Nordic City Solutions in North America

Nordic City Solutions is a public-private platform, facilitated by the five Nordic governments of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden through their Trade Promotion Organizations in North America.

The ambition of Nordic City Solutions is to connect Nordic experts in the realm of healthy, resilient and smart cities with project procurement opportunities in North American through the facilitation of a range of activities with Strategic Partners over the course of 2019 and 2020.

The following request for solutions is part of a Strategic Partnership with the Ryan Company, the City of Saint Paul and the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce based on alignment of both the Nordic strengths around sustainability and upcoming project opportunities within the United States.

Request for Nordic Solutions in Minnesota

The Ryan Company and the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota are requesting solutions from Nordic suppliers in order to enhance the sustainability, livability and future of the Ford Development site located in Saint Paul, MN.

Background documents available for download: https://um.sharefile.eu/d-s2d24b3e8f5440788

Nordic companies are requested to submit solutions based for consideration in procurement based on the following areas and timelines…

Request for Solutions - Horizontal Infrastructure

Request for Solutions - Vertical Infrastructure

Next Steps with Nordic City Solutions opportunities in Minnesota

Relevant solutions to the requested procurement opportunities should be submitted to your Nordic trade promotion organization representative and forwarded to Nordic City Solutions programme manager Pamela Tiller (pamtil@um.dk) by the deadline identified on the table. Solutions submitted after the deadline are not guaranteed for consideration.

Relevant solutions will be reviewed and submitted to the developer for consideration.

Successful solutions providers will be invited by Nordic City Solutions to participate in further workshops and opportunities in St. Paul and Minneapolis in Q4 2019 (dates to be confirmed).

Nordic City Solution is a trade promotion platform supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Innovation and the five Nordic Trade Promotion organizations. Associated costs to participate in trade activities are 50% subsidized by the Nordic governments and are in place to cover time spent to organize and execute on trade platform activities – finding the best partners in the North American market. Successful proponents will be asked to contribute through membership to Nordic City Solutions annual platform of activities or through an ad-hoc payment per event.