The Finnish Border Guard has launched an eight-hour-old procurement notice for a digital asset-management system capable of storing and analysing high-resolution photos, video and audio on the government’s TUVE classified network. The call for participation, published on 24 September 2026 in the Hilma public-procurement portal and mirrored on Hanketori, invites vendors to submit expressions of interest by 14 October. According to the tender, the system must support granular user-rights management, real-time usage analytics and scalable storage to accommodate “continuously growing material.” Border-guard investigators currently rely on disparate local drives to catalogue evidence from drones, body-cams and surveillance towers along Finland’s 1 340-kilometre land border—an approach officials say hampers rapid intelligence sharing with EU partners. The four-year framework agreement—renewable indefinitely thereafter—forms part of Finland’s broader push to digitalise border-security workflows ahead of the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) go-live. The chosen supplier will be required to install the platform on Border Guard servers; cloud-hosting is ruled out for security reasons. For technology providers specialising in secure content management, the deal offers a rare foothold in Finland’s highly regulated defence-and-security market. Companies with existing ISO 27001 and Katakri compliance credentials are expected to have an edge when short-listing begins in November. From a mobility standpoint, enhanced media handling is likely to accelerate the adjudication of illegal-entry cases and cross-border crime investigations—potentially shortening residence-permit screening times for bona-fide travellers while tightening the net on document fraud.
