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Acquisition of a new website for the City of Valkeakoski

Valkeakosken kaupungin verkkosivujen uudistuksen hankinta — original title

FIFinland · ValkeakoskiBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 20 November at 12:00 — 19 days left.
  2. You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The purpose of the procurement is to design and implement a new web service package for the City of Valkeakoski's WordPress platform, as well as the maintenance and operation services for the implemented package. The set of online services to be procured is described in the tender documentation.,

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published19 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

72 · IT services
CPV 72000000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 20% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (36 awards since 2018, spread over 14 companies). That is well below the sector norm (48%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 36 awards since 2018
  • The median procedure drew 4 bids (32 procedures with a bid count); 16% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 32
  • 8% of awards went to companies from abroad (36 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 36

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.
Too big for you alone? Consortium or reliance on capacity: a partner's references and turnover count (Art. 63 Dir. 2014/24) — cross-border too.

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Tilausliikenne Hanki Oy (1014062-1)//Valkeakosken Liikenne Oy32019–2023
Kodin palveluverkko Oy22021
Veekmas Oy22020
SITOWISE OY22021
Kyocera Document Solutions Finland Oy22020
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.
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Deadline — Friday 20 November at 12:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 2,996 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 32 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). A normal window for this market.

Foreign bidders

In Finland · IT services, 51 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 4,856 recorded awards) — mostly from France, United States, Germany.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on Hilma. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via Hilma before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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