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Electric articulated buses and their care agreement for Plusbus traffic
Sähkökäyttöiset nivellinja-autot ja niiden huolenpitosopimus Plusbussi-liikenteeseen — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 13 November at 16:00 — 13 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
Based on an open procurement procedure, Tampereen Kaupunkiliikenne Oy requests tenders for twenty-two (22) new electric articulated buses in accordance with this invitation to tender and its annexes, including the offer price for the car care contract for the contract period (option service 10+5 years) in accordance with this invitation to tender and its annexes. The contracting entity is not obliged to accept the tender for the maintenance contract, but the customer may also purchase the offered cars from the selected contract supplier without a maintenance contract. Two (2) additional cars, the purchase of which will be decided by 28 February 2027, and as a second option ten (10) additional cars, the purchase of which will be decided by 31 December 2033. The operation of the vehicles will start from 7.8.2028 or according to a later date specified by the traffic subscriber. One car will…
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… be delivered to the contracting entity for training use by 1.5.2028. The other cars (excluding the option of 10 additional cars) will be delivered to the contracting entity from the beginning of August 2028.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 6 bids (7 procedures with a bid count); 0% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 7
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tilitoimisto Aarnio Oy | 2 | 2026 |
| Protector Forsikring ASA, Suomen sivuliike | 1 | 2025 |
| Suomen Euromaster Oy (0711042-1)//Lapin Kumi Oy (19456913)//Vianor Oy (1463013-4)//Suomen Euromaster Oy (0711042-1)//Lapin Kumi Oy (19456913)//Vianor Oy (1463013-4)//Suomen Euromaster Oy (0711042-1)//Lapin Kumi Oy (19456913)//Vianor Oy (1463013-4)//Suomen Euromaster Oy (0711042-1)//Lapin Kumi Oy (19 | 1 | 2025 |
| LähiTapiola Keskinäinen Vakuutusyhtiö (0211034-2)//Protector Forsikring ASA, Suomen sivuliike | 1 | 2025 |
| LähiTapiola Keskinäinen Vakuutusyhtiö · LOKALTAPIOLA | 1 | 2025 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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 31 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,452 procedures). A normal window for this market.
Foreign bidders
In Finland · Transport equipment, 44 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,977 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Denmark.
Submission language: Finnish.
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