport services: In the case of bus and taxi transport services, the tendering procedure under preparation is a service procurement for transport services exceeding the EU threshold in accordance with the Procurement Act (Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts 1397/2016). The bus and taxi transport services that are the subject of the procurement are service procurements in accordance with the Procurement Act, the main CPV code of which is 60100000 - Road transport services and the procurement nomenclatures of the additional codes are 60112000 - Public transport services by road and 60120000 - Taxi services. The City of Alavus conducts the procurement procedure on its own behalf and on behalf of the other participating contracting entities, in accordance with Chapter 3, Section 21 of the Procurement Act (1397/2016). The City of Alavus acts as the coordinator of joint tendering. Each municipality, as an independent contracting entity, concludes its own contracts for its own procurements and acts as a subscriber to the service. This pre-notification has been published in the Public Procurement Notification Channel, Hilma and TED. The tendering process under preparation is to be carried out in an open procedure and the purpose is to allow partial tenders, in which case the tenderer may submit a tender for one or more tendering points. The intention is to allow mixed offers per municipality. A more detailed description of the subject-matter of the contract, which is in preparation, is mentioned in the section "Detailed information on the procedure - Additional information not mentioned elsewhere in the notice" of this pre-notification. This pre-notification informs potential tenderers about the launch of a competitive tendering procedure for a future procurement, possibly through an open procedure, during the first half of 2026. This pre-notification also launches a request for information and publishes an invitation to a market dialogue. The request for information and the market dialogue are part of the preparation and planning of the procurement. This prior information notice and the request for information and the invitation to the market dialogue do not constitute a contract notice and do not constitute an actual invitation to tender for a future procurement. The purpose of this pre-notification request for information and market dialogue is to map the market and initiate an open process of interaction between the City of Alavus, the City of Alajärvi, the Municipality of Evijärvi, the Municipality of Kuortane, the Municipality of Lappajärvi, the Municipality of Soini, the Municipality of Vimpel and the City of Ähtäri and potential bidders, and to review alternative views and proposals for tendering a procurement that meets the requirements. Participation in this request for information does not bind the tenderer to participate in the call for tenders and is not a condition for subsequent participation in the actual call for tenders. Failure to reply to this request for information does not exclude participation in a possible call for tenders. Responding to a request for information does not affect the position of the tenderer in the tender itself. Participation in the market dialogue does not bind the tenderer to participate in the call for tenders and is not a condition for subsequent participation in the actual call for tenders. Non-participation in the market dialogue does not exclude participation in any actual tendering procedure. Furthermore, participation in the market dialogue does not affect the position of the tenderer in the tender itself. In the market dialogue, it is possible to make comments and to have an open discussion with the officials preparing the procurement as well as with others present. The content of the request for information questionnaire will also be reviewed during the market dialogue. The findings of the information request survey and the market dialogue will be used to plan the competitive tendering and contract period of the future procurement. This pre-announced market dialogue will take place on 30 October 2025 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The market dialogue event will be held in the Huhtamaki Hall of the City of Alavus. Remote participation in the Teams environment is also possible. No separate registration is required. The Teams link for participation can be found on the website of the City of Alavus, in the News section, under the heading: "Market dialogue event on joint tendering for school transport, 30 October 2025". The City of Alavus, together with other contracting entities, has used the following experts in the preparation of the procurement: WayStep Consulting Oy, Henriika Weiste (henriika.weiste@waystep.fi); Novice Oy, Antti Savola (antti.savola@novice.fi). Experts from the above-mentioned companies are prevented from acting as advisers to tenderers during the tendering process. The questions in the request for information and the instructions for answering them are mentioned in the section "Detailed information on the procedure - Additional information not mentioned elsewhere in the notification".
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