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FIFinland · KotkaBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

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Deadline: 13 November at 23:59 — 13 days left.
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What the buyer is looking for

With this invitation to tender, the Kotka-Hamina Regional Council for Education (Ekami) requests an offer for a used lorry for driving licence and professional qualification training on the Malming campus with a 0 device, a tail lift and a foot container. The truck offered must be of model year 2024 or later, and it must have been inspected in 2026. The price estimate for the purchase is max 99 900 €, VAT 0%. Detailed specifications are listed in this call for tenders. The procurement is carried out in accordance with the general terms and conditions of public procurement JYSE 2025 TAVARAT, to the extent not otherwise specified in the tender documents.,

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

Contract

BuyerKotkan - Haminan seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä

TypeSupplies

Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures

Published30 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment

CPV 34140000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

36% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (12 awards since 2018, spread over 7 companies). That is well below the sector norm (51%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 12 awards since 2018
The median procedure drew 4 bids (7 procedures with a bid count); 0% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 7
8% of awards went to companies from abroad (12 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 3%.n = 12

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

In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (1,537 with a known bid count), usually only 2 offers came in — a solid bid has real chances.

References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

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.

Company	Awards	Period
STSEC Ky	2	2025
SOL Palvelut Oy · HELSINGFORS	2	2025
Medanta Oy	2	2023
Raskaspari Oy	2	2026
If Vahinkovakuutus Oyj, Suomen sivuliike · ESBO	1	2021

From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

2022

2023

2026

17 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Deadline — Friday 13 November at 23:59

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 1,537 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 14 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

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Foreign bidders

In Finland · Transport equipment, 44 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,978 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Denmark.

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

How to bid

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