Aerial surveillance of forest fires 2027 Northern Finland

The object of the procurement is the following flights described in chapter 2.1 Flight tasks, communications and costs of the Metsäpalo flight surveillance instructions in appendix 2 of the request for tenders: - self-initiated observation flights, - other flights decided by the state rescue authority (such as training flights), - smoke detection inspection flights, - flood damage intelligence/surveillance flights, - storm damage intelligence/surveillance flights, - oil damage intelligence/surveillance flights, and - control flights of extinguishing operations. The flight operational requirements for forest fire observation flights are stipulated in the Aviation Act (864/2014) and the regulations of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, e.g. aviation regulation OPS M1-34. Forest fire monitoring is a statutory task of the Ministry of the Interior, which the service provider produces on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior. The tenderer undertakes to perform surveillance flights while the wildfire warning is in effect. See on the maintenance of readiness, chapter 2.2 of the instructions for aerial surveillance of forest fires in appendix 2 of the request for tenders, and appendix 7 of the instructions for aerial surveillance of forest fires Readiness. In addition, the subject of the acquisition are other rescue operations flights that the customer separately needs, which can be, for example, mapping or research flights and