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Procurement of waste services - Kotka

Jätepalveluiden hankinta - Kotka — original title

FIFinland · KotkaBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 11 November at 11:00 — 10 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

Procurement of waste services - Kotka The invitation to tender concerns the delivery of waste services to eight different sites to be purchased for Kotka's public properties. The duration of the service contract will be fixed-term for the first year, after which the contract will continue for an indefinite period, 3 months at a time.,

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

Contract

BuyerKotkan Julkiset Kiinteistöt Oy
TypeServices
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published20 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

90 · Cleaning, environment & waste34 · Transport equipment42 · Industrial machinery14 · Mining & minerals
CPV 90512000 · 34928480 · 34144511 · 42996200 · 34144512 · 14900000 · 14910000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 44% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (10 awards since 2024, spread over 6 companies). 56% went to new names.n = 10 awards since 2024
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (8 procedures with a bid count); 25% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 8
  • Not one of the 10 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 1%.n = 10

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
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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
nollaE Oy42024–2026
Lotus Demolition Oy22026
Kotkan Merityö Oy12025
Kotkan Merityö Oy (2133925-7)//Kotkan Sora Ky (0159663-5)//Tmi A. P. Hovi12025
Kotkan Sora Ky12025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

1
2024
2
2025
1
2026
4 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.
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Deadline — Wednesday 11 November at 11:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 4 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 22 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

Among 3,029 recorded awards in Finland · Cleaning, environment & waste over 3 years, no foreign winner yet — bidding here means being a pioneer.

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
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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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