FTN gives notice for procurements of Nordic large-cap equity funds and Nordic small-cap equity funds

FTN is today announcing two parallel procurements. The first procurement is for actively managed equity funds with a main investment focus on Nordic large and mid-cap companies. The second procurement is for actively managed equity funds with a main investment focus on Nordic small-cap companies.

There are 11 Nordic equity funds with a primary focus on large and mid-cap companies on the fund platform today. The pension savers have a total capital of just over SEK 9 billion invested in these funds.* FTN intends to procure a maximum of four funds in the category.

Currently five funds on the fund platform are categorised as Nordic small-cap equity funds. The pension savers have a total capital of just under SEK 9 billion invested in these funds.* FTN intends to procure a maximum of four funds in the category of Nordic small cap funds.

"Improve fund offering as quickly as possible"
In connection with the notice of the procurements, the fund agreements for the affiliated funds affected by the procurements will be terminated. However, the funds will continue to be available on the fund platform until the procurements are completed and funds that have been awarded fund agreements replace the affiliated funds.
"Our aim is to improve the fund offering for pension savers as quickly as possible. Currently, we are already on procurement four and five. Simultaneously, we are working to further develop our processes to ensure efficiency for both us and the tenderers", says Erik Fransson, executive director of FTN.

In March, FTN published preliminary procurement specifications for the two procurements that are now being announced. This is to give the market the opportunity to submit comments and prepare for the procurements. The procurement specifications now published contains no significant differences compared to the preliminary specifications.

Important that tenders are complete
The notice of procurements, which takes place today on 29th April 2024, means that fund managers can submit tenders, which must be received by FTN no later than 10th June 2024 digitally via the procurement platform e-Avrop. Participation requires the payment of a tender fee, which must be paid at the latest when the tender is submitted. Fund managers wishing to participate in both tenders must submit separate tenders.

In order for tender to be evaluated by FTN, the fund and the fund manager must fulfil the requirements in the procurement as well as general requirements, and the tender submitted must be complete and accurate. To ensure equal treatment of all potential tenderers, no information related to the ongoing procurements will be shared separately with individual tenderers. Fund managers have the opportunity to ask questions about the procurements via e-Avrop until 31st May 2024.

Further information can be found in the procurement documentation.

Tenders:

• Must be submitted via the procurement platform e-Avrop: www.e-avrop.com External link.
  A registration in e-Avrop is required to be able to submit a tender in the procurements.
• The deadline for submission of a tender is 10-06-2024 23:59 (CET).
• Questions and answers in the procurement process are handled via e-avrop.com.
  

Please note that documents received by an authority, such as tenders, are public documents and may therefore be disclosed in their entirety if someone requests access to them. However, information protected by confidentiality is not disclosed. It is therefore important that the fund manager clarifies which parts of the material submitted in the tender should be covered by confidentiality and describes in what way the fund manager would suffer harm if the information were disclosed. However, FTN will make an independent confidentiality assessment which in turn may ultimately be reviewed by a court.

*Assets and number of savers as of 2024-03-31