The aim of the procurement is to build up a RDI laboratory environment for education, research and development located in Oulu. The laboratory environment enables high quality testing and development of new powertrain technologies for heavy duty vehicles in controlled environmental conditions. From the project Kylymä a financing application has been filed which is why the procurement contract will be signed when the financing decision has arrived at the contracting entity (approximately 3-4/2020).

Oulu University of Applied Sciences is implementing a laboratory for heavy duty vehicles that provides environmentally controlled testing environment including power train dynamometers. Because of that 2 projects — Kylymä and Mobilab are having strong connection. Further, both projects are going to be implemented in parallel and that requires fluent co-operation between all selected parties.

Requirements of procurements: tämä, liite 1 — toinen, liite x In Finland there is a strong expertise for heavy duty vehicles, forestry and mining machines. Also, ICT industry is remarkable and this expertise brings new possibilities to create more efficient solutions. Oulu is the only area in Finland in which the education for automotive and machinery is carried out from the vocational education to engineering and research education. With this procurement the educational environment for the heavy duty machines is strengthened. Research activities for the development of future technologies requires up-to-date environment. The laboratory includes environmentally controlled heavy duty vehicle testing unit for powertrain systems. Turnkey construction of the environmental controlled test chamber according to the requirement specification document is needed for the following reasons:

— testing activities are supposed to start immediately after the test chamber has passed the final acceptance tests on the installation site,

— the budget for the procurement is 1 245 000 EUR (VAT 0 %). It includes the implementation and testing of the new Mobilab test chamber,

— with turnkey construction the functionability of the test chamber is confirmed: total delivery, product support, extensibility,

— responsibility of the functionality of the system is provided by the supplier.

The Mobilab RDI environment is meant for:

— research and testing for the research organizations,

— new product development for the companies — education — improving the technology awareness to ensure full compatibility, safety, conformity with machine directive and to avoid parallel systems the tenderer shall provide comprehensive integration plan. OUAS is not capable for executing the integration.