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Catering services for home use
Kotiin vietävät ateriapalvelut — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 5 November at 16:00 — 5 days left.
- You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: Finnish.
- Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
What the buyer is looking for
The Central Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county requests an offer for home catering services in the following municipalities of the Central Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county: Halsua, Kannus, Kokkola, Lestijärvi, Perho, Toholampi and Veteli. The contract is limited in time and valid for two (2) years from the start of the contract. The Subscriber is also entitled to two (2) separately decided option periods of one (1) year. The estimated start date of the contract is 1 February 2027. The target of the procurement is home meals delivered cold to the customers of the Central Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county. This is a support service in accordance with Section 19 of the Social Welfare Act (1301/2014). As a rule, home care clients are elderly people who often have reduced physical functional capacity and/or memory loss and who still manage independently in their own familiar…
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… living environment, for example through catering services. The clients also include front veterans and war invalids, as well as clients covered by informal care allowance. The service to be procured includes the preparation of meals, transportation and everything else related to that process. The amount of service purchased may vary during the contract period. The contract does not include an obligation on the Customer to make a final purchase. The subject of the contract is specified in more detail in the invitation to tender and its annexes.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 7 bids (81 procedures with a bid count); 7% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 81
- 18% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (100 awards since 2022, spread over 76 companies). That is well below the sector norm (35%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 100 awards since 2022
- The award came in at a median 88% of the estimated value (11 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here.n = 11
- 2% of awards went to companies from abroad (100 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 0%.n = 100
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.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SOL Palvelut Oy (2160299-1)//LT Siivous Oy (3155982-7)//Cleaning Design Oy | 4 | 2023–2026 |
| Suomen Terveystalo Oy · HELSINGFORS | 3 | 2023–2025 |
| STSEC Ky | 2 | 2024 |
| Lakeuden Sprinkleri Oy | 2 | 2024 |
| If Vahinkovakuutus Oyj, Suomen sivuliike · ESBO | 2 | 2023 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 494 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 29 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 · Hotel & restaurant services, 1 contract went to a foreign company over the last 3 years (of 666 recorded awards).
Submission language: Finnish.
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