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Remote digital newspaper and magazine service

Etäkäyttöinen digitaalinen sanoma- ja aikakauslehtipalvelu — original title

FIFinland · Helsingin yliopisto

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 3 November at 12:00 — 2 days left.
  2. You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Offer and evidence in: Finnish.
  4. 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 object of the procurement is a remote digital newspaper and magazine service, which includes a collection of magazines and a user interface for the use, browsing, searching and reading of newspapers and magazines in accordance with the requirements specification common to all subscriber units, as well as related support services. The user identification of the service is done with IP addresses or a library card and password. For a more detailed description of the subject of the contract, see Annex 1 "Description of the subject of the contract" to the invitation to tender. This acquisition is part of the FinELib consortium's data acquisition. Subscriber units are public libraries, universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes that are members of the consortium. All subscriber units are listed in Annex 7. One (1) service provider will be selected on the basis…

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… of competitive tendering and will be responsible as a whole for the provision of a remote digital newspaper and magazine service. The contract period is two (2) years. The procuring entity has the right to extend the contract for a maximum option period of two (2) years under the terms of the contract. See also the "Permanent contract" chapter of the contract attached as Annex A to the invitation to tender. The estimated value of the acquisition is between EUR 915 000 and EUR 1 090 000 (VAT 0%), including the option period. The maximum value of the contract is EUR 1 090 000 (VAT 0 %). The figures are based on estimates of the use of the framework agreement provided by the subscriber units. The maximum value of the framework agreement has been calculated for 4 years.

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published2 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Framework agreement

Type of service

72 · IT services22 · Printed matter
CPV 72320000 · 22200000
Clement
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Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Finnish.

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex 1
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration
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Administrative conditions
The full notice, official wording

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Tuesday 3 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 33 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.

Submission language: Finnish.

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 TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.
This procedure is published on 2 portals
Bids are submitted on Hilma — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeHilmaSubmission portal
Put together the evidence — in Finnish
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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