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Small batches of food for the Savonlinna parish

Elintarvikkeiden pienet erät Savonlinnan seurakunnalle — original title

FIFinland · Savonlinna

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 10 November at 12:00 — 9 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 procurement services of the City of Savonlinna ask you to submit a tender for the delivery of small batches of food to the Savonlinna parish for an indefinite contract period. The contract period begins on 1 January 2027 and is valid until further notice with a notice period of 6 months. It must be possible for the customer to determine the number of products he has ordered, in which case both small and larger quantities are also possible. The products are unpacked from their transport packaging and the supplier takes the transport boxes and rolls with him in accordance with the responsible and correct recycling of materials. The procurement model is a procurement contract of one (1) supplier, in which the customer will place orders directly from the selected supplier. Orders are executed as needed. During the contract period, no minimum order quantities will be committed and only…

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… the amount allowed by the available budget will be purchased. The quantities mentioned in the invitation to tender are indicative estimates and do not bind the subscriber.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published12 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

15 · Food & beverages
CPV 15800000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 24% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (187 awards since 2017, spread over 118 companies). 76% went to new names.n = 187 awards since 2017
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (146 procedures with a bid count); 18% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 146
  • 2% of awards went to companies from abroad (187 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 187

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.

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

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
Savonlinja Oy132020–2025
Linja-autoliike S.Kosonen Oy72018–2026
Sioma Oy52021–2025
Opinsys Oy42022–2024
Savonlinnan LVI-Palvelu Oy42021–2025
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
2020
1
2021
2
2025
6
2026
10 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Tuesday 10 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 481 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 30 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 · Food & beverages, 5 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 585 recorded awards).

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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