Defence Minister Jussi Niinistö Authorised
the Finnish Defence Forces' Logistics Command to Send An Invitation to
Negotiate and A Preliminary Invitation to Tender for the Squadron 2020 Project
Defence Minister Jussi Niinistö authorised,
on 13th June 2017, the Finnish Defence Forces' Logistics Command to send an
invitation to negotiate and a preliminary invitation to tender to three
supplier candidates for the Squadron 2020 project: Atlas Elektronik GmbH,
Germany; Lockheed Martin Canada Inc, Canada; and Saab Ab, Sweden.
The battle system to be delivered will
consist of weapons, sensors, and command and control systems and their
integration into vessels. The Ministerial Committee on Economic Policy was in
favour of sending the invitation to negotiate and the preliminary invitation to
tender.
The first round of negotiations will be
conducted in the course of 2017 and the deadline to submit a preliminary tender
is in autumn 2017. The second round of negotiations will be started already at
the end of 2017 and it will be continued in winter 2018.
The final round of tenders and the signing of
the agreement will take place during 2018.
At the end of last year, the Finnish Defence
Forces' Logistics Command sent requests to 12 companies to participate in the
tender procedure to deliver the battle system for the Squadron 2020 vessels.
Eight companies sent a request to participate; of these, three were selected
for the next stage.
The Logistics Command evaluated the requests
in cooperation with the Navy, the Defence Command and the Ministry of Defence
and an external actor verified the independent nature and quality of the
request procedure.
The following criteria were applied to select
the companies: integration expertise, technical competence, project competence,
commercial and legal requirements, life cycle expertise, industrial
cooperation, quality and safety.
Minister Niinistö has now decided to
establish an obligation of industrial cooperation for the Squadron 2020
project. The decision includes grounds for establishing the obligation and it
supports the central objective in materiel policy: to ensure military security
of supply in all situations.
The obligation aims at ensuring that the
domestic defence industry is an integrated part of Finland’s defence and
security of supply while also promoting international cooperation of defence
industries.
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Source: defensenews-alert.blogspot.com
Squadron 2020
Source: defmin.fi
The Defence Forces has launched a project to
buy surface combatants to replace the Navy's capabilities which will become
outdated in the 2020s. The new vessels are expected to be capable of
territorial integrity surveillance, securing vital sea lines of communication
and deterring attacks from the sea.
To be able to carry out these tasks, the
vessels have to be able to monitor maritime areas above and under the water
surface and in the air space and to use weapons to counter potential threats
from enemy forces. The exact
configuration of the battle system will be decided in the course of planning
but at least sea mines and missiles are likely to be included in the main
weapon systems.
The vessels are designed primarily for the
needs of national defence and it is vital that they can operate also in winter
conditions; they are expected to navigate through ice-covered waters. In addition, they could be used for
international crisis management. At this point the plan is to construct four
vessels.
The life-cycle of six current surface
combatants will end by mid-2020s; these include Rauma-class fast attack missile
crafts and Hämeenlinna-class minelayers. Minelayer Pohjanmaa was decommissioned
already in 2013. The life-cycle of the vessels to be decommissioned cannot be
extended in a cost-efficient way.
The Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command
will send requests for information (RFI) to potential suppliers.
The planning phase of the project is
2015-2018 and construction is scheduled to start in 2019. Building these
capabilities requires a funding of over billion euros. Source: defmin.fi
Squadron 2020 - The Finnish Defence Forces’
strategic project PDF: HERE
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